Grants and Program Allocation Recommendations

b. $130,712 over 20 months to Ryerson University to develop a methodology for calculating the embodied carbon of building enclosure assemblies for Part 3 buildings and to create guidelines and reference tools to support design teams in meeting embodied carbon targets in municipal development standards. 2. Declined six grant requests with a total value of $822,603, as set out in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 24, 2021) from the Grants Manager, Toronto Atmospheric Fund. 3. Approved the following project allocation to be funded jointly from the Canada, Ontario and City of Toronto endowments: a. $100,000 over 12 months to Toronto Atmospheric Fund (TAF)'s Retrofit Accelerator team to support Toronto Community Housing in implementing their building portfolio decarbonization program. Funding will enable TAF to develop a deep retrofit planning tool, create an aggregated procurement strategy, and to pilot the use of artificial intelligence to optimize building performance. 4. Directed that the confidential information contained in Confidential Attachment 1 to the report (June 24, 2021) from the Grants Manager, Toronto Atmospheric Fund remain confidential in its entirety, as it contains financial information supplied in confidence to the Toronto Atmospheric Fund, which, if disclosed, could reasonably be expected to prejudice significantly the competitive position or interfere significantly with the contractual or other negotiations of a person, group of persons, or organization.