本文讨论了深层整栋建筑改造的创意元素，阐明了有效行动的关键插入点。它讨论了过程和技术、如何选择合适的建筑、必须参与的关键参与者、设计团队必须完成的项目开发任务，以及工程师需要获得的工具和技能，以全面、经济高效地改造现有商业建筑存量。建筑改造的设计必须比过去更深入，节约更多能源，以实现潜在的碳减排。整个建筑的改造不仅仅是照明或制冷机的更换。工程师们需要扩展他们的技能，将重点放在能够在避免资本成本的情况下提高效率的减载措施上，这被称为“穿越成本壁垒的隧道”。 工程师通过估算精心设计的一揽子措施的碳节约和生命周期成本，为所有权决策提供信息。本文描述了通过平衡预测的运营成本节约和减少碳产量来帮助明智决策的工具。通过这种方式，设计团队可以实现深度全面的建筑改造，从而显著减少碳排放。在气候稳定的背景下，改造现有建筑是建筑业面临的最大挑战之一。工程师在应对这一挑战方面有着越来越大的机会和作用。引文:ASHRAE会议论文，2010年，第116卷，pt。新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基2号

This paper discusses creative elements of deep whole building retrofits, articulating key insertion points for effective action. It discusses process and technique, how to select suitable buildings, the key players that must be involved, the project development tasks the design team must complete, and the tools and skills that engineers will need to acquire to participate in comprehensively and cost-effectively retrofitting existing commercial building stock.Building retrofits must be designed to be deeper and save more energy than they have in the past to achieve their potential carbon emission reductions. Wholebuilding retrofits are more than lighting or chiller replacements. Engineers need to expand their skill sets to focus on load reduction measures that allow for efficiency improvements with avoided capital costs, referred to as “tunneling through the cost barrier.” Engineers inform ownership decisions by estimating the carbon savings and life cycle cost of carefully designed packages of measures. This paper describes tools for assisting wise decision-making by balancing predicted operational cost savings and reduced carbon production. In this manner, design teams can achieve deep comprehensive building retrofits that provide significant carbon reduction.Retrofitting existing buildings is one of the largest challenges facing the building industry in the context of climate stabilization. Engineers have an expanding opportunity and role to play in rising to this challenge.