A Net-Zero Building Codes Acceleration Fund will accelerate code adoption and compliance through support for market readiness for net-zero codes. Authored by Kevin Lockhart.
In this blog, we look at some of the core considerations for policymakers as they seek to design and implement the building blocks of an effective Minimum Energy Performance Standards. Authored by Kevin Lockhart.
This letter constitutes the comments of Efficiency Canada and the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP) on the Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) May 2021 technical bulletin on amending the standards for appliances.
Green Development Standards (GDS) can act as a low-cost, effective way to act on the the climate emergency. Authored by Kevin Lockhart.
We are writing to ask you to approve recommendation A, B, and C in the report, which will help reduce building permit delays, and vote down recommendation D which proposes a one-year delay in implementing the city’s Climate Emergency Action Plan requirement that new homes be built with zero emissions heating and hot water requirements.