Toronto Moving Ahead on Building Performance Standards: What You Need to Know
Toronto is joining other major North American cities in mandating building performance standards.
Unlocking the Potential of Mandatory Building Performance Standards through Benchmarking
Explore solutions to enhance benchmarking adoption, drawing on lessons from other jurisdictions.
Making the case: Why we need Mandatory Building Performance Standards in Canada
Ambitious action on the part of Canada’s sub-national governments will ensure that all stakeholders in the buildings sector — including governments, industry and the workforce — have a clear and stable regulatory path forward, one that allows them to plan for future code requirements while investing in Canada’s net-zero future.
Provincial and Territorial Tiered Energy Code Adoption Landscape
To make new buildings climate-ready and affordable, provinces and territories should use the tiered code framework as intended by graduating to higher levels of building performance.
Cutting emissions in the buildings sector through Canada’s national model codes
Supported by the sector, a national model code objective has been put forward that recognizes the impact of operational and embodied carbon emissions throughout the buildings’ lifecycle. This change could open the door for building code provisions that limit or reduce emissions from building operations as well as construction materials.
What the new Federal Green Building Strategy could look like (part two)
In part one, we examined five high level themes that could help guide Canada’s new federal Green Building Strategy. Part two will examine specific policies and policy frameworks that the Strategy must consider to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.