Regulating Energy and Emissions in Existing Buildings
Efficiency Canada’s new guide offers municipalities and policymakers insights into the role existing buildings are expected to play in meeting Canada’s decarbonization goals.
What Municipalities Need to Know about Canada’s Net-Zero Emissions Building Codes
What Municipalities Need to Know about Canada’s Net-Zero Emissions Building Codes shows how to use the upcoming net-zero emissions codes as a lever to accelerate climate action.
The Municipal Guide to Net-Zero Energy Ready Building Codes
The Municipal Guide to Net-Zero Energy Ready Building Codes contains everything you need to understand tiered codes, the advantages of adopting an ambitious tier, and how municipalities can use the new codes to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Canada’s Climate Retrofit Mission
Retrofitting our buildings at the scale and performance required to confront climate change calls for market re-shaping innovations. This report defines a climate retrofit mission for Canada and proposes a way to organize the public sector to achieve it.
Strengthening Canada’s Building Code Process
REPORT Strengthening Canada’s Building Code Process This report examines how the development of the 2020 model national energy codes navigated this tension between a minimum standard building energy code and an implicit goal within the PCF to promote market...
Tiered Energy Codes Best Practices for Code Compliance
Building codes are established by law in the provinces or territories in which the building will be constructed. Compliance with code falls in the purview of the city or municipality, known as the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ). The AHJs must enforce
the safety, accessibility, and other objectives of code for new buildings, which requires knowledgeable resources in multiple technical disciplines. Adding in energy codes has presented some challenges for AHJs, let alone adding in potentially multiple tiers of energy compliance.