Transition Planning Now Workshop: Calgary

Canada’s building and real estate sector is facing a convergence of forces that is fundamentally reshaping how buildings are planned, financed, and managed. Tightening regulations, rising climate risk, capital constraints, and growing pressure to future-proof assets are driving a shift away from short-term value creation toward long-term financial and operational resilience.

As a result, transition planning, historically viewed primarily as an Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) or regulatory compliance exercise, is rapidly being adopted as a core business strategy in commercial real estate. Owners and investors are increasingly using transition plans to guide capital allocation decisions for building retrofits, repositioning, reuse, and redevelopment.

A well-constructed transition plan provides a cost-effective pathway to improve asset value and operational performance, while lowering carbon emissions, mitigating climate-related risks, and supporting compliance with evolving building codes such as the National Energy Code for Buildings (NECB), with other energy regulations, benchmarking, and building performance standards. However, uncertainty around return on investment, financing hurdles, regional regulatory variation, and rapidly evolving technologies have made transition planning a complicated puzzle to solve, especially at the portfolio level.

As owner demand for clarity grows, transition planning is quickly becoming a core competency for architects, engineers, and consultants advising on real estate asset strategies and solutions.

In response to these growing pressures and complexities, CAGBC is launching a series of transition planning workshops with support from RDH Building Science Inc.

Hosted by CAGBC in Vancouver, Montréal, Toronto and Calgary, the limited series of Transition Planning Now Workshops aim to enhance sector confidence and foster increased collaboration among architects, engineers, sustainability consultants, and building owners to implement feasible and actionable transition plans.

Facilitated by a multidisciplinary team of professionals from RDH, the sessions will feature scenario-based training and emphasize peer-to-peer collaborations.