Enabling Tiered Codes

To help prepare the industry for future building codes, CHBA has launched a 3-year project called ‘Enabling Tiered Codes – Implementation and Market Preparedness.’ The project is funded by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) under the Codes Acceleration Fund (CAF), which is part of the federal government’s Green Buildings Strategy to accelerate innovation in making Canada’s buildings more affordable, efficient, comfortable, and resilient.

The objective of the project is to support efforts to help enable the residential construction industry to effectively adopt forthcoming high-performance building codes, including the highest feasible energy performance tiers of the national model energy codes or other high-performance building codes, such as net-zero emissions codes, by building industry capacity. The project will also inform the building code process, as it looks at buildability, costs and other hurdles that need to be overcome for successful implementation.

Read the full press release here.

 

Project Tasks

Under this project, the following efforts will be undertaken:

• Multiple Net Zero Ready “Builder Option Packages” (NZr BOPs) will be developed to provide builders and Energy Advisors various performance-based options to build homes to Net Zero Ready. We’re exploring the opportunity to include options for both operational emissions (opGHGs) and embodied emissions (emGHGs) as well as resilience packages with measures to address high wind, hail, fire, and flood.
• In addition to developing new training on Section 9.36 for builders, we will offer rebates and discounts for the net zero training courses during this project. Information on these training incentives will be shared through CHBA’s e-publications as well as posted on our website here.

To provide insight and guidance to accomplish this work, an expert Emissions & Resilience Working Group has been established to inform the development of both operational and embodied carbon emissions programming within the voluntary CHBA Net Zero Home Labelling Program, as well as resilience best practices to protect homes against extreme weather events due to climate change. Members have been selected for their demonstrated competence and experience in the fields of building emissions reductions and resilience/adaption, while ensuring a diverse geographic representation.

Emissions & Resilience Working Group (ERWG)

Builder Members

Avalon Master Builder, Mark Lindenbach (CO-CHAIR)

Minto Communities, Charles Boechler (CO-CHAIR)

Doug Tarry Homes, Jamie Yolkowskie

Glenview Homes, Pat Daniels

J.Zsiros Contracting, Jim Zsiros

Josh Friesen, Dueck Builders

Mattamy Homes, Phil Santana

Sterling Homes – Edmonton, Kelly Williams

thinkBright Homes, Meredith Hamstead

Wilden Construction Corp, Joshua Smith

 

Non-Builder Members

4 Elements Integrated Design, Hayley Puppato

BC Hydro, Gary Hamer

Bernhardt Contracting, Tom Giltenan

Builders for Climate Action, Chris Magwood

Canadian Wood Council, Natasha Jeremic / Sarah Stevenson / Noah Fetterly

Carbon Wise, Elisabeth Baudinaud

Carleton University, Scott Bucking

Enbridge Gas, Cora Carriveau,

Homesol Building Solutions, Stephen Magneron

Mantle Developments, Marco A. Rico Thirion

 

Ex-officio Non-voting Members

BC Housing, Wilma Leung

Building Knowledge Canada, Mark Rosen / Alexis Minniti / Scott Schrier

CanmetENERGY LEEP, Stefanie Coleman

CanmetENERGY, Hamish Pope

CHBA-BC, Pauline Rupp

CHBA-NB, Claudia Simmonds

City of Guelph, Patrick Andres

City of Ottawa, Marie Hanchet

EnerQuality, Luis Carvalheiro

ICLR, Dan Sandink

NRC, Marzieh Riahinezhad / Luminita Dumitrascu

NRCan-CCIAD, Kelly Montgomery / Nick Theriault

NRCan-OEE, Alexandre Bigonesse

OHBA, Miyoko Oikawa

Volta Research, Leigh St. Hilaire