Enabling Tiered Codes
Implementation and Market Preparedness
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.
Training Rebates
To support the project objective of building industry competency, CHBA is offering $330 rebates for most courses. Please note that the rebates are only available to CHBA members who pass the exam. Click on the button below to see which courses are eligible and to register.
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
Dueck Builders, Josh Friesen
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
For more information about this project, please contact:
Brett Cass
Technical Manager,
Net Zero Energy Housing
613.230.3060 x233
Brett.Cass@chba.ca