1. Jane Smith President, For Part 3 Buildings Month XX, 2019
Company Name Here

2. The teps: Part 3 Wood Buildings
The BC Energy Step Code is a performance standard that is designed to drive steady increases in energy efficiency in new construction.
Local governments in the province may use it, if they wish, to incentivize or require a level of energy efficiency in new construction that would exceed the minimum requirements specified in the BC Building Code.
It is not a stand-alone code, but rather is embedded within the British Columbia Building Code.

3. The Provincial Context
Federal Policy Context
August 2017
“Federal, provincial, and territorial governments will work to develop and adopt increasingly stringent model building codes, starting in 2020, with the goal that [all] adopt a net-zero energy-ready model building code by 2030.”
In 2017 the Government of Canada released Build Smart: Canada’s Buildings Strategy

4. The Provincial Context
Provincial Policy Context
December 2018
In December 2018, the province released its Clean BC strategy, which reaffirmed the Net Zero Energy Ready target and established new interim deadlines.
First deadline is 2022, when new homes must perform 20 percent better than those built to the requirements of the 2018 BC Building Code.
There is a subsequent deadline in 2027.

5. The Provincial Context The Provincial Context
Roadmap to Net-Zero Energy-Ready Buildings
The Provincial Context
The Provincial Context
First deadline is 2022, when new homes must perform 20 percent better than those built to the requirements of the 2018 BC Building Code.
There is a subsequent deadline in 2027.

6. Energy Step Code Council
Industry
Government
Utilities
Academia & NGO
In 2017, the Province of British Columbia established the Energy Step Code Council to support the successful implementation of the BC Energy Step Code and the market transition to net-zero energy ready buildings.
A representative of the Province of British Columbia’s Building and Safety Standards Branch chairs the Council. Government, industry, and utility stakeholders serve as Council representatives
As an advisory body, the Council does not have any formal regulatory or administrative authority.
Instead, it provides a venue for stakeholders to gather and share information, and work collaboratively to resolve issues as they arise. Informally, it serves as a “bridge” between the provincial government, utilities, local governments, and the building, development and design sectors, to help local governments adopt the BC Energy Step Code in a prudent and coordinated manner.
The Province of British Columbia works with the Energy Step Code Council to monitor how local governments are implementing the standard, including any impacts on housing affordability and technical building requirements. Issues identified by the Council may inform future changes to the technical content of the regulation, or how it is implemented.

7. The Steps: Part 3 Concrete Buildings
Here is how the BC Energy Step Code works.
Step 1 tightens up requirements, making builders pay attention to details and ensuring a quality building envelope. Step 1 requires performance testing of the building during construction to ensure that the building envelope is well-sealed.
For Part 3 wood buildings there is only one upper step, Step 4.
To achieve this step, builders and designers will need to adopt a more integrated approach to building design and may need to incorporate more substantial changes in building design, layout, framing techniques, system selection, and materials.
These techniques and materials will be more costly and challenging without additional training and experience.
For this reason, the province is advising local governments that they may incentivize the Upper Steps, but may not require them community wide until at least 2020.
This is to allow industry time to increase capacity.
The top step in the BC Energy Step Code equates to a Net Zero Energy Ready building, which is up to 80 percent more energy efficient than a typical new building.
In 2032 the code will require this level of performance in all new buildings.
Such buildings roughly approximates the requirements of the Passive House standard, or the CHBA’s Net Zero Ready certification.

8. The Provincial Context
In 2016, the province first committed to requiring net-zero energy-ready new construction by 2032 .
A net-zero energy ready building is one that has been designed and built to a level of performance such that it could, with the addition of solar panels or other renewable energy technologies, meet all of its own energy needs on site.
In December 2018, the province released its Clean BC strategy, which reaffirmed the Net Zero Energy Ready target and established two new interim deadlines.
First deadline is 2022, when buildings must perform 20 percent better than those built to the requirements of the 2018 BC Building Code.
There is a subsequent deadline on the road to 2032 in 2027, when buildings must perform 40 percent better.

9. What does the Energy Step Code Measure
Energy Step Code – Overview
‘Energy Efficiency’ in the Energy Step Code:
Envelope Efficiency
Equipment Efficiency
Performance based

10. Metrics - Envelope Efficiency
Energy Step Code – Overview
Losses
Air tightness
Insulation
Gains
Solar gain
People & equipment
Units of heat energy required for constant temperature after losses and gains (ignores equipment efficiency).

11. Metrics - Equipment Efficiency
Energy Step Code – Overview
Energy Use
Heat
Water heating
Ventilation
Lights and plug loads (large buildings only)
Energy Use

12. Performance Compliance
Energy Modeling by Natural Resources Canada Certified Energy Advisor
Air-Tightness Testing
Achieve minimum performance levels
No Prescriptive Energy Requirements

13. Local Government Awareness Growing
More info: find Local Govt awareness surveys here:
Local governments with “moderate,” “good,” or “excellent” knowledge of the BC Energy Step Code,

14. Local Government Adoption
Communities that issue more than three quarters of all residential building permits have now either referenced the BC Energy Step Code in building bylaws, or are consulting with their builders on a plan to do so.
A strong majority of the province’s local governments have now stepped on to the high-performance staircase leading the province’s net-zero energy-ready future.
More info:

15. Adoption and Training Local governmentAdoption Education and training
Communities that issue more than three quarters of all residential building permits have now either referenced the BC Energy Step Code in building bylaws, or are consulting with their builders on a plan to do so.
A strong majority of the province’s local governments have now stepped on to the high-performance staircase leading the province’s net-zero energy-ready future.
Local governmentAdoption
Education and training

16. Industry Capacity Building Workshops
Building Smart
BC Housing series has trained 1,617 builders, engineers, architects, others.
LEEP Sessions
Builder engagement workshops.
Two sessions in three regions.

17. Awareness Increasing 2017 2018 52% 78% 19% 48% 11% 25%
Are you aware of the BC Energy Step Code?
52%
78%
Have you attended any BC Energy Step Code training?
19%
48%
Have you built housing to meet Step 1, 2, or 3?
11%
25%
BC Housing has kindly shared a preview of select findings from its most recent annual survey of British Columbia’s licensed residential builders.
BC Housing conducted the province-wide survey in September and October 2018.
More than 1,200 of British Columbia’s licensed home builders responded, representing a response rate of 21 per cent.
BC Housing will include highlights from the survey in its upcoming BC Residential Building Statistics and Trends Report.
Source: BC Housing

18. An Economic Development Driver
A March 2019 study by Vancouver Economic Commission suggests that the BC Energy Step Code could help unlock a $3.3 billion market for high-performance windows, insulation, and equipment in Metro Vancouver by 2032
Study says the two codes create 925 jobs in manufacturing, on average, each year; and support 770 installation jobs, on average, each year.
Study is “Green Building Market Forecast, Metro Vancouver 2019–2032.”

19. Implementation – Contiguous Local Governments
All high-rise residential now
Step 2, Part 3 community-wide

20. Implementation – Accelerating Climate Objectives
The BC Energy Step Code targets overall energy efficiency, rather than specific greenhouse gas outcomes.  However, a number of local governments are taking advantage of the standard’s inherent flexibility and pairing it with greenhouse gas intensity policies.
For example, these jurisdictions are able to promote low-carbon heating and cooling systems, such as ground- or air-source heat pumps, by offering Part 3 residential developers two different paths to pursue. Developers in these jurisdictions must either:
Meet the performance requirements of Step 2, and install a city-approved low-carbon heating system in the building, or
Deliver on the more stringent performance requirements of Step 3,  if they choose to install a fossil fuel heating system.
Both pathways aim to directly target greenhouse gas emissions. In short, these communities allow a residential developer to take a lower step, but only if the proposed building emits less carbon
Incentivizing low carbon energy systems in MURBS.

21. Resources 1/2: BC Energy Step Code Design Guide
The Energy Step Code Council, the Province of British Columbia, BC Housing, and other organizations have produced a variety of resources to support industry and governments through the transition to net zero energy ready buildings.
This is an excerpt from the BC Energy Step Code Design Guide, which provides information on the key strategies and approaches to meeting the standard’s requirements in mid- and high-rise (Part 3) wood-frame and noncombustible residential buildings within British Columbia.

22. Guide to Low Thermal Energy Demand for Large Buildings
Here is another resource for Part 3 buildings.
This is an excerpt from the Guide to Low Thermal Energy Demand for Large Buildings, also a BC Housing publication.
This is an illustration showing how designers can maintain the continuity of the thermal insulation across a building’s structure.

23. Communications “One-Stop-Shop” website (energystepcode.ca)
Guides, handbooks, videos for local governments and industry.
Metrics Research Report
Search for energy advisors, incentives.
Ongoing Updates
Monthly opt-in newsletter.
Social media updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn.
The Energy Step Code Council, the Province of British Columbia, BC Housing, and other organizations have produced a variety of resources to support industry and governments through the transition to net zero energy ready buildings.
It’s all at energystepcode.ca.
The Energy Step Code Council also produces a monthly newsletter, and posts updates on social media.
Sign up for the Energy Step Code Stakeholder Update at

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