Energy efficiency includes requirements affecting building envelope, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), and service water heating.
These are intended to address:
- Air leakage
- Uncontrolled thermal transfer
- Unnecessary energy demand or consumption for heating and cooling, service water heating, and electrical equipment and devices
- Inefficiency of equipment and systems
- Unnecessary rejection of reusable waste energy
The same provincially-trained and certified Safety Codes Officers who issue building permits and inspect construction also administer the new energy codes.
The following paths are available to achieve the energy efficiency requirements:
- Prescriptive Path
- Prescriptive with Trade-Off Path
- Performance Path
- Tiered Performance Path
- Tiered Prescriptive Path
Learn more about the paths in the NBC(AE) 9.36 Energy Efficiency Requirements Guide.
Required Documents
NBC(AE) 9.36 Prescriptive Path Checklist
NBC(AE) 9.36 Energy Efficiency Tradeoff Calculator
NBC(AE) Performance Path Summary and Checklist