This website offers a range of resources to help you understand and apply the BC Energy Step Code – in your community and to your projects. Here’s what’s available.

• Resources for local governments
  • Find the Best Practices Guide, the Step Code Peer Network, PowerPoint presentations, notification forms, and the Community Energy Association’s Building a Legacy Toolkit, an interactive online guide with resources for communities starting their BC Energy Step Code journey
• Resources for industry
  • Features a range of BC Housing builder guides and information about LEEP – Local Energy Efficiency Partnerships – and LEED’s Alternative Compliance Pathway for Step Code buildings
• Resources for home owners
  • Offers content for consumers interested in improving energy efficiency in their homes

General content of interest to all:

• BC Energy Step Code requirements
  • Provides the BC Building Code requirements for the BC Energy Step Code, Code convenience  copies, and the City of Vancouver Energy Modelling Guidelines
• Compliance tools for Part 3 buildings
  • Links to the Part 3 Energy Design Report, a voluntary Excel-based tool energy modellers and design professionals can use as a checklist to submit to local government authorities to verify compliance with the BC Energy Step Code
• Compliance tools for Part 9 buildings
  • Links to the BC Energy Compliance Reports – Performance Paths for Part 9 Buildings, and the Mid-Construction Verification Report
• Case studies
  • Find out how and why builders and communities are using B.C.’s  new energy-performance building standard
• Energy advisors
  • Explains what energy advisors and energy modellers are and do, and how to find an Energy Advisor for your building project
    • Links to the BC Energy Step Code compliance competency framework for energy advisors and energy modellers
• Events calendar
  • Lists upcoming workshops, conferences, courses and other BC Energy Step Code learning opportunities
• Implementation updates
  • Find out which local governments are consulting on or referencing the BC Energy Step Code
• Incentive programs
  • Learn about incentive programs and other assistance available when building or renovating residential and commercial construction projects
• Publications
  • Offers guides and handbooks, BC Energy Step Code bulletins, reports and the BC Energy Step Code Brand Handbook
• Training opportunities
  • Features links to just some of the organizations and training institutions developing programs and courses to teach the skills and strategies needed to build more energy-efficient buildings
• Videos

Page last updated: April 6, 2021.