All resources
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
- 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
- Explains what energy advisors and energy modellers are and do, and how to find an Energy Advisor for your building project
- 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: January 19, 2021.