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.
There are three possible paths to achieve the energy efficiency requirements:
- Prescriptive Path
- Prescriptive with Trade-Off Path
- Performance Path
Overview of the NBC(AE) 9.36 Compliance Paths
Learn more about the three paths in the
Overview of the Application and Inspection Criteria
Required Documents
NBC(AE) 9.36 Energy Efficiency Tradeoff Calculator
NBC(AE) 9.36 Performance Path Summary and Checklist
Other Documents
NBC(AE) 9.36 Letter of Assurance No PI
Inspections