CAGBC

The Accelerating to Zero Best Practices Exchange (BPX) is a newly launched series of conversations with Canada’s leading zero-carbon experts. The series focuses on exploring the innovative solutions, strategies and technologies that will help advance the sector along the path to a net-zero future. Each ask-the-expert interview invites meaningful dialogue to tackle both the technical and market challenges inherent in designing, constructing, and managing resilient, zero-carbon buildings.

Our in person adaptation of the popular online Zero Carbon Workshop includes important foundational knowledge for zero-carbon buildings, with an emphasis on the latest versions of CAGBC’s Zero Carbon Building standards.  The ZCB-Design Standard v3 and the ZCB-Performance standard v2 apply to all new buildings except single and multi-family residential buildings that fall under Part 9 of the National Building Code.  The requirements for both new and existing buildings will be addressed and participants will have the opportunity to participate in a live Q&A and interactive activities to r

This is a 4-part course (all taking place at 3:00-5:30pm PST:

Session 1: August 8th

Session 2: August 10th

Session 3: August 15th

Session 4: August 17th

These workshop webinars will review important foundational knowledge for low-carbon buildings, with an emphasis on the latest versions of CAGBC’s Zero Carbon Building standards. The requirements for both new and existing buildings will be addressed. Topics include:

- The zero carbon balance,
- The zero carbon transition plan,
- Embodied carbon,
- Thermal Energy Demand Intensity (TEDI),
- Energy use Intensity (EUI),
- Peak demand, and
- Renewable energy

These workshop webinars will review important foundational knowledge for low-carbon buildings, with an emphasis on the latest versions of CAGBC’s Zero Carbon Building standards. The requirements for both new and existing buildings will be addressed. Topics include:

- The zero carbon balance,
- The zero carbon transition plan,
- Embodied carbon,
- Thermal Energy Demand Intensity (TEDI),
- Energy use Intensity (EUI),
- Peak demand, and
- Renewable energy
 

Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) continue to increase in demand across Canada’s building industry because they support efforts to calculate and reduce embodied carbon. Building product manufacturers who have already invested in product Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), pursued their EPDs and maintained them, are meeting market demands and experiencing better business outcomes. 

La dernier de ces deux ateliers de 2.5 heures chacun passeront en revue les connaissances de base en matière de bâtiments à carbone zéro, en insistant sur la dernière version des Normes du Bâtiment à Carbone Zéro du CBDCA. Il traitera des exigences applicables aux bâtiments nouveaux et existants et notamment des questions suivantes:

La premier de ces deux ateliers de 2.5 heures chacun passeront en revue les connaissances de base en matière de bâtiments à carbone zéro, en insistant sur la dernière version des Normes du Bâtiment à Carbone Zéro du CBDCA. Il traitera des exigences applicables aux bâtiments nouveaux et existants et notamment des questions suivantes:

This half-day introductory workshop will introduce broad audiences to the WELL Building Standard, including its key certification process. The organization and development of the WELL Building Standard is presented in the context of the healthy buildings movement. Key public health research is discussed to provide the basis for the WELL concepts, and some research on the value of WELL is discussed.

This workshop will be a useful overview of the standard for WELL AP exam candidates. 

A new go-to database of Canada’s most popular enclosure assemblies has been launched by Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and RDH as part of a funded project with The Atmospheric Fund (TAF).

This published data of enclosure assembly material quantities can be used to calculate embodied carbon before drawings exist, encouraging very early-stage design decisions for greater reductions.