Leadership Recognition

Heat pumps continue to grow in popularity across British Columbia, as many homeowners are seeking to add cooling (and energy-efficient heating) to their home. Installation quality, however, can vary due to a variety of factors including improper sizing or system set up. Poor installations can give heat pumps a bad rap. This ZEBx Decarb Lunch will explore some of the critical heat pump design best practices that lead to better outcomes during installation.

Policy makers are putting offsite manufacturers out of the plant and onto the front page with promises of solving Canada’s housing crisis and, at the same time, supporting secure jobs, value-added forestry, lower-emissions construction, and construction productivity.

While entrepreneurial tenacity forms the foundation of Canada’s offsite manufacturing sector, public policy is shaping cornerstones for its success—from local permitting innovation to senior government code reform and alternative procurement.

This ZEBx Decarb Lunch will explore how zero carbon buildings can be delivered faster, more efficiently, and with stronger performance outcomes through prefabrication, integrated modelling, and mass timber innovation. The Royal Roads University John Horgan Campus building is a recently completed (summer 2025) 5-storey academic building with a full mass timber structure and an innovative prefabricated wall panel system. The project is all electric, ZCB Design certified, and designed to comply with LEED v4. 

The CLF BC Embodied Carbon Awards are back for their fourth year—ready to celebrate the leaders, innovators, and trailblazers driving low-carbon design across the province!

Come support your peers who are making a real impact in embodied carbon innovation, connect with a dynamic community, and most importantly—enjoy a lively evening of celebration and networking.

🏆 We will recognize excellence in six categories:

Debuting this year, the Embodied Carbon Symposium will give attendees an opportunity to earn Professional Development credits through building awareness of best practices and lessons learned, as well as feasible, replicable, and innovative solutions to advance embodied carbon reduction goals.

The program will include a presentation on the state of the landscape of embodied carbon and panel discussions and presentations with previous CLF BC Embodied Carbon Awards winners. Participants will engage in an interactive workshop and gain actionable insights to power their next projects.

Local governments are on the frontlines in managing housing and construction pressures, climate impacts, and economic stress. 

Mass timber is an offsite-manufactured, low-carbon building technology that can reduce construction-related community impacts and timelines while supporting value-added B.C. forestry, manufacturing, and construction sectors.  

Innovations in building permitting and land use policy and zoning can help local governments unlock mass timber’s benefits for diverse communities from metropolitan areas to resource-based towns.   

Join B2E for a virtual showcase highlighting four high-impact projects funded through the 2024 B2E Innovation Fund. Project teams will share practical insights, results, and lessons learned from leading-edge work advancing building decarbonization and electrification in British Columbia. 

The first ZEBx Decarb Lunch webinar of 2026 will be co-hosted with Canadian Home Builders’ Association of BC (CHBA BC). In this one-hour webinar, speakers Pauline Rupp of CHBA BC, Mark Bernhardt of Bernhardt Contracting and Henri Belisle of TQ Construction will draw on the latest CHBA BC data of over 8,500 as-built Hot2000 energy models to examine real-world building industry results and practical approaches to reducing carbon emissions in Part 9 residential construction. 

As the building sector strives to play a more active role in curbing global warming while also adapting to a changing climate, it’s becoming clear that some of the metrics guiding our progress—energy, cost, and carbon—can no longer be treated separately. Join ZEBx for a Decarb Lunch where reload and UBC Campus & Community Planning unveil findings from an investigation into how best to push forward with the higher levels of the BC Energy Step Code and BC Zero Carbon Step Code when cost and whole life carbon are also considered. 

Celebrate the Tradeswomen Exhibit with an evening of art, music, and community amongst construction leaders. Pop in for an hour, stay the whole time and explore powerful portraits, and connect with fellow industry allies. A light snack platter will be served with a cash bar available.

Welcoming words and reflections will be at 7PM.