September 11, 2025
June 6, 2025
June 2025 Written by: Homeowner and Natalie Douglas, ZEBx Program Manager North Van Net Zero is a two-time Georgie and HAVAN award-winning project and the North Shore’s first certified whole home net zero energy retrofit, showcasing innovation in sustainable building. […]
June 3, 2024
May 15, 2024
University of Victoria Student Housing and Dining Complex Net-Zero Energy-Ready Challenge Winners Series Buildings are the biggest source of emissions in large urban centres like Vancouver and Victoria and this is almost entirely due to burning fossil fuels for space […]
April 28, 2024
October 19, 2023
Case Study: Scalable Decarbonization Opportunities in Commercial Buildings Built in 1991, Fraser Pointe 1 is a 16-story market-rental MURB in East Vancouver owned by Concert Properties. Based in Vancouver, Concert Properties owns and manages over 14 million sq. ft of […]
June 19, 2023
Case Study: Scalable Decarbonization Opportunities in Commercial Buildings Founded in 2019, Audette is a Canadian proptech company with a mission to create a Carbon Reduction Plan for every building on the planet. They offer an advanced analytics platform that accelerates carbon reduction […]
April 20, 2023
Home Electrification – Service Upgrade Not Required! Recently, TSBC issued an information bulletin regarding a new way of calculating a dwelling’s maximum demand load using 12 months of utility bills and a 25% safety factor. This will go a long […]
April 19, 2023
Apr 2023 With a population of approximately 21,000, a very cold climate and without the adoption of the BC Energy Step Code, many would not expect the City of Fort St. John to have a high profile in the green […]
April 5, 2023
Apr 2023 Written by: Rahul Chander (owner/builder) Why Step 5? In 2018, I learned that Step 5 will be mandatory beginning in 2032 for all new homes in BC. This information, and the incentives from the City of New Westminster […]
January 17, 2023
Case Study: Orion – Real-Life Performance of a Step 4, All-Electric Building Did Orion achieve its performance targets? As we highlighted in our June 2021 Construction Cost Analysis of High-Performance, Multi-Family Buildings in BC, Innovation Building Group was able to […]
October 18, 2022
Case Study: OSO Net-Zero Energy-Ready Challenge Winner Series The Net-Zero Energy-Ready (NZER) Challenge is a provincial CleanBC incentive program for large buildings (multi-unit residential, office, retail, commercial, institutional, etc.) launched in late 2018. In addition to providing financial support for […]
