6.1. Current Situation

• In the EA & SO Sector, the issue of the effectiveness and enforcement of codes, regulations, and bylaws involves the connectivity of energy evaluations and energy labels to those rules and other policy development.

• In BC, the City of Vancouver, through the Vancouver Building Bylaw, is the only government entity that has integrated the existing (and new) home energy evaluations and energy label into a regulation.

• The Canadian Buildings Strategy has made a commitment for federal, provincial, and territorial governments to work towards requiring labelling of building energy use by as early as 2019. Labelling will provide consumers and homeowners with transparent information on energy performance and drive awareness and market demand for energy evaluations. A successful voluntary home-labelling program will pave the way for political acceptance of mandatory labelling.

• Develop a model code for existing buildings by 2022, with the goal that provinces and territories adopt the code. This code will help guide energy efficiency improvements that can be made when renovating buildings.