6.2. Barriers and Challenges

• Since the fall of 2017, the focus, effort, and time of many energy advisor industry, local government and utility stakeholders is on the roll out and implementation of the BC Energy Step Code. The work of implementing the BC Energy Step Code will continue well into 2018 and beyond. The development of a model retrofit code will require financial resources and considerable time investment from stakeholders. This means that many of the limited EA & SO resources are focusing their time on new construction, rather than renovations.