The federal government can provide higher confidence and trust in the feasibility and benefits of the 2020 model codes through the development of national platforms designed to support training and market readiness in each province and territory. These platforms enable lower levels of government acting in the role of authority having jurisdiction (AHJ), the municipality or province/territory responsible for enforcing building code requirements, to communicate long-term decarbonization objectives, track progress towards those objectives, increase building code expertise in their market, and streamline resources dedicated to compliance.

Author Andrew Pride recommended several federal platforms to enable tiered code adoption and implementation in Efficiency Canada's report Tiered Energy Codes: Best Practices for Code Compliance. These include:

1. Establishing a roadmap for buildings that defines a path to net-zero. This includes suggested timelines for adoption of the upper tiers (NZEr) of the tiered code.
2. Developing a building code compliance portal, overseen by Natural Resources Canada, that provides data services such as energy audit quality assurance, aggregation of energy data to inform future policy priorities and incentive programs that reduce liability exposure for AHJs.
3. Developing a national compliance database of building performance levels, compliance concerns and compliance tips, anonymized to protect the specific project information. This database can streamline resources for AHJs by offering valuable lessons learned, exception-handling, and best practices.
4. Providing national energy compliance guidelines to increase consistency of the application and interpretation of energy codes between jurisdictions. The national guidelines should contain at a minimum:
   • Clarity on energy efficiency terminology,
   • Guidance on challenging compliance areas (e.g. thermal bridging),
   • Reference tools (checklists, software, etc.) to demonstrate compliance, and
   • Modelling parameters associated with energy performance.
5. Establishing provincial and national networks of Subject Matter Experts (SME) that offer increased capacity for AHJs related to compliance, provide a platform to share experiences, and provide a means to share compliance related resources.