The Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals’ “Existing Heritage Buildings, Carbon, and Building Codes Analysis” project will undertake research, develop capacity-building resources, and disseminate findings to prepare Canadian markets for the future release and prompt adoption of retrofit codes.

Opportunities include:

1. Leveraging the cross-disciplinary knowledge base of the professions which comprise CAHP’s membership and professionals who have valuable expertise and experience applying building and energy codes to existing and heritage buildings to create reference materials. This project will build on CAHP’s growing expertise on sustainable approaches to existing and heritage buildings, which is an emerging area of practice and a key part of climate resilience.

2. Carrying out these technical studies and research at a critical time when codes for existing buildings are being developed presents the unique opportunity to prepare the market with working solutions before retrofit codes are released, and not having to play catch up over several code cycles.

3. Engaging CAHP’s Canada-wide network of professionals working across both the public and private sectors to disseminate the results of the project will be far-reaching and impactful to a diverse range of communities.