A new federal-provincial-territorial (FPT) governance model has replaced the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes(CCBFC), the committee responsible for code development in Canada since 1991, introducing a harmonized set of codes to reduce...


The efficiency of new buildings designed to meet the 2011 National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB) will be significantly better than that of most older structures. It replaces the 1997 Model National...