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The Centre for Clean Energy and Automotive Innovation, to be designed by Stantec, will house classrooms, labs, a library and learning center, an Indigenous gathering space, administrative offices, and multiple collaborative learning spaces.

Festivals should follow Vancouver’s model

A proposed 135-unit rental project on the site of the old Esquimalt bingo hall is headed to public hearing, and will include two live-work units

BC Energy Step Code standards to add construction costs, delay affordable housing, says council

BC home builders are mostly receptive to the resort’s changed Energy Step Code requirements in 2023, but are wary of added construction costs and delays.

The Province of British Columbia has developed a step program within the BC Building Code that requires 20 per cent better energy efficiency for most new buildings in B.C.

Nelsonites will get a say in how future buildings are constructed in B.C. as the Province launches a survey on proposed changes to the B.C. Building Code. Starting this week, a four-week public review will begin to review and comment on numerous proposed building code changes, including: accessibility and adaptable dwellings; cooling requirements; mass timber construction;

Public hearings set for Marysville re-zoning

The updated code will take effect Jan. 1 to allow builders time to adjust

How a new home gets built in Nelson is about to change. New municipal legislation has been passed to require designers, general contractors and homeowner builders to work with an energy advisor early in the design stages of a project to ensure the building design meets up to a provincial Step Code four of energy efficiency requirements — completed using software modelling.