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 The Sustainable Buildings and Communities (SBC) group supports municipal stakeholders and developers with the development and implementation of integrated sustainability plans and initiatives for their communities.
The communities’ team accelerates the deployment of innovative technologies and solutions that allow Canadians to live 'green' without sacrificing a modern, urban and mobile lifestyle.
Our research, demonstration and deployment activities foster national initiatives for more sustainable community and neighbourhood planning and development practices in Canada. Our current activities include:
- The development of a model sustainable holistic planning process for municipalities and developers.
- Encouraging the incorporation of CETC’s Community Energy Planning Guide, Volume 1 and Volume 2 in municipal energy planning.
- Archetyping and baselining current practices in community design to determine energy and GHG impacts.
- Developing practical decision making tools for municipalities and developers based on holistic design principles.
- Encouraging district energy solutions for both rural, remote and urban/surburban applications.
- Fostering and encouraging pilot projects across Canada that incrementally improve the sustainability of Canada’s community and neighbourhood development.
- Development of indicators to quantify the economic and environmental impacts of alternatives solutions to community and neighbourhood planning and construction.
- Facilitating and developing expert networks in the public and private sector nationally and internationally in the area of sustainable communities and neighbourhoods.
Who We Work With
We work in partnership with municipalities and their planning staff, developers, utilities, federal and provincials government stakeholders and a range of NGO’s and private industry partners.
Many activities are delivered cooperatively with other government policy, program and technology groups within NRCan such as the Office of Energy Efficiency, Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Environment Canada, Transport Canada and the National Research Council.
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