Green Buildings & Green Infrastructure

ETV Canada is continuing to explore opportunities to work with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), InfraGuide and others to promote the use of performance benchmarking and verification in the selection and implementation of environmentally sound technologies and infrastructure. An integrated approach, based on ETV Canada’s comprehensive technology verification platform, offers considerable benefits to municipalities and local communities.

Recent ETV Canada performance benchmarking projects in the green buildings sector are described below.

Eco-Efficiency in Commercial Buildings

Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is developing a set of investment opportunities and priorities for emerging technologies in the Commercial Buildings sector. A session took place in September in Toronto to solicit input from leading industry experts to help challenge and direct the underlying assumptions and preliminary conclusions of SDTC’s Eco-Efficiency in Commercial Buildings SD Business Case™.

The SDTC Commercial Buildings Business Case™ is an iterative electronic decision-support tool that helps identify emerging technologies which have the highest impact in addressing industry sector’s sustainable development needs. The tool prioritizes the actions that must be taken to achieve commercialization. The comprehensive and objective methodology assesses the political, economic, social and technical forces acting on the technology, and identifies the barriers to market entry for each of the prioritized areas being studied. The results are intended to help shape SDTC’s future investment priorities in the Commercial Buildings sector and provide SDTC with the background necessary to make fully informed investment decisions. ETV Canada attended the session to review and help validate the results of the work done to date, contribute new and emerging information and trends, and collaborate on establishing a common set of forward-looking industry priorities in technology developments.