Author/Contributor: ENBIX
Summary:
This page is intended to accompany the “Building the Case for Sustainability” training offered by ENBIX | Alberta Ecotrust. This workshop will explore the cost of high-performance builds and how they affect operating costs. Informed by a recent LEEP costing charrette, this workshop examines how to identify the lowest-cost pathways to net-zero. It also reviews the impact of operating costs, and what other value a builder can unlock in a high-performance build.
This session focused mostly on residential applications, but many learnings will be applicable to other applications as well.
Topics will include:
- Energy Costs
- Heat pumps, electrification, and emissions
- Cash flow
- Pathways to net-zero, findings from LEEP Costing Charrette
- Marketing to the buyer
Presentation
- Slides to come: Building the Business Case
Energy Efficiency Trends
Energy Costs
- Relieving Energy Poverty Through Deep Retrofits
- AUC How Rates are set
- UCA Helps
- UCA Cost Comparison Tool
GHG Emissions
- Real time emissions data
- Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emission from Electricity Generation: Update
- Micro and Small Distributed Generation Reporting
Efficiency
- Alternative Heating Feasibility Study
- Heat Pump Controls
- LEEP ASHP Training recordings
- Residential ASHP Webinar
- Electrification without a Service Upgrade
- Managing Peak Electricity: Approaches and technologies for a rapidly electrifying future
Pathways
- Edmonton, AB, 1969, 2,019 sq ft, Single Detached Bungalow – Retrofit Optimization Dashboard | Tableau Public
- Calgary New Construction Dashboard
- ***Edmonton 2026**** coming soon
- Builder Explorer Tool
- Canada’s Home Electrification Toolkit (BDA)
Energy Modelling Tools
Integrated Process Design (IDP)
- Banff’s Environmental Master Plan
- Qualified Integrated Design Process (IDP) Facilitators
- Integrated Design Process Guide
- Recording of the in-class presentation at the LEEP Technical Forum in Kamloops.
Consumer
- Valuing Deep Energy Retrofits
- Preparing Alberta Buildings for Severe Weather
- Re:climate ‘The Five Canadians’
- CMHC Mortgage Consumer Surveys
- Hawktail Case Study – Central Alberta
- High-Performance Buildings in Mountain Communities – Town of Banff & WSP Report
Sustainability
- Global Reporting Initiative GRI
- B-Corp
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTI)
Supports
- AEEA Demand Side Management
- CMHC Funding and Mortgage Financing
- CMHC Eco Plus
- CMHC Eco Improvement
- CMHC MLI Select
- City of Calgary Green Priority Stream
- Investment Tax Credit (ITC)
- Incentive for Retrofits
- Passive House Rental Investment (looks at MLI Select)
- National Bank: Borrowing Capacity
- RateHub.ca mortgage affordability calculator 2026
- RBC Green Home Mortgage
Other Organizations
Reference Materials
Third Party Accreditation Standards
