Retrofit Airtight homes in Vancouver are pivotal for maximizing retrofit investments, aligning with sustainability goals, and achieving energy efficiency. With the aid of technologies like Pacific AeroBarrier, homeowners can ensure comfort, improved air quality, and financial savings, while also benefiting from rebates and incentives from organizations like Fortis BC
The importance of an airtight home - From the perspective of a high performance builder. If you are in the construction industry right now, it’s the most talked about topic, with issues ranging from the blower door test to the materials and techniques used to address airtightness of a building.
For this seal job we ran both trucks simultaneously. While working along side with the builder, our team was about to achieve a total of 74.3% reduction in envelope leakage in just under three hours.
The BC Energy Step Code is a voluntary provincial standard enacted in April 2017 that provides an incremental and consistent approach to achieving more energy-efficient buildings that go beyond the requirements of the base BC Building Code.
Aerobarrier is featured in BUILT GREEN® Q1 2019 Quartely Newsletter. The BUILT GREEN® Product Catalogue is an online resource for builders and renovators for use in sustainable construction.
The Province of British Columbia first introduced energy efficiency as a BC Building Code objective in 2008. Ever since, designers and builders have had the option to use either “prescriptive” or “performance” approaches to comply with the code’s efficiency requirements.
The BC Energy Step Code is a voluntary provincial standard enacted in April 2017 that provides an incremental and consistent approach to achieving more energy-efficient buildings that go beyond the requirements of the base BC Building Code.