We work with government agencies, universities, healthcare organizations, municipalities, commercial property owners, architects, and engineering firms to develop resilient, future-ready buildings.
Owners need to know how their current assemblies are failing under modern climate loads before they can design a retrofit.
CAB offers forensic investigations, failure diagnostics, and water entry testing to provide vital baseline data for adaptation strategies.
A building retrofit's success depends on choosing materials that can withstand changing climate conditions. Climate Adapted Buildings provides independent, evidence-based assessments of retrofit materials, enabling clients to make informed decisions based on durability, structural performance, and long-term value.
Our assessments examine weathering characteristics, structural viability, lifecycle performance, and compatibility with existing building systems. By offering objective, vendor-neutral recommendations, we help owners and design teams select materials that maximize resilience while reducing future maintenance and replacement costs.
Building regulations and climate resilience standards continue to evolve, making compliance more important than ever. Climate Adapted Buildings helps owners, architects, engineers, and facility managers understand and apply the latest requirements of the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC), the National Energy Code for Buildings (NECB), and relevant CSA standards.
Our expertise ensures retrofit projects comply, are insurable, and are designed to meet future climate challenges. We provide practical guidance that helps clients reduce regulatory risk, streamline project approvals, and develop long-term strategies aligned with industry best practices.
What we cover: Energy modelling and the supporting attestation needed to earn the energy-efficiency points under CMHC's MLI Select multi-unit mortgage loan insurance. MLI Select awards insurance incentives — reduced premiums, higher loan-to-value and longer amortization — on a points system across affordability, energy efficiency and accessibility, for buildings of 5 or more units, in new construction, purchase or refinancing. We deliver the energy portion: modelling the building against National Building Code / NECB baselines and turning the resulting performance into approved points.
Energy-code compliance documentation for building-permit approval — demonstrating that the building meets the applicable energy code. In Québec, this is the Construction Code, Chapter I.1 (Énergie), which references the NECB for larger buildings and the residential energy requirements for Part 9 small buildings. Compliance can be shown through the prescriptive path, the trade-off/alternative-solutions path, or the performance path via energy modelling—we deliver whichever the project requires.
What we cover: Energy modelling, GHG-reduction quantification and attestations for the energy outcomes under CMHC's ACLP — low-cost construction financing for new purpose-built rental (and eligible conversions), minimum 5 self-contained units and a minimum $1M loan. Like MLI Select, ACLP uses a points system tied to affordability, accessibility and energy efficiency, and typically pre-commits to convert to MLI Select permanent financing at stabilization. We produce the energy and GHG evidence that drives the energy points and the required code baseline.
What we cover: Energy-efficiency study for existing natural-gas-heated commercial, institutional or industrial buildings under Énergir's energy-efficiency program. We identify gas-saving measures and quantify savings, costs, payback, and GHG reductions. Énergir funds up to 50% of the study (up to $50,000) and pays up to $1/m³ of natural gas saved on implementation.
What we cover: Energy analysis for existing electrically supplied commercial, institutional, industrial or agricultural buildings under Hydro-Québec's Solutions efficaces program. We identify electricity-saving (and demand-management) measures and document them through the OSE tool. Hydro-Québec funds up to $50,000 for the analysis, and up to $60,000 where power-demand-management measures are included.
What we cover: Energy modelling for new gas-heated buildings under Énergir's new efficient-construction program, which rewards designs that perform better than the code baseline. We model the proposed building against the reference, optimize measures to maximize the grant, and produce the documentation Énergir requires.
What we cover: Energy and GHG analysis under the ÉcoPerformance program (Québec — MELCCFP) for business-sector consumers of fossil fuels. The analysis identifies and ranks energy-efficiency, energy-conversion and fugitive-emission-reduction measures and quantifies the GHG reductions that drive the implementation grant. ÉcoPerformance funds up to 50% of the analysis cost.
Designed for universities, municipalities, and institutional owners seeking proactive maintenance strategies.
Comprehensive assessments that identify hidden building envelope deficiencies before retrofit investments.
Helping organizations align their building portfolios with evolving Canadian regulations.
Transform one building into a model for future climate adaptation across an entire portfolio.
Protect your building assets with expert engineering solutions designed for long-term performance, compliance, and climate resilience.
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