Professional Building Inspections (PBI)
Professional Building Inspections (PBI)
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The changes to the Building Regulations have adopted the 2020 National Building Code and lists all amendments to the building code.
• Amendments to the Building code take president over the Building Code.
• Dwellings will now be required to meet Tier 2 for 9.36
• F280 Heat gain/loss calculations must be provided for all prescriptive 9.36 energy efficiency submission.
• 9.36 energy efficiency and NECB will now all be done to Zone 7a across the board for the whole province.
• Clarification on Smoke and CO2 detectors for all buildings.
• Daycares have been added to the code amendments (advisory has been removed)
• All Commercial Part 9 buildings (Class 2) must use NECB for energy compliance (9.36 no longer allowed).
• NBC 3.8 barrier free requirements have had the most changes to the building code (new barrier free guide being published by BTS).
• Part 2 for Farm buildings has been added (farm buildings still have an exemption if granted by the municipality).
• New forms will be added to the website for 9.36 and NECB in the next few weeks.
• Full lists of amendments and code changes will be uploaded over the next few weeks.