Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Log homes are a bit of a challenge, but there are ways. There are technologies out there that you can incorporate in a new log home construction. Renovation may be a little different.

Environment committee  We've been in communication with various log home developers. We're working with them, and we will continue to work with them.

Environment committee  I think we're very ambitious at 2022. One of the reasons for that is you can't just put a solution into code and say, “Thou shalt build this way” without having the technology catch up to do that. It would not serve anybody well if that's the way the codes were developed. Gener

Environment committee  It's actually a very valid point. At this point the national building code, the national energy codes, apply to new buildings. What the National Research Council is doing is creating what we consider to be a technical guide. It's a technical guide because there's currently no cod

Environment committee  As Mr. Tremblay indicated in his presentation, when the National Research Council and the commission's committees develop technical changes, they are required to carry out a cost-benefit analysis. That doesn't mean that because something has a cost, it doesn't go into the code. W

Environment committee  In the case of model codes, the national system creates a national building code, and provinces then will adopt that national building code, either as the national building code per se or as a provincial code. B.C. has a B.C. building code. Ontario has an Ontario building code. Q

Environment committee  Up or down, but generally if B.C. is going to do something, they may go up. Generally the provinces will go up slightly. The national code is adopted with a lot of consultation with the provinces. What we aim to do when we're developing the national codes is to make sure that the

Environment committee  I wouldn't necessarily say that it's always the northern regions. Some of them are provinces. It could be for a number of reasons. Maybe the priorities within that province are different. Maybe they're focusing on greenhouse gas reduction versus energy reduction, or maybe they're

Environment committee  Would you like me to respond to that?

Environment committee  The building codes are on a five-year cycle. The next cycle for the building code is 2020. Generally, it takes about a year and a half to two years of technical work, plus some consultation and stakeholder engagement. Then the material is published in 2020. The usual code cycle i