The EnerGuide Rating Service is your first step for confirming that your homes are built with the most advanced construction practices for energy efficiency. Congratulations on your interest in being a leader in residential new construction!

EnerGuide Rating Service and Other Green Home Ratings

The EnerGuide Rating Service can also be used:

• to confirm your home meets the new "Green Building Code" minimum of 77/100
• to access the label and grants in the BC Hydro Power Smart program
• as a foundation for the ENERGY STAR home labeling program
• as a foundation for the Built Green certification program
• as a marketing tool to your clients who are concerned about high energy bills

EnerGuide Rating Service Program Details

Before the home is built...

Certified Energy Advisors assess the blueprints of your home and input the details into a modelling software called Hot2000. This software provides the baseline EnerGuide rating for the energy efficiency of the home you intend to build. The EnerGuide rating is on a scale between 1 and 100 where the higher the number, the more efficient your home.

Certified Energy Advisors will then use the software modelling to input selected upgrades for your home and show you how you could increase your home's potential EnerGuide rating. Target areas include passive solar gain (window placement and size), high efficiency heating, increased insulation, air tightness and so on.

After the home is built...

Once the home is built, the Certified Energy Advisor will complete an on-site blower door depressurization test and input the final construction components. Using the Hot2000 software once again, a final EnerGuide rating label will be produced for that specific home.

Registering your EnerGuide Rating Service Files

To complete the EnerGuide Rating Service certification process, your Certified Energy Advisor must submit your home files to Natural Resources Canada through an authorized service organization. City Green is authorized to complete this process on behalf of your Advisor. For more details, please contact us at 1.866.381.9995.

Contacting an EnerGuide Rating Service Advisor

City Green Solutions does not currently offer the EnerGuide Rating Service blueprint analysis for new construction. However, several of our contractors do and so we invite you to contact them:

Wendy Smith, energal[at]shaw.ca (Victoria)

Niels Anthonsen, niels[at]telus.net (Victoria)

Stan Jang, stan.jang[at]gmail.com (Vancouver)

Jim Campbell, jimcampbell[at]telus.net (Bowen Island)

Other BC providers