Corey_lax
Crew Member
I'm working on a Step Code small grocery store in South Surrey. They want the doors to have some crazy U-value that isn't achievable with any product. Not to mention it's a grocery store with automatic sliding doors that will open every 4 seconds when someone enters the building, so who cares how good thermal performance the doors have, if they are always open....All these factors are going to cause a major decline in the amount of new homes being built. Also, don’t forget BC Housing is making a step 4 energy code mandatory for all new houses later in 2023. That means more expensive windows, likely more spray foam insulation etc causing higher build costs. Step 3 isn’t easy to reach although we do get there on each of our houses.
The govt. wants x millions of houses over the next y years and I don’t see that happening. The free money for the past few years has royally effed us in the b.
Or triple glazed fibreglass windows for low income housing, and putting an operable vent in every room. Insulate the crap out of the walls but then the tenants just keep the windows open all year long.