- Applies to
- designer
- Work types
- new construction
- Building types
- mid-high rise residential · non-residential
Version 4 of the Toronto Green Standard, dated 2022, as it applies to mid-high rise residential and non-residential new developments — the counterpart to the version 4 low-rise residential and city-owned facilities attachments. Air quality, building energy, emissions and resilience, water quality and efficiency, ecology and biodiversity, and waste and the circular economy each carry numbered measures, with greenhouse gas intensity limits and energy use and thermal energy demand intensity targets set by building type across Tiers 1, 2 and 3, and net zero emissions beside them.
What it covers
- Air Quality
- Low Emissions Transportation
- Cycling Infrastructure
- Pedestrian Infrastructure
- Building Energy, Emissions & Resilience
- Operational Emissions Reductions
- Embodied Emissions in Materials
- Operational Energy & Emissions
- Operational Systems Verification
- Water Quality and Efficiency
- Managing Stormwater
- Water Efficiency
- Ecology & Biodiversity
- Tree Canopy
- Landscape & Biodiversity
- Natural Heritage Protection
- Climate Positive Landscapes
- Bird Collision Deterrence
- Waste & the Circular Economy
- Waste Collection & Storage
- Building Material Reuse
- Sourcing of Raw Materials
- Construction Waste Management
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- Publisher
- City of Toronto
- Category
- Energy compliance
- Published under
- Toronto Green Standard Information Reports — the municipality's own heading
- Alias
- Attachment 3: Toronto Green Standard Version 4 for Mid-high Rise Residential and Non-residential New Developments
- Instruments
- Zoning By-law 569-2013 · CAGBC Zero Carbon Building Standard v2 · Passive House standards · Ontario Building Code, SB-10, Division 3 (2017) · O. Reg. 20/17 · O. Reg. 103/94 · ASHRAE Guideline 0-2013
- Tags
toronto-green-standardversion-4mid-to-high-rise-residentialnon-residentialenergy-efficiency