TorontoBuilding PermitsAdditional Residential Units
Energy Efficiency Design Summary: Performance & Other Acceptable Compliance Methods
Published by City of Toronto
This is the City of Toronto’s document, as published on its website on 20 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Form
- Published by
- City of Toronto
- Date
- Revised December 1, 2016
- Also called
- Compliance using performance and other acceptable compliance methods
- Form reference
- supplementary standard SB-12
- For
- designer
- Signed by
- qualified designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 3
- Instruments
- supplementary standard SB-12 · supplementary standard SB-1 · ENERGY STAR for New Homes Standard version 12.6 · 2012 R-2000 Standard
Overview
The Energy Efficiency Design Summary for Part 9 houses using the Performance or Other Acceptable Compliance Methods of SB-12, a form authorized by OHBA, OBOA and LMCBO and posted by Toronto Building beside the prescriptive-method summary. It records the compliance option — SB-12 performance, ENERGY STAR or R-2000 — climatic zone, heating fuel and efficiency, window-to-wall ratio, insulation and mechanical ratings, annual energy use against the SB-12 reference package, simulation software and airtightness baseline. A completion guide and the reference air leakage rates follow.
What it covers
- A. Project Information
- B. Compliance Option
- C. Project Building Design Conditions
- D. Building Specifications
- E. Performance Design Verification
- F. Energy Star or R-2000 Performance Design Verification
- G. Designer(s)
- Guide to the Energy Efficiency Design Summary Form for Performance & Other Acceptable Compliance Methods
- Completing the Form
- Building Code Requirements for Airtightness in New Houses
- Energy Efficiency Labeling for New Houses
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