TorontoBuilding PermitsAdditional Residential Units
Energy Efficiency Design Summary: Prescriptive Method
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 prescriptive method
- Form reference
- supplementary standard SB-12
- For
- designer
- Signed by
- qualified designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 2
- Instruments
- supplementary standard SB-12 · supplementary standard SB-1 · CSA B55.1
Overview
The Energy Efficiency Design Summary for Part 9 houses using the SB-12 prescriptive method of Subsection 3.1.1., a form authorized by OHBA, OBOA and LMCBO and posted by Toronto Building beside the performance-method summary. It states its own scope: houses whose windows, sidelights, skylights and glazing in doors are not more than 22% of peripheral wall area. It records the prescriptive package and table, climatic zone, heating fuel and efficiency, ICF, combined heating and airtightness substitutions, and insulation, window and mechanical ratings, followed by a completion guide.
What it covers
- A. Project Information
- B. Prescriptive Compliance
- C. Project Design Conditions
- D. Building Specifications
- E. Designer(s)
- Guide to the Prescriptive Energy Efficiency Design Summary Form
- Completing the Form
- Building Code Requirements for Airtightness in New Houses
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