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Welcome to Building Benchmark BC

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Participate in Building Benchmark BC and join over 1,900 buildings and more than 90 organizations in disclosing their building energy performance data.

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Building Benchmark BC

Supporting property owners through a changing landscape

Building Benchmark BC is a voluntary benchmarking and disclosure program launched in 2020.

Want to help benchmarking grow? By participating in voluntary benchmarking and disclosure, you can ensure that your voice is heard in the in industry shift towards increased building performance. And you can also learn more about how your building(s) are stacking up against the BC building stock.

Benchmark BC 2024 was a great success! Click below to see the results and read the report.

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Partially Funded by Natural Resources Canada BC Hydro OPEN Technologies GRID by OPEN

View our previous webinars

Discover benchmarking, what's involved in the program, and the benefits of participating.

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Find out how to enter your property into ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, set up data sync with your utility providers, and correct common data errors.

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Welcome to Building Benchmark BC

See the 2024 Performance Report

Building Benchmark BC 2024 showed stellar participation yet again with over 1,900 participating buildings and more than 15 million square meters of floorspace! This report features the benchmarking results alongside two deep retrofit case studies, 777 Dunsmuir (Vancouver, BC) and OSO (Golden, BC). Check out the 2024 Annual Report here.
Building Benchmark BC Annual Report 2023 Cover

See The Data

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To see the results for yourself and dig into the data in a visual format, please see the Disclosure Map. This site allows you to see all of the buildings that agreed to publicly share their building performance data.

Previous Reports

If you are curious to see how the program has evolved over time, you can view the reports for past years here:
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Building Owners and Managers

Valuable opportunity for property owners and managers:

Competitive insights

Gain insight into not just your own energy usage, but also how this compares to similar buildings

Capitalize on opportunity

Attract and retain tenants who value transparency and responsible building management

Gain awards

Receive recognition for your building’s performance or your efforts to increase its performance

Display leadership

Show the industry you are a leader engaged in changing the built landscape

Influence regulations

Influence the direction of potential future benchmarking and disclosure regulations

ESPM

Get help setting up ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager (ESPM) and syncing with utility providers

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Communities

Do you represent a local government? Join us!

BC Hydro City of Burnaby Capital Regional District Metro Vancouver City of Nanaimo New Westminster District of North Vancouver Port Moody Saanich City of Surrey The University of British Columbia City of Victoria

Robust dataset

Creation of a robust dataset of local building performance that can better quantify GHG emissions across the region

Incentivize intelligently

Knowing what themes exist in top performers, we can then incentivize impactful changes

Buildings will do better

Data suggests building owners who have information are more likely to retrofit to optimize

Support services

We get program support from OPEN, including an established technology backend, support in program design, and customer support for property owners

Build capacity

Building capacity among our staff to understand and support higher building performance

Work collaboratively

Working within a cohort of local governments working to achieve energy and emissions reductions in the built sector

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How to Participate

Interested in how your building performs and how it compares to others? Would you like to get insights to improve its performance? The registration link will be available soon but in the meantime, here’s the project timeline to help you plan ahead:

  1. 1. Registration Period

    Register between May 1st and July 31st, 2026 for Year 7.

  2. 2. Data Submission

    We will provide you with information on how to share your building data. Data will be collected between June 1st and September 1st, 2026.

  3. 3. Validation

    We will work with you to validate the data that you provided, as well as provide you with a detailed performance scorecard. Validation will occur between August 1st and September 30th, 2026.

  4. 4. Disclosure

    Share your results with others on the public disclosure map (note that this is completely optional, but encouraged).

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Frequently Asked Questions

Nope! We are gathering names to start. We will connect with you to figure out the best way to share your data. After that, each additional step will be outlined to you and you can choose to progress forward or opt out.
Yes, and we can help you obtain that data from your utilities. We will work with you to set-up an automatic sync between the utilities and your account, at which point you can choose to forward that data to us.
This program has two components, benchmarking and disclosure. We encourage participation in the benchmarking component even if disclosure is not an option for you. Disclosure of your data will be a choice you can make after you have information available about your building's performance. We will never share your data without your consent. We hope that you do choose to disclose (as it helps to move the industry forward and leads to energy and GHG reductions), but if needed, you may change your mind at any time and make the data private again.
Nope! There are no regulations in place that require specific performance, so sharing your data into this program will not get you in trouble.
When you register, we just need to collect your contact information and number of buildings. When you share your data, we will need; building name and address, total gross floor area of property, year of construction, primary property type, and monthly energy data.
Sign up as soon as possible to make the data submission deadline of September 1st, 2026. We will send out some initial information right away, and then reach out to help you get connected into the program. Those who sign up earlier will get information and help earlier!

Building Benchmark BC data is made available to support building owners and the broader community in understanding energy performance across BC's building stock. However, use of this data is subject to the following guidelines:

  • Personal/internal use: Building owners may use their own benchmarking data freely for internal reporting, planning, and decision-making.
  • Research and non-commercial use: Aggregate or anonymized data may be referenced for educational or research purposes, provided Building Benchmark BC is cited as the source.
  • Third-party or commercial use: Reproducing, redistributing, or using Building Benchmark BC data for commercial purposes — including in reports, products, or tools — is not permitted without prior written approval from the Building Benchmark BC program team.
  • Scraping or automated collection: Automated extraction of data from the Building Benchmark BC platform is prohibited.

To request permission for a specific use, contact support@buildingbenchmarkbc.ca.

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