Building to Zero Exchange (BTZx)

The Building to Zero Exchange (BTZx) aims to prepare the building sector for Canada’s low-carbon future, which requires the collaboration of the building sector participants to retrofit and create high-performance buildings efficiently and at a large scale. BTZx serves as a Centre of Excellence for the building sector that strengthens the public, private, and civic capacities for zero-emissions buildings in Nova Scotia. BTZx supports and amplifies work in the sector by showcasing leadership, inspiring local innovation, promoting collaboration and equity and workforce opportunities in the low-carbon transition. As a hub for this community of practice, BTZx brings together diverse voices to and grows capacity through research, events, resource development, skills training, and communications. Stakeholders from across the full spectrum of the construction sector ecosystem work as collective champions for the innovation policy, business, and regulatory actions necessary to develop Nova Scotia’s low-carbon transition. BTZx does not replace the good work in the ecosystem; rather it is a convener and collaborator.