Seminar 1 - Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 8:30 a.m. - noon - Calgary

Best Practices for Solar Hot Water System Permitting and Inspection

This seminar, organized by the City of Calgary, will outline Toronto’s regulatory solar permitting processes including:

1. Plan Review - How a proposed solar hot water project is reviewed to ensure it is compliance with the building code and relevant standards as well as the requirements placed on the contractor.

2. Site Inspection – What system elements must be inspected to ensure conformance with the building code and standards as well as with solar industry best practices.

This seminar is for municipal building officials as well as for municipal energy and environmental officials who are looking to increase the deployment of SDHW systems in their municipality.

To register, contact Lyle Jones (416-393-6370). Pre-registration is required.

Seminar 2 - Thursday, April 22, 2010, 8:15 a.m. - noon - Vancouver

Best Practices for Solar Hot Water System Permitting and Inspection

This seminar, organized by  Metro Vancouver and Solar BC, will outline Toronto’s regulatory processes including:

1. Plan Review - How a proposed solar hot water project is reviewed to ensure it is compliance with the building code and relevant standards as well as the requirements placed on the contractor.

2. Site Inspection – What system elements must be inspected to ensure conformance with the building code and standards as well as with solar industry best practices.

To compliment the workshop there will be tours of the recently commissioned solar hot water system at the Metro Vancouver Head Office.

This seminar is for municipal building officials as well as for municipal energy and environmental officials who are looking to increase the deployment of SDHW systems in their municipality.

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To register for this seminar please contact Julia Roberts, SolarBC Training Coordinator at  julia@solarbc.ca. Pre-registration by April 15 is required.

Seminar 3 - Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 10-11 a.m. - Mississauga

Developing a Municipal Solar Water Heating Deployment Program – Lessons Learned from Toronto

The City of Toronto’s Solar Neighbourhoods pilot program has been one of the most successful pilot programs for deploying residential solar water heaters in Canada.  Key to Toronto’s success was overcoming of regulatory challenges that have been a major barrier to the solar industry in Canada.  Toronto Building has now issued over 200 building permits for solar hot water installations. This workshop outlines some of Solar Neighbourhoods’ key learning outcomes as well as the methodologies Toronto Building developed to reduce the regulatory burden for solar hot water.

This workshop will provide useful information on regulatory and program best practices for municipal building and water safety officials, energy deployment and support program agencies, government energy and environmental agencies and solar professionals.

This workshop will be held as part of the Energy Matters Summit on April 27.  You must register for the conference to attend the workshop