The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Canada is seeking a program administrator ahead of a targeted January 2025 rollout of new incentives funded through the Canadian government’s deep retrofit challenge program. The successful candidate emerging from a newly launched request for proposals (RFP) process will oversee the delivery of nearly $17 million to help underwrite costs of advance assessments, retrofit project design, implementation logistics and post-project monitoring and verification.
BOMA Canada envisions that benefits could flow to up 900 commercial buildings across Canada, with about 120 undertaking a specified deep retrofit project and the larger share of owners/managers getting support for a range of preparatory and capacity building activities. Once in place, the program administrator will work with BOMA Canada to refine incentive details and then recruit a slate of qualified technical service providers to be aligned with the program.
The deep retrofit challenge program will have three broad elements:
- training and awareness, including conferences and information sessions and a dedicated website to serve as a repository of technical resources and the administrative portal for the program;
- incentives to support preparation for and/or practices and expertise supportive of deep retrofits; and
- specialized services, such as commissioning, recommissioning and building optimization, energy managers and integrated design.
Candidates for the program administrator role are expected to have experience in designing and implementing large-scale energy efficiency or sustainability programs and managing multi-stakeholder programs in the commercial real estate sector, as well as demonstrated knowledge of deep retrofits and energy efficiency technologies and an established presence in Canada’s largest provinces and regions. Building owners/managers throughout Canada will be invited to participate, but there will be an emphasis on areas with a high density of commercial buildings in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec.
The RFP will be open until September 30. It’s expected a successful proponent will be chosen by October 11 and the deep retrofit challenge program will be launched in January 2025. Under government rules, it must be completed by March 31, 2027.
