Canada’s Green Building Engine: Market Impact and Opportunities in a Critical Decade

EIN CGBE CGBC 400

Dec 15, 2020

This report serves as the definitive account of the impacts of – and opportunities offered by – Canada’s green building industry today and in the coming critical decade. It quantifies the industry’s growth and significant and far-reaching economic, environmental, and social contributions. It also outlines how a COVID-19 pandemic recovery plan centred on green buildings could create almost 1.5 million jobs all across Canada by 2030 while helping to ensure our nation meets its climate targets. Finally, this report spotlights key market trends and drivers that are already enabling and accelerating the country’s shift to high efficiency, zero-emissions buildings, and examines how each could impact Canada’s green building industry.

Canada’s Green Building Sector Today

Since the first edition of this market assessment was produced four years ago, Canada’s green building industry has grown and matured into a significant economic force. As of 2018, the most recent year for which complete data is available, the industry employed 462,150 direct full-time workers. That number is substantially higher than job counts in the natural-resource sectors that many have long considered pillars of the economy. For example, the green building sector employs almost 200,000 more Canadians than the oil and gas extraction, mining, and forestry sectors combined.

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