Canada’s health care infrastructure faces challenges, relating to aging facilities, availability of capital investment, increased demand for services, and the need to adopt digital and innovative technologies. These challenges are exacerbated by the impacts of climate change on the existing healthcare facilities. As they are expected to provide continuous service to the population including during and after extreme weather events, ensuring the infrastructure is climate resilient will be essential to the well-being of Canadian communities.

The next edition of CSA Z8000, Canadian Health Care Facilities, is underway and SCC is funding and working with CSA Group to support the integration of climate change considerations into the standard. On March 3, 2023, and March 22, 2023, CSA Group hosted a two-part workshop to gather input from experts across Canada to explore how CSA Z8000 can support low carbon climate resilient HCF design.