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Climate Monitoring Guide for Indigenous Communities
This document offers voluntary guidance to Indigenous communities across Canada for implementing community-based climate monitoring projects. It shares advice on how to collect, record and validate data on key physical...
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Northern, Small, and Remote Health Care Facilities...
Standards play an important role in supporting health care delivery. By outlining requirements and best practices for performance and process, standards can help patients, staff, and visitors avoid injury from medical devices...
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Standards in Action: Building a Climate Resilient...
Since 2016, SCC’s Standards to Support Resilience in Infrastructure Program has led the development of dozens of standards and related guidance to safeguard critical infrastructure in Canada. SCC held a national consultation...
Notice of Intent
Natural Airflow Ventilators for Buildings
Note: Scope updated August 28, 2018 as per a request from the responsible SDO. (NOI originally published to CNS on April 17, 2017) This Standard gives minimum requirements for ventilators used in buildings which are designed...
The Canadian Smart Grid Standards Roadmap
The goal of this document is to provide a roadmap—a strategic plan—to advance the standards environment from today’s legacy electricity grid to tomorrow’s full deployment, operation and evolution of the Canadian Smart Grid...
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Taking action to protect the planet
The effects of climate change are becoming more evident every year. That makes it vital to do everything we can to prevent and mitigate those effects while also adapting to make our world more resilient to them. SCC is at the...
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Publicly Available Specifications
These guidelines outline the principles and key development steps of a Publicly Available Specification (PAS). It provides some procedural detail and is not definitive in nature to account for the intended flexibility of this...
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Guide for Integrating Climate Change Adaptation...
The long-term impacts of climate change are expected to intensify in the future. With Canada’s average temperature warming at twice the global rate, recognizing impacts like the increasing occurrence of extreme weather...
Notice of Intent
CAN-ASC-2.3 - Model Standard for the Built Environment...
Note: The title, scope and project need of this Notice of Intent (originally published on September 7, 2022) was updated by the responsible SDO on February 14, 2023. The purpose of CAN-ASC-2.3 is to develop a standard that...
Notice of Intent
Soil Amendments – Alkaline or dried Biosolids
Note: The title of this Notice of Intent (originally published on May 4, 2021) was updated by the responsible SDO on October 19, 2021 and February 1, 2022. Note: The title, designation number, type of standard, standard...
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Moving forward together: 2021-2022 Annual Report
From Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to public health and wellness, we worked closely with our partners throughout the year to define standardization strategies for the most complex, interconnected challenges...
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Designing Resilient Communities: Protecting people...
Canadian communities are on the frontline of climate change. Without action, future costs from flooding events in Canada alone could reach $13.6 billion (CAD) 1 annually by the end of the century. And the costs are not only...