City of Vancouver 2025 Vancouver Building By-law Public Comment Phase I
UDI Lower Mainland submission to City of Vancouver.
In the Summer of 2024, the City of Vancouver proposed changes to the Vancouver Building By-law (VBBL). The development industry supports the delay of adaptability and seismic changes from the 2024 BCBC and that the City not proceed with the embodied carbon proposals.

βThe building sector is already facing supply shortages and rapid cost inflation of construction materials that are already making housing and other projects difficult to deliver. This is not the time to further limit what materials can be purchased.β