Two Victoria firms have landed significant grants from the province’s Clean B.C. Building Innovation Fund, which supports projects that demonstrate low-carbon, energy-efficient building practices and technology.
Heritage Lumber, which has offices in Victoria and Vancouver, received $500,000 to expand its deconstruction, reclamation and remanufacturing facilities, while Audette Analytics, a Victoria-based software firm, received $800,500 for its energy assessment tool for commercial buildings.
Heritage is a reclaimed wood broker that specializes in milling and processing wood salvaged from old buildings.
Audette uses software and machine learning to create plans that help companies get to net-zero carbon emissions in their real estate portfolios.
The money is part of a $5-million funding announcement from the building innovation fund. Since 2019, the fund has doled out $14.6 million to help fund 41 projects.
“With this fund, we are investing in innovative, made-in-B.C. projects that lay the cornerstones of emissions reduction, increased building energy efficiency, energy cost savings and stronger local economies,” said Bruce Ralston, minister of energy, mines and low carbon innovation.
