Free to use
Free building tools
Practical tools for understanding the building you already have. Six steps, one building, and every suggestion names the public body it came from.
Six steps through ICI
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01 Understand the building
Check a building
Record the main systems in your building and what you know about them, and generate a dated Condition Profile.
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02 Understand local conditions
The Building Almanac
Hazard and climate evidence for Canadian provinces and territories and United States states, with its limits stated.
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03 Understand what conditions may touch
Building Operating Conditions Brief
How governed local operating conditions may relate to the systems a building has, what information is missing, and questions for a professional.
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04 Understand equipment
Equipment tools
Look up equipment, browse official recall and safety notices, or learn how to identify equipment safely.
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05 Get seasonally ready
Seasonal calendar
What to consider reviewing each season, with the public body behind every suggestion.
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06 Prepare for retrofit or contractor decisions
Retrofit Readiness Profile
What building information you have and what is missing before speaking with an energy adviser or applying to a program.
Building Alerts
Get building-focused alerts when severe local conditions may matter for a building. Not an official weather or emergency warning.
Supporting tools
Smaller tools for a specific question. Each has its own page.
- Weather and building cost driversHow local weather conditions relate to the cost of work on a building.
- Resilience Resource NavigatorAuthoritative guidance from public bodies, organised by topic and jurisdiction.
- Before you call a contractorA one-page sheet of what to gather before a contractor conversation.
- Equipment lookupFind the make and model family of a system.
- Recall noticesPublished recalls for heating, cooling and water equipment.
- What your refrigerant meansWhat R-22, R-410A, R-454B and R-32 mean for servicing.
- Matched system checkWhether the parts of a cooling system were rated together.
- Equipment guideWhat each system is, what it does and what wears.
Inside the building record
Tools that work together on the building record
These build up a written record of one building, so they live together rather than on pages of their own. Go straight to the one you need:
Infrastructure Condition Index provides education and preparation. It does not inspect, diagnose or schedule work.