New sustainable municipal buildings
A combined loan and grant for Canadian municipalities and qualifying partners to construct low-carbon, wholly municipally or Indigenous-community-owned public buildings.
Questa opportunità è attualmente disponibile in inglese.
Finance the construction of a new city hall, library, recreation centre, indoor arena or pool, arts facility, police station or another qualifying municipal building. Homes do not qualify. A new fire hall, paramedic centre, ambulance station or public-works building qualifies only as part of a multipurpose building that includes another eligible community use.
The combined loan and grant can cover up to 80% of eligible costs, to a maximum of C$10 million. The grant is calculated from the loan, cannot be taken separately and can be up to 15% of the loan amount. A project that remediates a brownfield site may receive an additional 5% grant.
Eligibility
Canadian municipal governments can apply. Companies, municipal corporations, regional, provincial or territorial organisations delivering municipal services, NGOs, nonprofits and research institutes can apply as municipal partners. An Indigenous community can lead if it partners with a Canadian municipality or has a relevant shared-service agreement with one. Every building in the project must be wholly owned by a municipality or eligible Indigenous community.
Build on a completed feasibility study that assesses technical and financial feasibility and the project's environmental, social and economic impacts. Building conversions and additions may be classified as either new construction or retrofit projects, so discuss their classification with Green Municipal Fund before applying.
The baseline and proposed energy models must follow the National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings 2020. For a non-office building, the design's annual energy use per square metre must be at least 25% lower than the baseline, while its annual heating demand per square metre must be no higher. Office-like and mixed-use buildings follow the climate-zone targets and floor-area calculation rules on the offer page.
The project must also cut embodied carbon—the emissions associated with the building's materials and construction—by at least 10% compared with a building that performs the same function. Show this through the required whole-building life-cycle assessment, completed by a registered architect or professional engineer with at least three years' experience in embodied-carbon assessments. New infrastructure must be outside the current 100-year floodplain unless you can show protection. If new infrastructure assets are valued above C$2 million, complete a recognised climate-risk assessment and address the risks it identifies.
Fossil-fuel limits vary by climate zone. Buildings in zones 4 through 7A must achieve zero operational greenhouse-gas emissions, subject to the stated emergency exceptions. In zones 7B and 8, fossil-fuel space heating is allowed only below -15°C.
How to apply
- Stato
- Aperto continuamente
- Restrizioni del bando
- Applications are accepted while programme funding remains available.
Create a client profile and submit a pre-application through FCM's funding portal. If Green Municipal Fund confirms that your organisation and project can proceed, submit the full application, project workbook and required supporting documents through the portal.
Quebec municipalities must use the provincial MAMH submission route described on the official offer page before FCM reviews the application.