Building Decarbonization Alliance

All over the world, investors are looking for places to with efficient, resilient buildings powered by clean energy to support their businesses, and affordable, comfortable homes to support their workforce

A Canadian buildings sector that fails to take advantage of our country’s substantial clean energy resources will miss out on these opportunities, resulting in building portfolios that no longer meet the growing needs of investors seeking low-carbon solutions.

Launched in 2023, the Building Decarbonization Alliance is aimed at accelerating the electrification of residential, institutional, and commercial buildings across Canada, bringing together key players from across the sector to identify structural barriers to electrification—and work with its 300+ partners to overcome them. 

Build a cross-sector coalition
Share lessons and best practices among regions
Amplify leading-edge building-science research
Accelerate market transformation

Join the movement to decarbonize Canada’s buildings: Become a BDA partner today.

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Building Decarbonization Alliance Leadership

Bryan Flannigan, P.Eng.

Interim Senior Vice President, Transition Accelerator; Executive Director, BDA

Bryan joins the Transition Accelerator to lead building decarbonization initiatives as Executive Director of the Building Decarbonization Alliance. He brings to the role over 30 years of leadership and consulting experience with governments, utilities, and businesses to find technical, program and policy solutions to reduce emissions and improve the energy efficiency of the built environment.

Prior to joining The Transition Accelerator, Bryan played leadership and expert advisor roles with some of Canada’s leading energy and environmental consulting firms, including ICF International, Posterity Group and Econoler Inc. He was Senior Manager of Operations at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, and helped successfully launch the Green Municipal Fund. His early career was built on a foundation of technical and engineering roles including Director of Technical Services at Del Property Management Solutions and Energy Engineer at Siemens Building Technologies. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, and is a Professional Engineer licensed in the province of Ontario.

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Moe Kabbara

President

Moe Kabbara is an experienced energy and industrial policy professional with nearly 15 years of work at the intersection of technology, policy, markets, and supply chains. His work focuses on driving systems-level change across electricity, fuels, buildings, and industry.

As President at the Transition Accelerator, Moe leads national and regional efforts to support the transformation of Canada’s energy and industrial systems. He oversees work on electricity system planning, building decarbonization, the future economy, low-carbon fuels, and regional implementation—working across sectors to align planning, investment, and execution.

Previously, Moe was a Managing Consultant at Dunsky Energy + Climate, advising governments and utilities on clean energy strategies. He also served as a Senior Investment Officer at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, where he focused on investment attraction in the battery and automotive sectors as part of Canada’s emerging industrial strategy. Earlier in his career, he co-founded and served as CEO of a thermal energy storage start-up in Atlantic Canada.

Moe also played a leading role in establishing Accelerate, Electrifying Canada, and the Building Decarbonization Alliance—national initiatives focused on aligning policy, industry, and infrastructure to enable economic and energy system transformation.

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James Meadowcroft, PhD

Transition Pathway Principal

James Meadowcroft, PhD, is a professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University where he has held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Governance for Sustainable Development. He has written widely on environmental politics and policy, democratic participation and deliberative democracy, national sustainable development strategies and socio-technical transitions. Recent work focuses on energy and the transition to a low-carbon society and includes publications on carbon capture and storage (CCS), smart grids, the development of Ontario’s electricity system, the politics of socio-technical transitions and negative carbon emissions.

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