Questions

EWRB reporting is Ontario’s building energy and water reporting. People also call it Ontario energy water reporting. Under O. Reg. 506/18, the owner of a building of 50,000 square feet or more reports a year of electricity, natural gas, other fuels, and water in ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Ontario. The deadline is July 1. Owners who look up building energy reporting Ontario are describing this same filing.

Owners of buildings of 50,000 square feet or more report electricity, natural gas, other fuels such as diesel and fuel oil, and water for January 1 through December 31. The provincial deadline is July 1 every year. A few building types are exempt. If you think you might be one of them, say so and we will check before a file is prepared.

Ontario requires a certified professional to verify the data in the first reporting year and every five years after that. We collect the bills, prepare the ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager file, and coordinate an accredited verifier to sign it. We do not pretend to be the verifier.

Multi-residential EWRB depends on floor area, not on the number of homes. An apartment building of 50,000 square feet or more files the same energy and water report as an office. A multi-residential building is not a designated class for the O. Reg. 102/94 waste audit.

Yes. A Toronto building of 50,000 square feet or more reports to the Province and to the City of Toronto, both through ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager. Ottawa and Durham have used regional benchmarking programs. Where those programs apply, the same data set can feed them.

Yes, if you want lower bills and a quieter first filing year. Ontario provincial EWRB under O. Reg. 506/18 is still 50,000 square feet or more today. From about 10,000 square feet Allsite can open or update ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, track utilities monthly, help cut wasteful consumption, and get you ready for 2027 filing — including Toronto city programs expanding toward smaller buildings. Clean data also supports ENERGY STAR recognition and rebate evidence where you qualify; we organize the evidence and do not guarantee an award. Monthly tracking is quoted as an Analytics Engine retainer.

EWRB filing is the annual Ontario submit (and Toronto city submit when required) for buildings that meet the size test — $350 per building for a standard filing year. Monthly tracking is the Analytics Engine: we watch electricity, gas, water, and waste invoices through the year, usually starting from about 10,000 square feet even when no provincial filing is due yet. You can take tracking alone, filing alone, or both.

An Ontario waste audit is the annual on-site sort and the written waste reduction work plan for a designated property under O. Reg. 102/94. A commercial property waste audit, also called a commercial waste audit, covers an office, retail complex, hotel, school, restaurant group, hospital, manufacturing site, or construction project that meets the size test. The plan stays on site. Multi-residential buildings are not on that legal list.

O. Reg. 102/94 designates offices and retail complexes of at least 10,000 square metres, hotels and motels with 75 or more rooms, schools with more than 350 people enrolled, restaurant groups with gross sales over $3 million in each of the two previous years, manufacturing sites where employees worked more than 16,000 hours in any one month, Class A, B, and F hospitals, and construction or demolition projects of at least 2,000 square metres. Retail complexes also qualify when the owner manages waste for the tenants. Multi-residential buildings are not a designated class under this regulation.

Designated sites update the waste audit and the written waste reduction work plan every year. The plan stays on site so it is there if the Ministry asks for it. BOMA BEST asks for a waste audit at least every three years and recommends a yearly one. LEED buildings are commonly on a five-year audit cycle. One engagement can be scoped to cover the regulation and the certification you actually hold.

We agree a sample window that reflects a normal week, not a holiday shutdown. Ontario audits are often built from a representative 24-hour sample of non-hazardous waste, recycling, and organics. For a sharper result, and for a BOMA BEST file, the stronger practice is a longer sample covering at least 10 percent of a typical day’s waste by weight. The crew sorts and weighs garbage, recycling, and organics, and records where each stream came from.

A description of the program you have now, the sample date and method, composition by material, and the diversion rate, capture rate, and contamination rate. It also includes the observations that explain the numbers, photographs of the streams, and the waste reduction work plan. Recommendations stay practical: bin type and placement, signage, occupant notes, and which hauls are oversized.

Diversion is how much of all the waste avoided disposal. Capture is how much of the material that could have been diverted actually was. Contamination is material sitting in the wrong stream. A building can post a decent diversion rate and still be throwing recyclables into the garbage, or spoiling a recycling load with food. The audit separates those three so the fix is obvious.

Often, yes, because the sort shows which bins are contaminated and which pickups are larger than the building needs. Right-sizing frequency and keeping recyclables out of the garbage are the two fastest operational savings. We will not promise a dollar figure before we have weighed your streams.

Building utility analytics is the monthly watch on electricity, natural gas, water, and waste invoices for an Ontario property. Utility bill analytics, utility bill monitoring, and building utility monitoring are that same watch. Property utility tracking Ontario-wide compares each month with the building’s own history, in units as well as dollars. Energy use intensity relates consumption to floor area, so a rate change is not read as a busier building.

The Analytics Engine is a monthly retainer quoted from the number of buildings, utility accounts, and meters. We do not publish a single sticker price because meter count varies. Request Analytics Engine and we return a fixed number within one business day.

It helps you show up prepared. Portfolio Manager scores, ENERGY STAR recognition, and many rebate or incentive applications ask for clean utility history. The Analytics Engine keeps electricity, gas, water, and waste watched through the year so that file is ready. Program owners set the rules and decide awards — Allsite does not sell a guaranteed certification or rebate package.

Yes. The year of energy and water in the EWRB file, diversion from the waste audit, and the monthly utility watch are the building environmental data. That set is the ESG data for buildings and the ESG utility data. It is the ESG building data Ontario owners already keep, and it is the ESG sustainability data Ontario programs ask to see. Sustainability reporting Ontario requires nothing beyond those figures. A sustainability program covers energy, water, and waste, so a sustainability program waste energy water request is answered from this same file. Allsite does not sell a separate carbon package.

Property data management is building records management for the files a property team already holds: Excel workbooks, software exports, accounting files, and databases, kept as one current set. Data management services Ontario companies use also include manufacturing data management and construction company records. It is separate from the monthly utility watch.

Yes. Excel data cleanup is part of data management. The current workbook, the old copy, and the cells that disagree are labeled, and the next export updates the same set so the report is not rebuilt by hand.

We reply within one business day. An EWRB reporting contact, an Ontario waste audit quote, and a building compliance review all start the same way. The fastest note includes the building type, city, floor area, and a recent utility or waste-haul bill. A bill lets us see the account and the streams before the call.

Yes. Send the list of buildings with type, city, and floor area. One property over the line is enough to put a management company on an annual cycle. We will mark which sites need EWRB, which need verification, which need a waste audit, and which are under the thresholds.

Allsite Ontario is based at 100 King St W, Toronto, Ontario. Building compliance for Toronto GTA and the rest of the province follows the same steps: EWRB reporting, the waste audit, utility analytics, and the records behind them. Ontario building compliance and property management compliance for a portfolio are screened building by building.

Not today. The work we take is the EWRB file, the waste audit, and the work plan. The same sort is how bin placement, signage, organics capture, and haul frequency get decided. Broader program work can sit on that account later. Hazardous waste, construction debris, and anything outside the daily stream are kept out of the audit sample and handled by specialists.

Yes. Data management is for any operation that is already holding records in files and systems: a property team, a construction company, an industrial or manufacturing company of any size, or a smaller operator. We collect what is in the Excel files, software, and databases you authorize and streamline it into one clean set for financial reporting, operating records, and analysis. Your accountant still signs the statements and the tax return. The Analytics Engine remains the monthly watch on electricity, gas, water, and waste invoices. You can take either service, or both, including when no filing is due.

No. The checker and the headlines on this site are a screening guide for property teams. They are not a legal opinion, and they are not a promise that a penalty is impossible. Whether a filing applies depends on the facts of the property. We confirm that in the compliance review.

A missing EWRB report, waste audit, or work plan is enforceable under provincial law. Inspectors can ask for the documents, and a conviction can bring a corporate fine. The amount depends on the offence, so we do not quote a number here. There is also a cost that shows up on the hauler invoice: contaminated recycling is rejected and landfilled, so you pay to collect it and pay again to dispose of it.