Wednesday, September 17, 2025
20 Years of Happy Returns
By Glenn Miller “The quality of urban life in Canada is rooted in the strength and diversity of its public realm. Education, healthcare, social services,…
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Powering Possibilities: Northumberland Strait Submarine Transmission System
On a quiet summer morning, a team of engineers gathered at the Borden-Carleton switching station. After more than a year of planning, excavation, and precision…
Cooling Classrooms: Safeguarding Canadian schools during unpredictable weather
By Jonas Roberts Extreme and unpredicted weather due to climate change is no longer a distant threat—it’s already disrupting the day-to-day reality in Canada’s schools.…
Prioritizing the building of critical public infrastructure
The Government of British Columbia narrowly passed Bill 15, the Infrastructure Projects Act, which aims to fast-track major infrastructure projects deemed provincially significant, including schools, hospitals…
Resolving Infrastructure Cost Overruns: A Lost Decade
By Matti Siemiatycki Nearly a decade ago, the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) published my paper, Cost Overruns on Infrastructure Projects: Patterns, Causes, and…
Celebrating the Biggest Infrastructure Projects in Western Canada
On May 13, senior executives from throughout the Canadian public sector infrastructure landscape came together at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel to celebrate more…
Annual awards recognize Canada’s top female infrastructure leaders
The Women’s Infrastructure Network (WIN) held its 11th Annual WIN Awards ceremony, which honoured female infrastructure leaders across the country. The event took place in…
Vancouver fuel switch project is one of the largest ever attempted in Canada
By Glenn Miller Making the tough decisions on where, when and how to invest in infrastructure solutions that collectively have the potential to reduce greenhouse…
Tariff Tensions: Managing risk through carefully drafted construction contracts
By Brian P. Reid and Lily Suh Driven by growing housing needs, clean energy policies and a high volume of telecommunications transactions, demand for Canadian…
North America’s first all mass timber acute care hospital being built in Ontario
By Mark Cardwell Small is beautiful—the notion that small spaces can be designed and built with more user-friendly features, functionality and elegance in mind—is something…
OPG ready to begin building North America’s first small modular reactor
Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has received the green light to build North America’s first commercial, grid-scale small modular reactor (SMR). On May 8, the Province…
Powering Up: Indigenous-led Oneida Energy Storage Project goes online
The Oneida Energy Storage Project has officially commenced commercial operations, becoming the largest grid-scale battery energy storage facility in operation in Canada and one of…
Canada’s future depends on accelerating national priority projects
By Mark W.S. Bain, Andrew Bernstein, Peter Danner, Valerie Helbronner, and Dennis E. Mahony Turning to national priority projects in times of volatility is an…
How AI and smart systems can secure Canada’s energy sovereignty
By Rabeh Ayari Canada is blessed with vast reserves of natural resources and holds immense promise for energy sovereignty in an age of increasing geopolitical…
Project Brings Truth and Reconciliation to Life
The National Centre (provisionally named) for Indigenous Laws (NCIL) at the University of Victoria (UVic) is a project for Chandos Construction that showcases how truth…
Connecting the Canadian Arctic through infrastructure and Indigenous knowledge
By Arlen Foster and Angie Bates Imagine living in a remote Arctic community where your connection to the outside world is a single road—if one even exists. And…
The challenges of getting Canadians on board with public transit
By Mark Douglas Wessel “A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” is the analogy Winston Churchill once used when describing a situation difficult…
The importance of preparing for extreme weather cannot be overstated
By Dr. Blair Feltmate Over the past decade, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) released three strategic reports, each sharing a common theme—the need for…
Alberta’s first wildlife overpass outside Banff National Park reduces wildlife-vehicle collisions
By David McPherson In Canada, a wildlife-vehicle collision occurs every 38 minutes. The associated costs—both direct and indirect—of these unplanned and dangerous encounters between humans…
You Can Fight City Hall
By Erik Schomann Tiny Township, nestled between rolling farmland and the serene beaches of southern Georgian Bay, is facing a financial crisis that threatens its…
EllisDon implements hybrid battery solution to build sustainable change
By Angela Gismondi EllisDon is piloting a hybrid battery solution in an effort to help reduce GHG emissions on jobsites and meet net zero targets. Traditionally…
The right response to transportation crises can limit their overall impact
By Matthew Bowser When disaster strikes, and the call comes in, are you ready for what comes next? Do you know what gear to grab,…
Powering Nuclear: A new (old) solution for Canada’s clean energy future
By Anthony Ciccone To meet the demands of an electrified Canadian economy by 2050, the federal government estimates that between 140 and 190 gigawatts of…
Barriers to recovering subcontractor losses via flow-through claims in Canada
By Catherine Gleason-Mercier and David Leck Long-standing practice on Canadian construction projects has been to structure contractual relationships in a pyramid. In this regard, the…