Friday, July 4, 2025
Unpaving Paradise
Green infrastructure experts deliberate the policies needed to build back better. By Connie Vitello The Canadian government has informed the country of its plan to…
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Re-energizing the Arctic
Nunavut’s Qulliq Energy Corporation is carrying out an extensive energy renewal program. By Carroll McCormick This fall the Arctic sealift company NEAS (Nunavut Eastern Arctic…
Low Carbon Countdown is On
Canada’s new climate plan needs a consistent approach to net zero buildings By Ryan Zizzo Canada can make progress towards its climate goals while supporting…
Constructing Energy Capacity in Canada
By Connie Vitello To avoid the catastrophic effects of a warming climate, Canadians are actively transitioning to a net-zero economy by 2050. The Canadian Net-Zero…
CBAs: Beneficial Building Trend
By Tim Runge A Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) is a legal contract that specifies community benefits for an infrastructure or development project. CBAs come in…
Building Back Better in B.C.
In his mandate letter, British Columbia Premier John Horgan outlines a challenging variety of duties for Rob Fleming, British Columbia’s new Minister of Transportation and…
Sponsored: Engineering Secure Energy Infrastructure
As anyone who has worked in the energy sector knows, success does not come easily; it is the outcome of careful planning and a LOT…
Breaking New Ground to Rebuild and Remediate
By Nicolas Sbarrato The Turcot Interchange, a major traffic hub in the Montreal area of Quebec, has been the site of large-scale project work since…
Keeping the funds flowing for SOGR projects
By Peter Smith and Nadia Todorova COVID-19 has battered the Canadian economy, shaken the pillars of industry, and caused untold human suffering. The pandemic has…
Facing the frontline challenges with FCM CEO Carole Saab
Carole Saab, the chief executive officer of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) brings a clear and ambitious vision for Canadian municipalities on the national…
Sponsored: Toronto’s new Quayside development building a bright future
By Peter Kenter There’s a bright world just beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and Waterfront Toronto, the organization tasked with revitalizing the city’s waterfront, is already…
Increasingly inclusive construction in Canada
By Grant Cameron As a child, Bijal Dalal was fascinated by tall buildings and the challenge of trying to figure out how they were built.…
Infrastructure’s role at the heart of the recovery
By John Allen At the start of the year, 2020 was expected to be a relatively quiet one politically in Canada. After a global pandemic…
Sponsored: Creating sustainable infrastructure in the Arctic
By Benoit Dion When we see movies or TV shows about the Arctic, those of us from the south are immediately struck by the beauty…
Power Up: Manitoba-Minnesota transmission project
By Andrew Snook After more than 10 years of planning and regulatory hurdles, the Manitoba–Minnesota Transmission Project (MMTP) went into service on June 1, 2020.…
Evolving the way we train
By Phil Gillies COVID-19 struck a major blow to apprenticeship training in Ontario. The training of thousands of apprentices ground to a halt in March.…
Investing in buildings for a resilient recovery
By Elliott Cappell and Ryan Ness Trinity Bellwoods, a park in downtown Toronto, was in the national news spotlight in May. Media descended on the…
Just saying it doesn’t make it true
By Todd Latham The COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax, the U.S. election was stolen, all wipes are flushable, and the earth is flat. Just saying…
Megaproject development tops $250 billion
For the first time in Canadian history, the 100 largest public sector infrastructure projects under development have topped the $250 billion mark, according to ReNew…
Traversing the Fraser
Opened in 1959 to join the cities of Richmond and Delta in British Columbia, the George Massey Tunnel running under the Fraser River has long…
The Bank’s new leadership
He may have been on the job for a little over seven days, but when we caught up with new Canada Infrastructure Bank CEO Ehren…
Examining P3s and alternative procurement models
The public-private partnership (P3) model for infrastructure delivery isn’t the only solution for delivering large-scale infrastructure projects in Canada, but it should be very seriously…
COVID-19 taking a toll
By Grant Cameron The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of Canadian workers and the construction industry must continue taking steps…
Building the Post-Pandemic Future
Risk was already one of the biggest issues facing infrastructure development in markets around the globe. And if procurement agencies weren’t addressing it then, they…