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The Benefits of HOT Lanes

Do you remember the last time you raced out the door with just enough time to make it to your destination, and how your heart…

Skilling Up

Across Canada, cities and municipalities are grappling with infrastructure challenges. Now, with the federal government committed to injecting significant capital into infrastructure over the next…

In a SNAP

In the face of climate change, communities across Canada are contending with the vulnerability of infrastructure to severe weather events and the ongoing challenge of…

Making Green Count

During the past decade, new thinking has emerged regarding trees and other forms of living “green infrastructure,” such as wetlands, bioswales, green roofs, and green…

Excess Soil Handling

Improvements to how excess construction soils are managed in Ontario will require coordinated efforts and the clarification of responsibilities by government and industry stakeholders. After…

Power to the Rails

A planned decade-long project to electrify more than half the GO Transit commuter rail network in the Toronto area is in line with a global…

The Hardest Job to Fill

By 2025, Canada is on course to have a shortfall of 261,400 skilled tradespeople—and this is just for the residential construction market alone. Add the…

Power Shift

The dramatic shift in Alberta’s political landscape in 2015 was considered seismic at the time. Rachel Notley’s New Democratic Party (NDP) came from seemingly nowhere…

At the Speed of Light

If you pass through the main streets of Hamilton, you’ll notice that street lights have become much brighter. The city recently completed an extensive street…

Banking on Change

Over the past decade, several attempts were made to close the Canadian infrastructure gap. These were led at various government levels across Canada and favoured…

Not Making the Grade

The 2016 Canadian Infrastructure Report Card (CIRC) provided an assessment of the country’s municipal assets, including roads and bridges, public transit, buildings, sport and recreation…

Flowing Funds

There is widespread consensus that Canada’s water systems are in urgent need of investment, replacement, and renewal. For many cities and communities, however, the upfront…

Come What May

Following the U.S National Weather Service prediction that there is a 95-per-cent chance El Nino will affect the northern hemisphere this year, Canadians need to…

Northern Exposure

In the Yukon, the territorial government takes the possibility of climate change seriously because even the slightest temperature increase above freezing can change everything. The…

The Low-Carbon Highway

Transportation accounts for about a third of all greenhouse-gas emissions (GHGs) in Canada and, in most provinces, is the single largest source of emissions, followed…

Room for Innovation

Our lives depend on the sustainability of the materials we use to build our infrastructure. So how do designers choose one material over another? We…

State of Renewables

Dozens of solar of companies that responded to the Ontario government bid to inject 140 megawatts (MW) of renewable power into the grid couldn’t have…