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Hemmed between the Fraser River, the Salish Sea, and some of the most beautiful national parks in Canada, Vancouver is a beautiful city. By virtue…

Canada’s Other Energy Boom

When it comes to energy infrastructure, Canada is on the move. Of course, that may seem like nothing new, given Canada’s lengthy energy history, particularly…

Rates of Return

When a consortium took control of Montreal Gateway Terminals from Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners earlier this spring, the price tag—about $650 million—attracted attention. As did…

Smart Mobility

Traffic congestion and gridlock are gripping cities across Canada. While many of the proposed solutions, such as expanding public transit, could help in the long…

The City of the Future

Intelligent communities. Smart cities. Ubiquitous societies. Digital municipalities. These are just some of the labels defining the latest trend in urban innovation and 21st century…

The Roads of the Future

The impact of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on Canada’s infrastructure will be significant. The best proxy for this is to look back to the early years…

Getting Our Priorities Straight

The federal election is not until the fall, but provincial and municipal leaders have already begun throwing their opinions into the fray. In January 2015,…

Cementing Our Future

Many Torontonians are often surprised to learn that the Toronto Port Lands remain a functioning port area and will continue to house industrial tenants. Situated…

Halifax’s Bold Move

In the 1960s, Halifax was struck with the same idea as Toronto: build a major commuter highway through the lower downtown core to enable cars…

Boost Your City’s IQ

Civilization was built one stone at a time. Today, urban infrastructure is the physical and organizational foundation required to operate modern and flourishing societies. The…

What’s Old is New

Tansley Bridge was originally built in 1919 and supported a highway crossing Bronte Creek. In 1948, the highway was realigned following the construction of the…

Too Big to Fail

Large-scale infrastructure projects from procurement to completion are becoming increasingly complicated and risky in Canada. Local opposition, and the political response it inevitably generates, has…

Engaging Strategy

When Metro Vancouver began the indicative design process (IDP) for the new Lions Gate secondary wastewater treatment plant (No. 68 this year),one of the first…

Capturing Value

In October 2014, the world’s first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage plant began operating right here in Canada. Built by SaskPower, Saskatchewan’s public electricity utility,…

Engineered Against Flooding

In August 2005, Southern Ontario experienced one of the largest storms it had since Hurricane Hazel. More than 150 millimeters of rainfall in a two-hour…

On the SmartTrack

The recent election of John Tory as Toronto’s new mayor has been closely linked with a far-sighted transit plan branded as SmartTrack, a proposal to…

A Matter of Integrity

The Quebec government has lowered the threshold triggering the requirement for any company (and their subcontractors) responding to public calls for tender issued as of…

Top 100 Spotlight

ReNew Canada has produced the Top 100 Projects report for the past nine years. The listing of Canada’s 100 biggest projects (ranked by project value)…

Light at the End of the Tunnel

The United Kingdom has experienced significant challenges in the building of major infrastructure projects. Years of cost overruns and delays created a general fatigue in…

Fight the Future

According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), atmospheric concentrations of the primary long-lived greenhouses gases (GHGs) reached new heights in 2013, and CO2 levels grew…

Where Grey Meets Green

Walking into the Greater First Baptist Church of Escatawpa in southern Mississippi in early September 2014, it seemed as if Hurricane Katrina had delivered its…

Breaking Away

Intact Financial and the University of Waterloo announced a national initiative involving the implementation of 20 climate change adaptation projects designed to reduce the physical,…

The Revolutionary Community

Intelligent communities are cities and regions that use information and communications technologies (ICT) to build prosperous economies, solve social problems, and enrich cultures. Many people…