Friday, June 13, 2025
Moving from Shovel Ready to Shovel Worthy
By Carlo Dade If Canada’s prospects for COVID recovery and economic growth crash in the forest of world business opinion, does it make a sound?…
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Progress continues on Scarborough Subway Extension
By Joshua Patel Scarborough’s three-stop subway extension continues to take shape with crews starting work on the project’s headwalls. Headwalls are underground support structures made…
Report challenges municipalities to prioritize cyber resiliency
By Glenn Miller While the shocking events in Ukraine have raised the public profile of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, Toronto Metropolitan University’s (TMU)—formerly Ryerson University—Cybersecure…
Recycled Roads
Durham Region pilots road reconstruction using recycled materials. The principles of “rethink, reduce and reuse,” have been around a long time, but new takes on…
Driving the next wave of public transit expansion
Public transit is the backbone of livable cities. Better transit means less congestion, faster commutes, more convenience, higher productivity, and lower emissions. Simply put public…
Bridging the Gap
The shifting landscape of bridge design and construction in Canada. By Jianping Jiang and Keith Holmes The way we design and build bridges in Canada…
SPONSORED: Delivering data in an intuitive, visual way
Welcome to the world of GIS data visualization, where information is collected, combed, and displayed in one place for max collaboration and better decision-making. The…
Waste not, Want not
Library renovation project sets new standard for construction waste diversion. Construction, renovation, and demolition waste continue to be the largest contributors of waste in municipal…
Leading the building team for the Gordie Howe International Bridge
By Connie Vitello By all accounts the Gordie Howe International Bridge project is a once-in-a-generation infrastructure project with a price tag to match: $5.7 billion.…
COVID Construction
The criteria for success in delivering B.C.’s largest secondary school In 2017, Graham was selected as the design-build provider to replace the City of New…
Construction Claims
Canadian courts’ approach to loss of productivity claims. By Stuart B. Hankinson and Graham Henry Owners expect their projects completed on time and on budget.…
New active transportation approaches are needed
By Ankush Karwal When Statistics Canada began unveiling the results of the 2021 Census earlier this year, one of the areas that anyone in city…
Accelerating the Building Curve
How to build a long-term care home in months instead of years. By Andre Bohren The life of a traditional construction project often includes months,…
All parties have pledged to spend big in the run up to the Ontario Election
By John Allen and Jess Neilson A lot has happened since the Ford government came into power in 2018. A global pandemic that stretched healthcare…
Accurate data gets Ontario transit infrastructure projects moving faster
By Armando LaCivita In April 2019, the Ontario government announced a historic $28.5-billion transportation plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region (GTHA), including four priority…
How can we make Canada’s infrastructure more resilient?
Situation Critical Climate change impacts could leave Canadians physically and financially under water as a warming and increasingly volatile climate damages public and private infrastructure.…
CCPPP President and CEO Lisa Mitchell on evolving the P3 market
Pivotal Partnerships By Connie Vitello Partnerships between the public and private sectors can make a critical difference in terms of delivering essential infrastructure and services…
Reaching net zero targets includes working with Indigenous people
Canada and the United States will not meet their Net Zero Targets without the full inclusion of Indigenous people. Here’s why. By Mark Podlasly and…
Don’t blame red tape for delays in large transit infrastructure projects
By Shoshanna Saxe and Matti Siemiatycki There has long been talk of the urgent need to speed up the construction of major transit projects in…
Complex infrastructure projects being delivered under an alliance contract
By John Longthorne Network Rail owns, operates and develops the United Kingdom’s highly utilized railway infrastructure which includes over 32,000 km of track and 30,000…
SPONSORED: Reimagining Halifax’s Bedford Highway
Recently, many Canadian municipalities have begun to reassess their roadways and corridors, with a view to making transportation more sustainable. Crucially, this process seeks to…
City of Vaughan implements a first-of-its-kind Mobility Management Strategy
By Zoran Postic As home to a bustling downtown core, thousands of businesses and more than 341,600 residents, Vaughan is one of Ontario’s fastest growing…
Innovative stormwater facility project overcomes numerous challenges
An award-winning design marks an auspicious start to any project. But when the architecture is daring and the structure must house an innovative stormwater system…
Crosslinx makes a big impact with a smaller carbon footprint
By Stacia Van Zetten and Jolene McLaughlin The Eglinton Crosstown LRT (ECLRT) is part of Metrolinx’s regional transportation plan, The Big Move, and is one…