Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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…
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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…
Alliance Model: Lessons learned from collaborative contracting in Australia
By Kate Borg The use of the alliance model for project procurement may be new to owners and developers in Canada, but this form of…
IPD aims to increase efficiency, while reducing waste and disputes
The integrated project delivery (IPD) model has been around for close to two decades and, while it began in the United States, it’s slowly picking…
The Road to Resilience
Minister Kim Masland leads the way for public infrastructure improvements in Nova Scotia. Public Works Minister Kim Masland was first elected to the Nova Scotia…
Too Much Government Red Tape, Not Enough Red Seal Training
By Chris Gardner, President, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association With the construction industry facing an unprecedented labour shortage and supply chain pressures, the B.C. provincial…
Fluid planning when building over water
Construction is always a dynamic process, but when the environment at the site is itself in motion, this takes on a new meaning. This is…
New Highway 427 extension moves transportation plan forward
By Grant Cameron Four years ago, a small army of heavy equipment operators on backhoes and bulldozers began removing trees, shrubs, logs, fallen timber and…
SPONSORED: Helping municipalities mitigate flood risks and protect their communities
Over the last decade, flooding has become the costliest extreme weather disaster affecting Canadians. According to research by Intact Center on Climate Adaptation, the average…
As electric vehicle use increases, charging infrastructure will need to keep up
The introduction of new, more affordable, electric vehicle (EV) models has many Canadians seriously considering making the leap to electric. The vehicles are ready, but…
Centennial College’s A Block Expansion Project achieves zero carbon certification.
The Centennial College A Block Expansion Project is looking to be one of the first mass timber, net-zero carbon post secondary education facilities, and was…
Toronto’s Union Station Revitalization Project incorporates unique engineering
By Andrew Snook Toronto’s Union Station is a well-known landmark to both commuters in the Greater Toronto Area, as well as Canadians across the country.…
Innovative Infrastructure Standards
Developed away from the political arena, standards offer government and industry an objective option for addressing some of today’s most pressing issues. The diverse, consensus-based…