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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, if...
All parties have pledged to spend big in the run up...
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 to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
