What it really takes to bring a project from proposal to operation.

It’s not enough for a renewable energy project to be profitable; proponents must prove that their project is fundable. A profitable project shows a viable business, but a fundable project protects the [...]

Our big cities struggle with their architecture fossils—should they be buried or rehabilitated?

Greying transportation infrastructure in Canada’s biggest cities means an opportunity to create something green in its place. If only it were that simple. Tearing down an existing structure means [...]

By encouraging redevelopment of brownfields in Ontario’s cities, the MOE is hoping to turn the province’s 3,000 contaminated, abandoned sites into usable spaces.

ReNew Canada: How will new brownfield regulations speed the redevelopment process? John Gerretsen: The two-tiered approach allows people to use the programming that’s out there to determine what [...]

What developers need to know about the hundreds of changes to Ontario’s brownfield rulebook.

In late December 2009, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment quietly adopted sweeping changes to the regulation of contaminated (and non-contaminated) sites. Some of the changes were extensively reviewed [...]

To  Canada, our annual Top 100 Infrastructure Projects list represents over $68 billion in infrastructure investment. To the ReNew Canada team, it represents our most ambitious editorial supplement. To [...]

Some use P3s to transfer risk—what if the risk was shared by all key players?

If a project is successful, then the owner saves money and the contractor and the designer each get a bonus. Sound good? It’s an alliance, a delivery model that’s been gaining some momentum in [...]

Are costs higher in Quebec due to market pressures, or another kind of pressure altogether?

Most Montrealers picture bullets flying through the streets, not bricks and mortar, at the mention of Hells Angels, but that’s starting to change. For years, the city was plagued by a biker gang [...]

Unravelling the complicated debate surrounding Alberta’s ASAP project.

In September 2008, the government of Alberta awarded a public-private partnership (P3) contract to BBPP Alberta Schools Limited for its Alberta Schools Alternative Procurement Phase I project (ranked [...]

Politicians at every level enter the debate over how and 
when the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund gets used

At the same time Prime Minister Stephen Harper was delivering an economic update that amounts to a tentative thumbs up, Liberal infrastructure critic Gerard Kennedy, who participated in ReNew Canada’s [...]

Is carbon capture the only way to keep Alberta’s lucrative oil sands in business?

Alberta’s oil sands underlie 140,800 square kilometres of land, an area larger than the state of Florida. The extraction and upgrading of about 1.1 million barrels a day (in 2006) is simultaneously [...]