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Freed Breeze

Wind—it’s powerful, plentiful, and now, predictable. Improvements in technologies for managing big data, like analytics, have enhanced the potential for utility companies to forecast and…

Take Cover

Melanie Belz and husband Michael sold their house and are moving into a two-bedroom apartment in Toronto’s upscale Forest Hill neighbourhood this fall. For a…

Balancing Act

Properly maintained water and wastewater systems underpin our quality of life. Most Canadians are unaware of the poor condition of these systems and the risks…

Infrastructure & Your Health

A growing body of research points to the fact that humans have a fundamental affinity for nature and, more importantly, that we need to be…

Pan Am Games: One Year Out

The clock is ticking down until next year’s Pan American and Parapan American games in Toronto—and everything is on track for what will be the…

Risk & Reward

With the recent provincial election, the majority Liberal government now has an excellent opportunity to proceed with its plan to invest $130 billion in infrastructure…

The Way Forward

As public dollars become scarcer, the next generation of American infrastructure will require the public, private, and civic sectors to engage and partner in new…

Risky Business

Congestion—and how to get rid of it—has been challenging cities for much of the modern era. In 1982, Boston decided to go ahead with one…

On the Marine Highway

The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway marine industry is committing more than $1.5 billion for infrastructure and capital projects designed to make the navigation system more…

Mapped Out

Canada is the largest supplier of energy to the United States, and this trade partnership increases the need for energy reliability. Energy mapping is increasingly…

On the Road to Rehabilitation

It’s no secret that Canada faces many challenges related to its transportation infrastructure. The first-ever report card on the state of the nation’s infrastructure health,…

Building Stateside

Canadians have been organizing public-private partnerships (P3s) for nearly two decades and are well ahead of the United States. However, with local, county, and state…

Supply and Demand

In any market, the key to success is matching supply with demand. Oversupply, and resources are wasted; undersupply, and increased prices frustrate consumers. Market management…

Infrastructure into Art

Launched in 2013, the Outside the Box program is transforming the city’s intersections one traffic signal box at a time. For the past two years,…

The Resilience Imperative

The term “extreme weather,” once confined to the domain of Discovery Channel docudramas, has in just a few short years become a regular headline in…

Hand in Hand

The way we imagine and build our cities in the 21st century will be shaped by several groundbreaking policy initiatives announced in recent months. And…

Under Their Own Power

The world is in a period of growing energy insecurity, and municipal and business leaders are focusing attention on improving the energy resiliency of their…

Renewing Renewal

Many designers and builders of infrastructure are motivated by the public good; they appreciate that their water treatment plants, sewer systems, electrical networks, and other…

Too Hot for Comfort

As cities grow, they get hotter—and without proper mitigation efforts, they are projected to heat up even more. Researchers at Arizona State University and the…

A Guide to Change

The new ISO 55000 standard identifies four fundamentals of proper asset management: value, alignment, leadership, and assurance. Of those, some of the biggest challenges are…

Room to Grow

When the Ontario government passed Greenbelt legislation in 2005, with the stated goal of protecting sensitive, beleaguered forests and waterways surrounding the Greater Toronto Area,…