Tag: infrastructure
Planning for Uncertainties in Stormwater Management
By Nathanael Couperus and Natalija Fisher
Cities across Canada are looking for solutions to reduce their vulnerabilities to infrastructure deficits, rapid urban growth, and climate...
City of Guelph Suffers Costs of Last Year’s Frozen Pipe Emergency
The City of Guelph, Ontario has determined that it will need to dip into reserve funds and scale back on planned projects to cover...
Look Before You Leak
As the infrastructure deficit exceeds capital and operational budgets, the leaders in charge of Canada’s municipal water and wastewater assets and operations are being...
Curbing the Flow
Bordered by two countries, eight states, one province, and more than a hundred municipalities, the Great Lakes hold more than a fifth of the...
Canada Needs Better Asset Management: Infrastructure Study
Canada’s first-ever report card on the state of its public works assets has been released, and it turns out that the system with the...
FCM Wants Long-Term Plan for Wastewater Upgrade Funds
Meeting the new federal wastewater regulations is an important national project that requires a national funding plan supported by all orders of government, according...
Growing Together
As water infrastructure deficits grow and standards become more stringent, communities across the country are wondering how they’ll cope with the added costs of...
Watertight
“Water loss is a reality, and it’s going to get worse,” says Shaun McKaigue, vice president at FER-PAL Construction Ltd.
McKaigue is talking about leaky...
Poll: To Fix or Ignore?
It should be no surprise: with cold snaps come main breaks. These seasonal calamities often begin with small leaks in aging infrastructure that are...
Good Vibrations
Crumbling asets. Rusting pipes. Leaking watermains. Musings about the state of our civil infrastructure usually come around to this type of talk. It may...
