Building Bridges and Connecting Communities By: Mudeeha Yousaf Click to view Brochure The Government of Manitoba announced in its November 2008 Throne Speech that the Manitoba Floodway Authority (MFA) will be given authority to construct an all-season road on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. The East Side Transportation Initiative (ESTI) is [...]
Calgary Airport Trail Tunnel: Reducing congestion and delay for motorists By: Fadeke Adegbuyi The City of Calgary’s Airport Trail Tunnel Project has been in the works since the late 1990s. With the expediting of the Calgary Airport Authority’s Runway Development Project, the associated 620-metre tunnel is now on schedule to be completed in May [...]
Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex at the forefront of global forensic science By Fadeke Adegbuyi Autumn 2013 will mark the opening of the new Forensic Services and Coroner’s Complex in Downsview, Toronto. The best of its kind anywhere in the world, the FSCC will conduct work that will support the criminal justice system and [...]
British Columbia's Largest Public-Private Partnership (P3) Project Personnel of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) E Division Headquarters have a new home in British Columbia. Partnered with the Green Timbers Accommodation Partners, the Government of Canada undertook a massive infrastructure development project to construct a new facility for the RCMP that is more “central, [...]
Better Trade Between The United States & Atlantic Canada by Sunjay Mathuria This past October, a 240-kilometre, divided four-lane highway officially connected St. Stephen to River Glade, New Brunswick. The project, Route 1 Gateway, is a part of the Borders Gateway initiative by the federal government and the provincial government of New Brunswick. The [...]
In April 2008, the province announced the Fort St. John Hospital and Peace Villa residential care project, an ambitious endeavor to build a new hospital and residential care building, which would provide modern healthcare facilities to the far reaches of northern British Columbia. After four years of planning, coordinating, construction and building, the two [...]
Hospitals are the cornerstones of healthcare delivery in Canada. They are places where people go in hopes of getting better – whether that means healing a broken leg with a cast, treating cancer with chemotherapy, or recovering from a prolonged illness. They are spaces where one should feel comfortable and well cared for. So [...]
Accommodating growth Over the past 10 years, Alberta has experienced tremendous growth. In 2011, Alberta’s population grew by 1.6 percent while the province’s economy expanded by 3.3 percent, with the employment increasing by more than 77 000. In the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, northeast of Edmonton, the average annual growth rate was [...]