Road closures: a prescription for prevention

Multi-purpose utility tunnels allow utilities to be relocated into tunnels that are specially designed to host them under the roads, providing protection and easy access to the utilities, and eliminating the need for excavation, writes Amin Hammad.

The City of Montreal has recently initiated a pilot study to investigate the feasibility of multi-purpose utility tunnels with the help of Centre d'expertise et de recherche en infrastructures urbaines, which includes a research group from Concordia University. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY AMIN HAMMAD

April 9, 2018

Around the world, we bury pipes and cables to transport everything from water to gas, from electricity to telecomms. But over the years, this burial practice has resulted in mass graves of utility assets under our roads, with little information about their exact locations and actual conditions. Tha...

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