Harnessing the power of technology to manage the public infrastructure gap

Canada has a world-class innovation ecosystem, which can be activated through targeted infrastructure funding to focus on solving clear technical challenges in the short term.

Until such significant federal stimulus funding is a reality, infrastructure agencies need to manage the gap carefully through repair, reprioritization of spending, and by reducing costs in order to prolong the remaining useful service life of infrastructure assets, writes Sriram Narasimhan. Unsplash photograph by Marc-Olivier Jodoin

Opinion

BY SRIRAM NARASIMHAN

October 21, 2020

Canada’s infrastructure gap is in the hundreds of billions of dollars and the reprioritization likely to occur following the current public health crisis will widen this gap. Routinely, we are reminded of this gap; a burst water main flooding the basement, or a bridge collapse, or simply driving o...

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