Canadian Infrastructure Impact Study

Client:

Confidential

Project Type:

Environmental & Regulatory

Location:

Canada

Key Takeaways

Temperatures Ending Winter Roads

Increasing temperatures are reducing the viability of winter ice roads and access to rural towns.

A Multi-Billion Dollar Investment

Adaptation to climate challenges exceeds $5 billion for the road and rail sectors.

Unknown Risks Raise Costs

The total cost of weather-related impacts is rising as studies start to focus on cold weather regions.

About the Project

Cost analysis for adapting Canada's infrastructure

Analyzing the diverse conditions across Canada is essential for fully understanding the costs of adapting infrastructure to environmental changes. In Canada, this diversity includes coastal, mountain, extreme cold and urban locations. These varied conditions create a significant potential expense to address the climate impacts projected to affect each part of the country.

Resilient Analytics was the transportation infrastructure consultant in this effort, tasked with developing the adaptation costs for roads, rail and bridges across the country. Resilient Analytics was brought into this specific role based on their experience in performing such analyses, including large portfolio evaluations, experience with infrastructure engineering and a transparent approach to the solution.

Resilient Analytics leveraged its existing functions to address the diverse scenarios in Canada. The effort included the introduction of new cold weather impact functions to analyze the Yukon and the Northwest Territories. The team developed cost results for both reactive and proactive policy approaches to provide return-on-investment analyses for each Canadian province.

Solutions

Asset Management

Asset management is built into everything Stanley Consultants does when planning, modeling, designing and evaluating public and private infrastructure projects.

Engineering & Design

Engineering and design services at Stanley Consultants combine our robust technical skills with forward-thinking innovation to deliver the highest-quality results.

Engineering Planning & Consulting

At Stanley Consultants, we understand that planning and consulting include every aspect of engineering. We use the best tools available to create designs and master plans built for longevity, resiliency, and sustainability.

Environmental & Regulatory

At Stanley Consultants, our talented team of scientists and engineers is focused on helping clients adapt to evolving regulations and finding solutions to protect the changing environment.

Program Management

Stanley Consultants brings more than 200 areas of engineering and architectural expertise to our program management services, with program delivery, program integration and project cost management at the heart of all we do.

Project Management

At Stanley Consultants, we offer a broad range of professional expertise in construction management and constructability reviews to meet project objectives and deliver results.

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