Resources – Infrastructure

This report highlights growing flood risks and costs to communities in Canada due to climate change and promotes natural infrastructure as a cost-effective approach to mitigate flood risk. It summarizes this approach as: (i) retain what you have, (ii) restore what you’ve lost and (iii) build what you must.

This document outlines the purpose and scope of the Climate Lens assessment process, including how to conduct the greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change resilience assessment components and how to submit completed assessments to Infrastructure Canada.

This national guideline sets out general concepts and principles to inform engineering professionals on why adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change is relevant. The guideline consists of eleven 11 principles for engineers to initiate climate actions that support the sustainability and resiliency of engineered systems, particularly for civil infrastructure and buildings.

This guide is a tool to help landscape architects, developers and urban planners design parking lots and manage runoff to limit urban heat islands. (French only)

The Quesnell Bridge in Edmonton was selected as a case study in the roads and associated structures category of the First National Engineering Vulnerability Assessment. It uses the PIEVC Protocol for Climate Change Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment and various information sources from the City of Edmonton personnel, historical weather events and climate-model projections

The City of Portage la Prairie’s waterworks system and the drinking water treatment plant served as a case study to apply PIEVC’s Process and Engineering Protocol to water resources infrastructure. Using regional climate information and scenarios developed by OURANOS (historic incident data compiled by the City of Portage La Prairie were also used), a step-by-step vulnerability assessment based on PIEVC’s protocol was conducted.