See the future more clearly with Future Ready

What is Future Ready

The projects WSP delivers last for a long time, and their impacts last even longer. It is our responsibility to address complex challenges and deliver work that will yield a sustainable, prosperous, and resilient society. Future Ready® is WSP’s global resilience and innovation program, enabling, challenging, and inspiring our people to provide advice and projects ready for the future as well as today.

Our teams consider trends in climate, society, technology, and resources to maximize our understanding of what to expect in the future and when to abide by standard practice or proactively adapt. Whether you plan to develop a Smart building, maintain biodiversity at a mining site, or design a transportation network that will accommodate multiple modes of mobility, our multidisciplinary teams across Canada and around the world provide future-focused advice backed by data- and science-based technical expertise.

Future Ready is Based on Three Pillars

See the future more clearly

We see the future more clearly through targeted research into key trends that impact Canada and the clients we serve.

Develop complete solutions for the long term

We design for today and the future by integrating future trends and novel solutions into our work.

Challenge the status quo

We position ourselves as innovators, through research and collaboration, leading the way forward in our industry and our communities.

Integrating Future Trends

The future that awaits us will be different from today. By thinking outside the current paradigm and considering current and future trends, we help you navigate potential roadblocks and pitfalls. WSP’s Future Ready program helps you consider four key themes forecast to bring about challenges and opportunities.

Climate

Climate change is a global threat multiplier. Rising temperatures, increasingly severe flooding, and more disruptive storms, among other changes, will test the resilience of assets, businesses, and communities.

Society

Growing diversity, rising demands for healthy places, and increasing needs for accessibility and inclusion will shape the ways we move around our cities, design our neighbourhoods, and plan our infrastructure.

Technology

The speed of technological advancement has no historical precedent. It will continue to transform almost every industry in every country, and the breadth and depth of changes are advancing entire systems of production, management, and governance.

Resources

Patterns of consumption are changing across scales and sectors. By rethinking resource lifecycles, improving material tracking, and tapping into more renewable forms of energy, we can create economies that allow us to do more with less.