Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Climate change presents significant risks to infrastructure in Canada. Much of our existing infrastructure has not been designed to withstand the increasing impacts of climate change, such as severe storms, floods, and wildfires. Further, there is a growing need to address environmental and climate-related impacts throughout the life-cycle of infrastructure projects.

Featured Capabilities

We are national leaders in sustainable and resilient infrastructure. We can evaluate your assets’ climate risks and life-cycle impact, and support you in managing the impact of your infrastructure, equipment, operations and procurement. With professionals specializing in all aspects of the built environment, we can support you with infrastructure projects of any scale in all regions across Canada.

Climate Change, Resilience and Sustainability

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Infrastructure Risk and Resilience Assessments

We can apply nationally recognized frameworks such as the ISO Standard for Risk Management and the PIEVC Protocol to assess climate risks and resilience to any asset type. We tailor the infrastructure risk assessment to your assets and can conduct them at the project, portfolio, municipal or regional level.

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Energy Performance and Efficiency

Our integrated engineering and architectural solutions help you optimize the performance of your infrastructure. We can conduct performance assessments, GHG analysis and life-cycle assessments (LCAs), and help you integrate results into decision-making. Our team are experts in rating and reporting frameworks such as Envision and CaGBC Zero Carbon Building. We can also support you in reporting and benchmarking your asset performance, such as through GRESB Infrastructure.

Asset-Level Sustainability and Resilience Solutions

Based on your asset-level climate risks and opportunities, we design solutions to increase the resilience, sustainability and performance of your infrastructure. We provide technical and strategic solutions for GHG reduction, deep retrofits, energy efficient design, and climate risk management. We can also help you track performance and risks, and choose solutions for your assets using innovative tools and dashboards.

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Life-cycle Assessments and Embodied Carbon

We can conduct Life-cycle Assessments (LCAs) to determine the full range of environmental and climate impacts of your assets, including embodied carbon. We can then identify hotspots and opportunities for GHG reduction, and recommend materials, designs, construction and operational considerations. We can also help you advance LCA-based tracking and reporting, meeting emerging requirements and improving supply chain transparency.

Additional Capabilities

Energy management tools
Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA)
Reporting frameworks and certification
Climate-informed asset management
Decarbonization or net zero pathways
Infrastructure adaptation strategies

Clients We Help

Investors, businesses and industry

We possess the technical skills to evaluate the impact of climate-related risks on your infrastructure portfolio and design adaptive measures that reduce climate risks to your real assets. We can also help you improve the energy performance and efficiency of your assets and operations throughout their life-cycle.

Infrastructure Owners and Operators

WSP’s climate change professionals work in close collaboration with our buildings, transportation and engineering experts to help you manage the sustainability and resilience of your physical assets, levels of service, and project life-cycle. We can help you design new or retrofit existing infrastructure to withstand the impacts of climate change and improve energy and resource efficiency throughout the life-cycle of your projects.

Government

We are national leaders in climate risk assessments and net zero planning for government infrastructure. We can help you understand how climate change will affect public infrastructure and impact performance, costs, and service delivery. Our dedication to ensuring long-term cost savings, service continuity, and high-performance infrastructure is evident in our track record of supporting public infrastructure across all regions.

Real Estate

As a trusted provider to the real estate sector internationally, WSP can help you understand how climate change impacts, policies, and regulations will affect your real assets. Our team of energy modelers, building scientists, engineers, and designers can support you at the asset level or portfolio- wide. We can provide tailored solutions to help you minimize climate risks and vulnerabilities, while developing strategies to improve the energy performance and resource efficiency of your investments and operations.