A guide to making infrastructure decisions impartially, rationally, and sensibly. A colleague recommended a Brooking Institution paper and it is a great read. Here are some extracts (emphasis and formatting added) from a recent (February 2017) paper from The Hamilton...
Cost Benefit Analysis
Canada’s Climate Deal – “No cost-benefit analysis has been provided, or ever will be …”
Margaret Wente (Trudeau’s climate ‘deal’: all pain, no gain – Globe and Mail Dec. 13) says of the planned carbon tax and cap-and-trade schemes that “No cost-benefit analysis has been provided, or ever will be …”. Perhaps because it is such a no-brainer. Using data...
Do We Have the Ear of the Government? Unlikely.
I’d like to claim that after we wrote about the need for an infrastructure bank in Canada last week, Dominic Barton consulted with us to come up with a “blueprint for Canada’s economic future”[1] and that he took our recommendation to build “a national arm’s-length...
An Infrastructure Bank for Canada
Canada needs an infrastructure bank. Not necessarily to give more, or cheaper, funds to provinces and municipal infrastructure owners/proposers but because we need to ensure the highest priority projects are built right. We need the infrastructure bank to bring an...
New LEED Pilot Credit for TBL Analysis
We’re very pleased to announce that the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has approved a new Pilot Credit - Informing Design Using Triple Bottom Line Analysis - for projects seeking certification under the LEED Green Building Rating System™. The intent of this...
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