Three Steps To Ensure Your Infrastructure Project Is Shovel-Ready And Shovel-Worthy

With an expected $125 Billion in extra federal funding for infrastructure over the next 10 years, infrastructure has become as sexy as tech....well maybe not quite.  A wastewater project is never going to capture the public eye like an app that helps track the best tasting beer but it is fair to say the public benefit may be somewhat greater. There is also an immediate need for infrastructure spending, particularly in terms of recapitalizing existing infrastructure. The 2016 Canadian Infrastructure Report Card notes that "one third of our municipal infrastructure is in fair, poor, or very poor condition, increasing the risk of service disruption."

The problem lies in projects that are shovel-ready and shovel-worthy. There were hundreds of millions left unspent from the previous government's infrastructure program because infrastructure projects take time to plan properly, depending on their size which can take several years. In order to inject this infrastructure