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Sandford Fleming Forum

The last Forum “Minimising Loss, Accelerating Recovery in Commercial Real Estate” took place as an on-line panel on Thursday, May 28, 2020. Emerging technologies and guidelines to tackle current and future challenges were presented.

Resilience in the Commercial Real Estate Industry

Watch here the “Resilience in the CRE Industry” video by BOMA Toronto featuring CRCI’s Dr. Alec Hay and Toronto’s Chief Resilience Officer Elliott Cappell.

Climate Change and Tall Buildings

Read more about Professor Mercan’s research on how increasing wind loads due to climate change affect modern cities with their ever taller buildings.

After the Flood

Exploring Operational Resilience. Latest Publication by Professor Alec Hay. To order please click here.

Balancing Protection and Resilience

Read here the latest crci research on balancing protection and resilience.

What is Infrastructure?

Find out how the CRCI defines it.

About CRCI

The Centre for Resilience of Critical Infrastructure (CRCI) is an initiative of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering to advance the field of infrastructure engineering and the understanding and practice of infrastructure resilience. The CRCI builds upon the University’s existing world-class reputation in engineering and the built environment, bringing together expertise in research and practice from around the world, across government, academia and industry.

The CRCI structure and philosophy is based upon the government’s identified vision for future Canadian capability. The Centre was established due to the government concern that there exists a lack of competent skills and practice of resilience planning in Canada and a lack of professional understanding of the requirements. The CRCI was established to identify competencies amongst stakeholders, while the Sandford Fleming Forum seeks to address the issue of understanding by engaging directly with the professional community of governments, clients, consultants and academia to promote discussion on current and emerging threats and concepts.

Infrastructure In the News

Why did Canada’s GDP and Energy Use Diverge after 1995?

Fascinating poster by Torrie et al.


Before the Next One

The inter-connected nature of urban resilience planning and what this means to asset managers


Bounce Forward - Urban Resilience in the Era of Climate Change

A Strategy Paper from Island Press and The Kresge Foundation


Sink, Swim or Tread Water

Adapting Infrastructure to Extreme Weather Events, an Excerpt from the ECO 2014 Annual Greenhouse Gas Progress Report

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