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Our latest Q&A explores the key objectives, learnings, and insights from the Infrastructure Governance in Canada Report

In 2018, the City of Nice in southern France signed a 25 year contract with IDEX to design, finance, realise, operate, and maintain a heating and cooling network as well as to implement a smart grid for energy efficiency. IDEX is implementing this project in the 500,000m2 Nice Meridia district, which is home to office space, retail, leisure, housing, schools, and a hospital.

From robust governance to leadership, discover why Singapore is a global leader in infrastructure.

Can investment in infrastructure fuel economic recovery? Is there a role for infrastructure in the transition to a circular economy? Hear what insights GI Hub's CEO, Marie Lam-Frendo shared in this interview for the official G20 Italy: The 2021 Rome Summit publication.

We look at some options for the US to effectively fund and facilitate the delivery of major infrastructure projects.

In 2019, Irish electricity company ESB was seeking a solution to help them understand the structural health of its 47-year-old Turlough Hill pumped storage station, which generates up to 292MW into the Irish grid during peak demand periods and – as Ireland’s only pumped storage station – has a crucial role in the country’s ongoing transition to renewable energy grid stabilisation.

Improving the delivery of capital works and maintenance of water networks is essential to improving access to water and to do this, we need to rethink how we deliver infrastructure. Sydney Water has done just this with their Partnering for Success framework.

The current energy crisis underscores the urgency to scale up green infrastructure investment.

GI Hub CEO Marie Lam-Frendo discusses energy storage's disruptive potential and how its future is becoming increasingly important in light of the trends in global energy supply and demand.

Discover three trends in infrastructure design and use that resulted from the pandemic and are likely going to remain relevant to the infrastructure of the future.

An introduction to our new blog series on policy implications related to key data findings from Infrastructure Monitor.

We speak with the Colouring Cities Research Programme’s Polly Hudson on how open platforms for building attribute data will help to solve common urban challenges, and help increase the quality, sustainability, efficiency, and resilience of buildings.

Nicholas Yandle, Head of Programmes - Project Futures, UK IPA shares insights on their recent Roadmap, exploring ways to achieve digitalisation, standardised approaches and carbon emissions reductions when it comes to infrastructure delivery.

Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will require massive investment in developing countries. Blended finance, which combines concessional public funds with commercial funds, can be a powerful means to direct more commercial finance toward impactful investments that are unable to proceed on strictly commercial terms

The urgent need for resilient infrastructure is widely acknowledged as pressure mounts on governments around the world to drive a post-pandemic recovery that embodies the promise of ‘building back better.’ Today, we look at what the pandemic has shown us about resilience in infrastructure and what resilient infrastructure might look like in the future.

Latin American and the Caribbean countries have a large, and increasing, infrastructure quantitative, qualitative and efficiency gap. The lack of sufficient physical assets, inadequate maintenance and poor service provision negatively impacts the quality of life of its population and the competitiveness of its economies.