Publications & Thought Leadership

“Unlocking the Potential of Campus Infrastructure Projects to Build Social Infrastructure for Canadian Communities” is a report useful to universities, developers, and the construction industry. It is targeted at those involved in infrastructure. “Unlocking the Potential of Campus Infrastructure Projects to Build Social Infrastructure for Canadian Communities” is a think piece, conceived and written to stimulate social innovation in infrastructure development. It is a call to action for infrastructure builders to fully mobilize institutional assets, relationships, resources, and platforms to help communities and overall society course-correct for a flourishing future – through the infrastructure development process and beyond.

“Unlocking the Potential of Campus Infrastructure Projects to Build Social Infrastructure for Canadian Communities” invites infrastructure builders to double down on their ambitions to leverage their projects for scale and impact. It argues for a pivot in infrastructure development, where institutions and their communities identify a social purpose for the project at the outset, one that is outward-looking, fosters societal benefits throughout the planning and construction process, and goes beyond meeting their core functional needs to also meeting the needs of community and society.

The bold, audacious aim is for a paradigm shift in infrastructure projects to unlock their full potential to address societal needs.

While it uses the language of campus development, it is equally relevant to any type of infrastructure project. “Unlocking the Potential of Campus Infrastructure Projects to Build Social Infrastructure for Canadian Communities” is a resource for infrastructure developers to accelerate the social good from their investment.