WSP developed the initial design by Renzo Piano Building Workshop to prioritize greater energy-efficiency and ensure emissions will decline as the electricity grid decarbonizes.

“A place for wellbeing and living a good life.” The purpose-driven design of the Inuusirvik Wellness Hub.

Building a sustainable future: WSP in Colombia's role in the Colectora project.

The tallest contemporary wood building in North America at the time of construction.

The Port Lands Flood Protection project will re-naturalize the Don Valley River and realign Cherry Street to safeguard Downtown Toronto from increasing risks of flood and help spur economic growth and strengthen biodiversity.

In pursuit of reducing the shoreline and infrastructure’s vulnerability to coastal hazards, Parks Canada selected WSP to evaluate the state of various structures and address ongoing issues related to climate change, erosion, and maintenance and repair.

When this drainage pump station needed upgrades, the project team enlisted a local artist to design a solution that’s as artistic as it is functional.

Looking to replenish the degraded natural environment of Cap-des-Rosiers beach and to eliminate the cost of maintaining and repairing the damaged coastal road and infrastructures, Parks Canada selected WSP to conduct a hydrodynamic study of the coastal processes and develop several restorative solutions that will limit submersion and erosion due to sea level rise.

WSP was engaged by Forestry Innovation Investment in BC to develop a tool to help promote the benefits of using mass timber. The tool, timberX, provides early-stage insights (carbon intensity, cost, bay-weight, structural depth) for developers, architects and engineers and displays the trade-offs in these criteria with steel and concrete structural systems.

How can the industry plan for a future that may deliver higher temperatures, additional storms, extremes of rainfall and drought, rising sea levels and more wildfires?

An Integrated Resource Recovery (IRR) strategy was developed for the Courtice Water Pollution Control Plant and was a first step towards the sustainability of this 68.2 MLD plant. The study searched for technical solutions to derive value from the plant’s waste and to minimize its inputs. The results not only brought focus to the Region, which lead to the IRR option to pursue further into the design and implementation phase, but also immediate improvements with the implementation of short-term solutions.

The first subway extension in Toronto in over 15 years, the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) was a decade long project. The $3.2 billion Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension (TYSSE) is expected to carry some 24 million passengers a year by 2020.