Envision Canada and sustainable infrastructure
Envision is a framework developed by ISI that encourages systemic changes in the planning, design, and delivery of sustainable, resilient, and equitable civil infrastructure through education, training, and third-party project verification.
Climate change impacts and population pressures have accelerated the need for sustainable infrastructure. Communities have a responsibility to reduce harmful emissions and protect the natural world, to manage resources wisely and create good-paying green jobs, and to effectively address a range of social justice concerns — to name only a few priorities.
That’s where Envision comes in, supporting a different kind of infrastructure development that effectively ties these strands together. Envision provides a consistent, consensus-based framework for assessing sustainability, resiliency, and equity in civil infrastructure.
At its core, Envision is about supporting higher performance through better choices in infrastructure development.
Read: On the Front Lines of Infrastructure Renewal
The foundation on which our communities live, infrastructure provides safe drinking water, powers our homes and workplaces, and facilitates communication with one another. It handles our waste, determines how we get around, and creates spaces for us to enjoy.
These building blocks, in turn, support personal and collective safety, health, productivity, and well-being, not to mention the economic vitality of our cities.
Historic underfunding, however, led to significant infrastructure gaps, which have tended to be overlooked until break-downs occur, with profound impacts on communities.
Public agencies and the A/E/C community are tasked with the timely renewal of these assets, supported by infrastructure policies that have directed billions of dollars towards transportation, energy, and climate infrastructure projects.
DID YOU KNOW? Many of those same companies and agencies are also ISI organization members. Click here to see who is an Envision-supported company or Envision-supported agency.
