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Engineers have a profound impact on the development of Canada's built infrastructure and therefore need to be prepared to deal with issues such as climate change that affect it. This report examines the current state of knowledge of climate change issues and responses, and examines the current level of awareness and use of such knowledge in the day-to-day work of infrastructure engineers. Furthermore, it establishes a baseline for the present state of climate change topics within engineering curricula, and looks at what needs to be done in order to make improvements.

This survey, produced by the Canadian Standards Association, polled more than 2,000 licensed infrastructure engineers about their current level of awareness regarding technical issues related to climate change, their perspectives on needs and priorities to address climate change issues, and implications for university engineering curricula and professional development programs aimed at infrastructure engineers.

The CSA in Climate Change Background Report outlines CSA’s role in helping to foster the development of common standards for climate change technology, products, procedures and management systems, and its work on a wide range of standards to support new GHG-friendly technologies and renewable energy sources.

The report also identifies some of the tools and training offered by CSA to help organizations with the four basic components of a GHG Management plan: measuring their current carbon footprint, quantifying and publicly reporting emissions reductions, tracking and identifying improvement and being publicly recognized for their efforts.

To date, Canada has led the world in technical expertise and applications of CO2 capture and storage. As the use of this technology grows, there is an opportunity to identify the framework of Canadian regulations, codes, guidelines and standards that govern this technology. Much of this framework is already in place for related applications, but potential benefits of customizing elements of the framework for the CO2 capture and storage should be evaluated. Representatives of the federal, Alberta and Saskatchewan government agencies collaborated with Canadian Standards Association to summarize the existing regulatory documents, and to identify development opportunities.

This paper provides definitions, data-sets and recommendations as a result of a recent project that was completed in March 2005. The goal was to lay the groundwork toward a comprehensive framework for mapping the Canadian landscape for regulations, codes and standards related to public infrastructure.

This report, commissioned by Industry Canada's Energy and Environment Branch, identifies critical success factors influencing small-and-medium sized enterprises' (SME) participation in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions trading market. Help in properly identifying the critical factors is required to facilitate an SME investment in a project or projects that could result in GHG credits.

CSA manages close to 400 standards directly associated with infrastructure, including oil and gas, a wide variety of overhead structures, bridges, concrete and other building materials. This report focuses on climate-sensitive built infrastructure. Various elements and perspectives are used to describe the issues related to climate change impacts and how these affect Canada’s infrastructure systems. The document underscores the importance of raising awareness on climate change adaptation issues with the standards and codes development community and suggests practical tools for outreach implementation. It also makes a case for access to the most recent weather datasets reflecting new thresholds in extreme weather events.

Launching of ISO 14064 standards for greenhouse gas accounting and verification

Highlights of CSA Climate Change services and capabilities.

Speaking notes for Michel Girard, CSA Director, Climate Change.
Presented at the Engineering Institute of Canada’s Conference on Climate Change:
May 12, 2006, Ottawa Congress Centre