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Sustainable infrastructure is the planning, designing, constructing, and maintaining of infrastructure to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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The Communities of Tomorrow (CT) partnership has a unique and specific focus on sustainable infrastructure. Sustainable infrastructure covers a broad number of areas that are essential to daily life in communities, some of which are often invisible to citizens. Drinking water, storm water and wastewater systems, highways, bridges, sidewalks and roads are all part of the infrastructure of our cities, our province, our country and the world. Sustainable infrastructure is the backbone that supports healthy, prosperous, and viable communities. Designing and implementing sustainable infrastructure will support healthy, prosperous and viable communities.
With the world's population expected to increase by 2.4 billion people over the next three decades, there will be significant demands on our infrastructure, both at home and around the world. With this challenge comes a unique opportunity. An exploding economy, concerns about climate change and demand for environmentally responsible and economically sound solutions, have created multibillion dollar opportunities in urban infrastructure world wide.
World class products, strategies and technologies are required to meet this challenge. The Communities of Tomorrow (CT) partnership fosters the development and commercialization of new infrastructure solutions for the global marketplace within a local sustainable infrastructure cluster.
Communities of Tomorrow supports industry and researchers working on the development and commercialization of innovative and cutting edge products and services in the sustainable infrastructure sector.
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