Communities of Tomorrow is building partnerships to create sustainable communities. We bring together businesses, researchers and municipalities to develop innovative new infrastructure solutions. We support their work by providing funding, market research and commercialization expertise to make it all happen.
Municipalities like yours are on the front line of an incredible infrastructure challenge. There are only two ways to meet this challenge: spend more of your limited budgets on infrastructure; or find better, more cost-effective solutions to your everyday infrastructure problems. That’s where Communities of Tomorrow comes in.
Our work holds tremendous potential for municipalities and their taxpayers through:
- Cost-effective infrastructure solutions enabling your capital budgets to stretch farther.
- Greener technologies reducing our impact on the environment and helping to build sustainable communities.
- The ability to access leading-edge infrastructure technologies before anyone else on the planet.
- Enhancing the reputation of your community as a leader in advancing sustainable infrastructure
CT is interested in building strong partnerships with Saskatchewan municipalities of all sizes. Because you work with infrastructure every day, you can be a great source of ideas for new products and technologies that could be developed for the municipal market. With the infrastructure foundations you already have in place, you can help researchers test their new innovations in a real-life setting, gaining input from municipal practitioners who deal with these issues regularly.
So explore our website, give us a call – or better yet, stop by and see us. We’re interested in helping your community and others like it successfully meet their infrastructure challenges.
Here’s just one example of our work.
How beneficial would it be for your municipality to actually know where a water line was going to break before it actually happens? One of the innovations CT is sponsoring is a “pipe crawler” – an electronic device that can work its way through pipes while they are still in operation and detect structural problems and weaknesses from the inside out.
Imagine being able to plan for a pipe replacement months in advance. No sudden, unplanned service disruptions for residents. No undue expense replacing lines that still have life left in them. Talk about an advantage for capital budgeting and planning!
Because of CT’s support, it’s hopeful this technology will soon be perfected and available to municipalities around the world. The market potential? North America alone has over 1.5 million kilometres of water transmission pipes – over half of which are 60-plus years old!
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