Aging infrastructure is struggling to keep up with storms, wildfires and a changing climate.
Slobodan Simonovic said when planning infrastructure, builders consider population needs, precipitation and other weather data.
Halifax Mayor Mike Savage said the city’s infrastructure had already taken a beating from post-tropical storm Fiona in September and the ferocious wildfires that scorched parts of the province two months ago. “But the point now is that an event like that’s going to happen every 50 years or every 20 years. And that’s within the life cycle of engineering structures.”
“There is a need to significantly scale up investment to support Canadian communities in making their infrastructure more resilient to a changing climate,” the report said. Shoshanna Saxe, associate professor in the University of Toronto’s department of civil and mineral engineering, said the numbers in the report underestimate the risk.
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