GDP Read online Alex Carrick dcnonl.com/news/economic Daily Commercial News by Construct Connect® NOVEMBER 20, 2018 www.dailycommercialnews.com VOL. 91 NO. 224 $5.23 plus HST ALERT! Smart cities need trust, communication to succeed: panel In the event of a Canada Post strike, WARREN FREY you will have access to a digital copy implement technological solutions. DIGITAL MEDIA EDITOR of the Daily Commercial News: CIBC Square Rises “It’s much easier to buy Zambo- www.dailycommercialnews.com/ mart cities are brimming nis and photocopiers for a munici- issue with potential but come pality than machine learning soft- with caveats. ware,” Robinson said. If you have any questions please S A group of smart city experts Gunnar Edwin Crawford, the contact our Customer Relations team spoke at a panel during the Cana- head of the city of Stavanger, Nor- at 1-800-959-0502. dian Council for Public-Private way’s smart city project, said the Partnerships recent national con- biggest challenge in creating a ference held in Toronto. road map document involving The group picked apart the chal- academia, the private sector and In Brief lenges and potential of “upgrading” other participants was a lack of a city from both a technological communication. Governments announce and societal standpoint. “It’s hard. You have all these One of the major challenges experts, but they don’t talk to one new Inuvik wind project of building a smart city or com- another,” he said, adding he “spent INUVIK, N.W.T. munity is defining it, said World 70 per cent of the time trying to Representatives from three levels of Bank senior director of social, break down barriers.” government have announced $40 mil- urban, rural and resilience global Crawford said opening data lion in funding for the Inuvik Wind practice Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez. streams was also important. Generation project. It’s the first project “There’s 100 definitions for a “We want to be transparent, but under the Government of Canada’s new smart city, and we tried to just it also lets the private sector look Arctic Energy Fund, which supports look at what was working well,” at our data and find solutions,” he energy security in Northern communi- Ijjasz-Vasquez said. said. ties, said a recent statement. Various stakeholders exist in An office has been established The project will develop an energy silos that don’t talk to each other, by the city and is testing out a system that will include the installation he added, but technology can act “shotgun approach” to test which of wind turbines, a grid controller and a as an impetus to begin dialogue. smart city development methods large battery storage system to generate “Technology alone doesn’t work for them. energy when the wind is not in force. It solve anything, but interconnect- “We don’t know right now what also includes the construction of a five- edness becomes really important,” a smart city will be used for, but we kilometre access road from Dempster Ijjasz-Vasquez said. see the potential,” Crawford said. Highway to the project site and connec- He added technology can also Robinson said there is a ten- tions to the local electric grid. change the relationship between a dency to look at smart city solu- The federal government is spending city and its citizens. tions as a template that responds $30 million on the project through the “You go from communication to the needs of communities WILLIAM CONWAY/PROGRESS PHOTOGRAPHY Arctic Energy Fund and the Government through elections every four years regardless of location or regional of the Northwest Territories is contribut- Work continues on the first phase of the new CIBC Square on Bay to real time, two-way conversa- Street in Toronto. The joint development is by Ivanhoe Cambridge conditions. ing the remaining $10 million. and Hines and it is being constructed by EllisDon Ltd. The work tion indicating what citizens need,” “So you have to be ‘smart city- “This announcement is one step for- includes a 49-storey office building, a podium with retail and three he said. ish’ and reproduce the spirit of the ward towards our government’s long- levels of underground parking along with a new Metrolinx GO Bus Ryerson University School of project, but adapt for each com- term vision and approach to energy Terminal. A one-acre elevated park will be built above the rail cor- Urban and Regional Planning asso- munity,” she said. and climate change that will enable the ridor connecting the two phases and an extension to the PATH ciate professor Pamela Robinson “The most important thing is N.W.T. to transition to a strong, healthy pedestrian walkway system linking it to the Air Canada Centre and said she is engaged in two research to document the failures,” Ijjasz- economy that is less dependent on fos- Union Station. The project is targeting LEED Platinum certification projects, one to determine if smart Vasquez added. “One of the most sil fuels,” commented N.W.T. Minister with completion scheduled for 2020. The architects are Adamson cities are “smart for all, or only for Associates Architects of Toronto along with Wilkinson Eyre Archi- difficult parts of a partnership is of Infrastructure and Minister of Indus- tects of London, England. Consultants are: Read Jones Christof- some,” and the other studying the to tell what didn’t work.” try, Tourism and Investment Wally fersen (structural); The Mitchell Partnership (mechanical); Mulvey future of artificial intelligence (AI) Technology itself can get ahead Schumann in the statement. & Banani International (electrical); and WSP Canada Inc. (geo- and machine learning software for of a smart project, he said, citing a DCN NEWS SERVICES technical). Subtrades include: GFL Environmental (site work); The municipalities. project in India where the World Structural Group (concrete); Walters Group Inc. (structural steel); City departments are generally Bank advised on installation of Maple Terrazzo Marble & Tile Partnership (stone/tile); Plan Group not familiar with AI, she said, and “last mile” telephone poles. Inc. 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