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As part of its portfolio, the Canadian Government's Department of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities has established a website dealing with the Canadian Infrastructure at infrastructure.gc.ca/.

What We Do

The CIM intends to promote, integrate, and support the efforts of those involved in improving infrastructure management through professional development and training opportunities. Through strategic partnerships, the CIM will support and enhance the efforts of many existing organizations that represent the disparate professions involved in this venture: civil engineers, accountants, financial planners and managers, GIS specialists, construction managers, public works managers and operators, municipal managers, and those involved in the political process.

Through a combination of traditional classroom-based workshops and distributed learning, the Centre will provide professional development and training opportunities in the following ways:

  • Provide formal education, including credit courses at the certificate, diploma, and bachelors levels on infrastructure management.
  • Provide continuing education including non-credit courses that improve skills and knowledge related to infrastructure management.
  • Support the maintenance of professional status by providing Continuing Education Units (CEU's) by working with existing organizations such as APWA, the Association of Boards of Certification, and Professional Engineers Associations.
  • Produce and maintain practical "how to" manuals for infrastructure management practices that would form the basis for the CIM education and training programs.
  • Conduct research related to infrastructure management.
  • Promote knowledge transfer among infrastructure management practitioners.

The CIM will also target its programs to suit a range of different learning requirements at the functional, working, and detailed knowledge levels. For example, an elected official may only need a functional understanding of infrastructure management topics, whereas a public works manager will need a combination of functional understanding, working knowledge, and detailed knowledge depending on the topic.