About Us
Our Mission:
The Infrastructure Institute is a training, advisory, and interdisciplinary research hub at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities. We seek to build local and global expertise in integrated planning for civil and social infrastructure, decision-making, and project delivery.
The Infrastructure Institute was founded in late 2021 through expansion of work under the Creative Mixed-Use (CMU) Initiative at the School of Cities, that promoted cross-sectoral partnerships for mixed-use developments that benefit communities, informed by research on case studies in the Greater Toronto Area. Our work lies at the intersection of real estate, urban development, land use policy, and transportation planning.
What We Do:
The Institute seeks to refine collaboration between public, private, and the not-for-profit sectors and become Canada’s hub for infrastructure training and interdisciplinary knowledge. The team at the Infrastructure Institute does this by advancing goals across four strategic areas:
Advisory Work
Conduct research and design for infrastructure leaders and practitioners
Research
Investigate the barriers to successful infrastructure developments
Training
Train urban leaders, practitioners and organizations
Engagement
Engage practitioners, policy makers and community organizations.
Within this structure, we continue to carry out advisory work with non-profit and public sector clients, have expanded our social purpose real estate programming through the Groundwork initiative, and have begun a series of exhibitions for sharing of our key learnings on creative mixed-use (CMU) buildings.
The Infrastructure Institute is a team of talented and dynamic individuals who bring their hard work and unique perspectives to each project we execute. To learn more about each team member please visit our people page.