New Organization Looks to Advance Underground Infrastructure Industry

A new industry organization has formed in Canada, with a goal of advancing research and education surrounding all aspects of underground infrastructure. The Canadian Underground Infrastructure Innovation Centre (CUIIC) is in essence a merger of two previously existing groups largely focused on trenchless technologies that worked out of the University of Waterloo and the University of Alberta. The new organization will be based out of the University of Alberta. The hope, says Dr. Ali Bayat, an engineering professor at the school and now director of CUIIC, is that CUIIC can expand the focus that those organizations had. “It has a wider mandate,”