Defence officials have started the process of qualifying developers to build an 890,000-square-foot building in Gloucester for Canada's national cryptologic agency. Solicitation documents show the building will be slightly smaller than the 22-storey L'Esplanade Laurier office tower. However, zoning restrictions on the 89-acre, Crown-owned greenfield property at Blair and Ogilvie roads will prevent the new headquarters for Communications Security Establishment Canada from being a tall tower. Join discussion...

In a first for the Department of National Defence, the massive new 775,000-square-foot headquarters for Canada's national cryptologic agency will be built through a design-build-finance-maintain contract, government officials say. Earlier this month, DND announced it intends to use a public-private partnership, or P3, to construct the $880-million building for Communications Security Establishment Canada on a Crown-owned 36-hectare greenfield site on Ogilvie Road, near Blair Road. Join discussion...

John McBride has spent more than 20 years in Ottawa working on public-private projects as an obscure federal bureaucrat. But he is about to move into the spotlight as the federal government looks to boost the economy by spending $30-billion on roads, bridges and public works projects. Join discussion...

Ottawa wants to build billions of dollars of bridges, hospitals and other infrastructure as a way to lessen the blow from the financial crisis, finance minister Jim Flaherty said Monday. Join discussion...

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can be a cost-effective tool for building and managing transportation infrastructure, but governments must be selective in deciding which projects are best developed, the Conference Board of Canada concludes in a new study that examines both successful and failed transportation infrastructure projects. Join discussion...