ReNew Canada’s Top 100 Projects report for 2012 includes 30 new projects, representing $29.7 billion worth of construction in Canada—almost equal to the $33 billion invested through the federal government’s Building Canada plan.

At just over $114 billion, the total of Canada’s Top 100 Projects has increased by 18 per cent over last year’s total.

In total, $47 billion was invested in energy infrastructure projects, $15.3 in health care projects, and $445 million on education. Roughly a third of the projects on the list were added this year, worth $30 billion in infrastructure investments.

Out of 100 projects, 60 are in urban centres, with 77 per cent ($39.4 billion) of funding for those projects coming from provincial governments and 13 per cent ($6.9 billion) coming from municipalities.

The country’s new biggest project is Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT Project, which increased in scope, sending it from number four last year (at $4.6 billion) to number one this year at $8.2 billion.

For project details, visit top100projects.ca. For the full list, click here. To receive a copy of the report, contact doug@actualmedia.ca.

Actual Media researcher Douglas McCallum interviews a TTC employee at the first launch site for Toronto's Eglinton Crosstown LRT, one of ReNew Canada's Top 100 projects.

This year’s list of Canada’s biggest infrastructure projects is set to be the biggest ever. Since 2007, ReNew Canada has been researching the cost, key players, and funding/financing information for 100 projects (ranked by cost). This year’s total is the biggest yet, with new projects pushing certain sectors into the lead.

Three Ontario courthouses made the list this year–all delivered through a P3 model. Health Care construction continues to boom, as does investment in transit and transportation work.

For the first time this year, a wind development broke into the top 40.

Look for the 80-page Top 100 supplement to circulate with ReNew Canada’s January/February edition, with extra stats (and honourable mentions!) in the issue itself.

… our new web skins that is!

We’ve updated the look of our Water Canada and ReNew Canada websites and we couldn’t be happier about them.

In particular, you should check out the revamped ReImagine section of ReNew — it’s pretty spiffy. And our Water Canada online Buyer’s Guide has never looked better.

Thanks to the web guys and gals at Geek Oracle for all their hard work.

Every year, it gets bigger and better.

The 2011 Top 100 Canadian Infrastructure Projects report is the biggest we’ve ever made. Heck, the Top 100 is a whopping, 60-page monster of a supplement — making this (when combined with our January/February issue) the fattest issue of ReNew Canada ever. A job well done by our team of researchers and editors – take a bow, guys and girls.

Check out some of our early buzz at…

Canoe
The Montreal Gazzette
Canada.com

We also took this opportunity to do a minor overhaul of the website. The biggest new addition is the Top 100 Map, powered by ESRI. It’s the next step from the Google map we introduced last year. This map is faster and loaded with a lot more content. Click the link and check it out.

ReNew Canada editor Mira Shenker will be speaking at the Word on the Street festival this weekend. Join her at the Canadian Magazines Tent at 2:15 pm on Sunday. As always, she will be charming and abrasive.

You can find out more at the Word on the Street website.

Update: Here’s a shot of Mira addressing the crowd on Sunday.

Hello there potential advertiser,

How are you? How is your summer going? Hot enough for you?

We’ve been in our comfy air conditioned office (not too air conditioned because we respect the environment) making our 2011 media kits for your ad purchasing pleasure. Fancy infographics and exciting plans can be found within these documents. Plus, an exciting new supplement for Water Canada’s January-Feburary issue. Read to find out more. Click on the covers below to be taken to Media Kit Land.

ReThink. ReBuild. ReNew.

Canada's Complete Water Magazine.

It is with great pleasure that Actual Media welcomes Chris Tully as the new associate publisher of ReNew Canada!

Chris brings with him years and years of print sales experience from one of the top national newspapers. With an eye to the web, he’s already begun putting together exhaustive pitches to our advertising partners. Make it rain, Chris.

He also rides a Vespa to work. It’s adorable.

Click on the cover for the full PDF.

ReNew Canada’s March/April 2010 issue is hitting desks this week—and with it is a special editorial supplement we produced in cooperation with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), Smart Initiatives: Building Municipalities of the Future.

The supplement profiles 10 innovative projects municipalities across Canada undertook with funding from FCM’s Green Municipal Fund. The supplement is a perfect fit for the March/April issue, which, like most spring editions, is all about “green.” The difference is that ReNew Canada’s stories take a leap beyond just green: the magazine profiled projects that are just plain smart.

Actual Media is happy to announce the re-launch of www.top100projects.ca.

The site is one of our most ambitious, unique projects to date. The new site features a complete listing of all Top 100 Projects, an interactive Google Map showing you their location, original articles and news, plus a consolidated news section with RSS feeds from various government and relevant agency news sources. Also, you get to see our publisher and editor in our first-ever video.

So, finally, you’ll be able to rest at night knowing exactly how our publisher and editor sound in person.

We’re happy to announce the launch of our newest issue, “Under Construction.” You can read some select articles from the issue here.

This issue comes with our “Canadians at Work” supplement produced in conjunction with Export Development Canada. The supplement profiles 50 international infrastructure projects with Canadian involvment. A useful and interesting read.

Read more at ReNewCanada.net.