Future Ready®

With Future Ready we see the future more clearly and challenge our teams across the world to advise and design for this future as well as today.

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What is Future Ready

Future Ready is our global innovation program, challenging and inspiring all our people to advise and design programs ready for the future as well as today.

It’s important as many of the schemes we work on have design lives of decades. Decades, when society will have different needs and technologies, will change. Decades when climate change will bring more extreme weather and also a phase-down of fossil fuels.

Future Ready puts WSP at the heart of delivering a sustainable, prosperous, resilient society. Setting us apart. And bringing lower total ownership costs and peace of mind to our clients.

Read on for more on the trends we’re expecting and where we’ve brought Future Ready to life in our client work.

We analyze future trends through 4 lenses

Climate

How will your project, infrastructure, or community hold up against the effects of global warming, flooding and rising sea levels, and more disruptive storms?

Society

The way we move around our cities, the way we design our neighbourhoods, and the way we plan infrastructure are all impacted by changes in social and cultural norms.

Technology

The speed of technological advancement has no historical precedent. It is upsetting almost every industry in every country, and the breadth and depth of changes is transforming entire systems of production, management, and governance.

Resources

By changing our thinking on how we produce what we need, we can create an economy that allows us to do so much more, with less.

Insights

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Pollinators & Productive Sheep: A More Sustainable Solar Development Method

Implementation of co-beneficial land-use practices around solar power arrays improves upon sustainable energy development in a practice known as ‘agrivoltaics’.

GreenBiz Feature: How Electrified, Equitable Mobility Can Transform U.S. Cities

Phil Jonat brings his perspective to a national audience on the climate change crisis, and ways to proactively address those critical concerns through bus electrification.

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Reducing Fire Risk for Battery Energy Storage Systems and Electric Vehicles

During Fire Prevention Week, WSP fire experts are drawing attention to the rapid growth of alternative energy storage batteries and the need to address fire hazards.

Future Ready Solutions

Great Places, For Life

Our teams strive to create healthy, happy, prosperous places, equipped to flourish for generations to come. We take a holistic approach to planning communities that are equitable, in balance with nature and future-ready, while always taking care to preserve what makes each one and each place unique.

Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure

Sustainability and resilience are critical considerations when planning, designing, building, operating and maintaining the world’s transport and infrastructure systems. Realizing these fundamentals requires innovative thinking and evidence-based practice.

New Mobility

Connectivity, automation, sharing and electric propulsion are enabling seismic change across all aspects of mobility – from the way we commute to how we plan and develop infrastructure for the cities of today and the future.

Future Ready Buildings

Our world is evolving faster than ever before. How do we prepare our buildings for these changes now and into the future?

Future Ready Healthcare

The next generation of healthcare buildings will be very different from the hospitals, clinics and GP surgeries we are familiar with today.

Smart

Smart buildings can be confusing. This is why we believe in Smart, simplified.

Building a More Equitable Future

Equity is a collection of actions that level the playing field to deliver public projects that distribute privilege and foster belonging where it is needed most.

Wisdom from “Future Ready®: Your Organization’s Guide to Rethinking Climate, Resilience, and Sustainability”

In our recently published book, we established a few guiding principles that have helped clients define and communicate the goals of their sustainability journey, and get stakeholders personally engaged in achieving them.

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Featured Projects

New York, USA

Sleepy Hollow East Parcel Climate Resilient Redevelopment Plan

This urban renewal project aims to transform a flood-prone former industrial site into a multi-purpose space using resiliency strategies to adapt to a changing climate.

Staten Island, New York, USA

Living Breakwaters Coastal Resilience

An innovative living infrastructure solution, incorporating a necklace of offshore breakwaters, aims to reduce coastal erosion, revive ecologies, and connect the community to the Staten Island shoreline.

Minnesota, USA

Minnesota Department of Transportation Connected and Automated Vehicle Strategic Plan

WSP USA worked with the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT) in establishing a strategic direction for its connected and automated vehicle ( C/AV) program and determining how the department should plan for and address C/AV across the organization.

Projects

Colorado Resiliency Framework

The first-of-its-kind statewide framework for resiliency considers a broad range of existing stressors and provides a comprehensive roadmap to adapt communities to the increasing threat of natural and man-made hazards.

Projects

Transforming Resilience for a Technology Client

Since 2015, WSP has supported this client along their TCFD journey. We have provided initial education on the requirements, motivations and options for TCFD-aligned disclosure.

Videos

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Name	Size
Alone Together Report 2020	5284KB
Can We Fix the Gap with Future Ready	1537KB
Costing The Chasm_1_The Price of Unprepared	876KB
Costing The Chasm_2_Buy Local-Build Resilience	2587KB
Costing The Chasm_3_Deconstructing Project Costs	1051KB
Costing The Chasm_4_The Behaviour Barrier	666KB
Future of Delivery	17085KB
Net Zero Carbon Construction	5883KB
Safer Cities by Design	9082KB
WSP ECAP 2023 Report	829KB
WSP Future Ready Kerbside 2020	10417KB

Experts

Heather Unger

Future Ready and Innovation Team Leader

United States

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