CITY OF IQALUIT

Purpose

An Above- and Below-Ground Study relating to effects of Permafrost Degradation on the City's Utilidor infrastructure. The prjoect involves a research partnership with the National Research Council Canada (NRC) which will investigate the impacts of climate change on permafrost degradation, and its effects on the City of Iqaluit's underground Utilidor infrastructure. The project will also investigate the long-term viability of the underground Utilidor infrastructure, while assessing the practicality of above-ground infrastructure as an alternative to limiting the impacts of climate change on the degradation of permafrost. This activity will consider a feasibility level study that will investigate the comparison of both alternatives from a technical, constructability, environmental, and financial standpoint.