Steven forester
Director of Digital Construction PCL Construction
Seminars
Thursday 8th October 2026
Q&A Panel: What Does the Future of Canadian Data Centre Construction Look Like?
1:30 pm
What does the AI revolution mean for the construction of data centres in Canada, particularly as AI sovereignty, clean energy mandates, and grid constraints reshape where and how infrastructure is built? Is the era of air cooling in construction officially over as high-density liquid systems become the new standard? Will nuclear and other low-carbon energy sources play a growing role in powering Canadian data centres in the near future? And how will the rise of edge and regionalisation reshape Canada’s cloud footprint over the next five years?
Join this Q&A panel with leading data centre experts and get your burning questions answered.
Wednesday 7th October 2026
Adapting Construction Planning & Delivery Strategies for Remote, Large- Scale Data Centre Projects
2:00 pm
- Moving beyond traditional construction planning assumptions to address the unique scale and delivery demands of modern data centre projects
- Adapting workforce, logistics, and procurement strategies to overcome the challenges of building in remote locations with constrained resources
- Leveraging new planning tools and delivery frameworks to improve predictability where historical benchmarks and lessons learned are no longer sufficient
