Introducing the Major Projects Forum:
Where major projects get unstuck.
Where major projects get unstuck.
An events platform bringing together the people who own, finance and approve major projects... to deliver them faster.
The Major Projects Summit
Small, senior rooms in the cities where projects get decided. Starting in Vancouver in February 2027, then across Canada.
Webinars
Short, practical sessions with the people doing the work, on the specific blocks that slow projects down.
Delivered
The newsletter on the projects, people and decisions moving major projects forward. Subscribe here.
Canada has decided to build. Now it has to build fast. That takes owners, government and capital in the same room.
The Major Projects Forum's Purpose:
Accelerate the delivery of major projects
by bringing the people
who decide them into one room.
by bringing the people
who decide them into one room.
founder
Marc Andrew
The Major Projects Forum is led by Marc Andrew, who has spent nearly two decades convening the forums where finance, infrastructure and government meet.
Marc's background spans government and public finance, including as Chief of Staff to the Finance Minister of British Columbia, along with P3s, infrastructure and Olympic Games delivery. He knows first-hand that major projects are shaped long before construction begins... in the quality of the early decisions, partnerships and trust.
Marc's background spans government and public finance, including as Chief of Staff to the Finance Minister of British Columbia, along with P3s, infrastructure and Olympic Games delivery. He knows first-hand that major projects are shaped long before construction begins... in the quality of the early decisions, partnerships and trust.
why we exist
“We've always done it this way.” “We've never done it this way.”
The two most common responses to a new idea in this industry
Canada wants to build again, at a scale it hasn't attempted in decades. The hardest part is still ahead: getting projects built, on time.
The blocks rarely sit in one place. They sit between the owner, the regulator, the Nation, the utility and the lender. Each moves at its own pace.
Speed comes from getting them aligned early.
Several things have to move together:
Speed comes from getting them aligned early.
Several things have to move together:
Approvals and Permitting
Clear, predictable timelines from the agencies that review projects.
Indigenous Partnership
Consent and equity agreed early, with Nations as owners and decision-makers.
Power
Enough electricity, delivered on time, to the places projects are being built.
Capital
Patient investors and lenders who can commit at the scale these projects need.
Procurement and Contracts
Delivery models that share risk and reward collaboration over conflict.
People
The workers and skills to build a decade of projects at once.
Early Decisions
The governance, planning and partnerships that set a project up before ground is ever broken.
Built around the buyers.
At least 60% of every room owns, funds or approves major projects.
Asset owners, First Nations and their development corporations, agencies and regulators, energy suppliers and investors.
The engineers, builders, lawyers and advisors who deliver the work are there too... meeting the people they build for.
That mix is what makes a room useful. The people who can actually make a project move faster are in it.
Faster delivery comes from better decisions, made earlier, by the right people, together. The projects that move fastest are the ones where owners, governments, Nations and capital are aligned from the start.
That mix is what makes a room useful. The people who can actually make a project move faster are in it.
Faster delivery comes from better decisions, made earlier, by the right people, together. The projects that move fastest are the ones where owners, governments, Nations and capital are aligned from the start.
Delivering major projects faster.
Together.
what is
A Major Project?
A major project is a large, complex piece of infrastructure that shapes an economy for decades. Usually $500 million or more, and often well into the billions.
Think mines and critical minerals, power generation and transmission, LNG and pipelines, ports and rail, transit, hospitals and large-scale housing. They're owned by governments, Crown corporations, Nations and private companies, and financed by a mix of public and private capital.
The jurisdictions that can deliver them quickly and well will win the capital.
Think mines and critical minerals, power generation and transmission, LNG and pipelines, ports and rail, transit, hospitals and large-scale housing. They're owned by governments, Crown corporations, Nations and private companies, and financed by a mix of public and private capital.
The jurisdictions that can deliver them quickly and well will win the capital.
