Best Practice
Standards for everyday use
Ontario Provincial Standards for Roads and Public Works (OPS) is owned jointly by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and the Municipal Engineers Association. Of equal importance is the involvement and support of many other organizations representing contractors, consulting engineers, manufacturers, and their associations. OPS have been in use since 1984. Alliances between the noted organizations and the OPS Advisory Board have allowed OPS to evolve into an excellent model of construction standards development, now characterized by consistently well built, cost-effective, safe, and dependable highways and roads in the province.
The Canadian chapter of buildingSMART International has been established to provide the appropriate body and home for Canadian BIM Standards Development through participation in the development of international BIM standards as the voice of the Canadian marketplace and to promote the awareness of buildingSMART International (bSI) within Canada. bSC’s participation provides a Canadian perspective to efforts to realize international standards in support of the goals of interoperability of data, consistency and efficiency in work processes, and optimization of information classification systems.
Intact Public Entities' Centre of Excellence is a tool available to help municipal staff find resources and documentation on risk management and improving municipal best practice and community safety.