One thing is clear to our clients: climate change is transforming our reality, prompting us to rethink our actions, reinvent our practices , our investment choices and our relationship with the land.
CIMA+ provides public and private organizations with the tools to effectively navigate this complex transition by strengthening the resilience of their infrastructure assets, and seizing new economic opportunities. By leveraging innovation and expertise, we are making sustainability and decarbonization a key growth lever for our clients — and for society as a whole.
Strategic thinking, proven expertise, sustainable outcomes.
At CIMA+, we offer a strategic consulting and advisory service that supports our clients, right from the ideation phase in sustainability and decarbonization. We create tangible value by combining technical expertise and pragmatic analysis to deliver action plans to help you realize your ambitions and achieve your organizational goals. Our ideas are based on over 30 years’ experience and the technical skillset of 3,500 professionals across Canada. With CIMA+ as your partner, you benefit from integrated, pragmatic support rooted in best practices to build a resilient future.
Our approach enables you to:
- Anticipate and manage uncertainty by defining robust and adaptable strategies.
- Align your investments with your objectives using financial analyses and optimization scenarios.
- Accelerate the transition to sustainable infrastructure by integrating resilience, adaptation and innovation from the earliest stages.
- Maximize the impact of your projects by ensuring a smooth transition between strategy and technical implementation.
- Strengthen the acceptability of your projects through the active inclusion of stakeholders and strategic, mobilizing change management.
Thanks to our proactive approach and nationwide multidisciplinary expertise, we can offer our clients practical, tailored and, above all, realistic and achievable solutions. With us, your ideas will be transformed into a first-rate strategic plan that will become the key to your success.
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION
Strategic expertise to meet the challenges of climate change
With our expertise in climate change, we help you assess risks, comply with evolving requirements and structure your investments in decarbonization and adaptation. Our approaches are rigorous, personalized and aligned with your business objectives, enabling you to make informed, high-impact decisions.
Practical solutions for a sustainable transition
CIMA+ offers consultancy services covering the entire strategic cycle: analysis of GHG emissions, modelling of decarbonization scenarios, climate impact adaptation plans and support for the electrification of infrastructure assets.
Protection and enhancement of water resources
Sustainable and strategic water management solutions
We support our clients in protecting and enhancing the value of water by putting our technical expertise and strategic vision of sustainability at their service.
In an ever-changing regulatory context, we help our clients master the challenges of compliance to ensure that environmental requirements are integrated seamlessly and rigorously.
Our strategic advice on sustainable engineering enables us to design solid, high-performance projects rooted in responsible water management. These solutions are based on innovation, while respecting the legacy of future generations. By anticipating the impacts of climate change, we strengthen the resilience of infrastructure in the built environment, so that it can meet the tomorrow’s challenges.
Technical expertise to meet your legal challenges
Our legal expertise in hydraulics and hydrology also provides essential support for legal proceedings, combining technical rigour with scientific credibility. Whether for litigation or consultation, our approach is based on precise analyses and a proven methodology, ensuring that our clients benefit from reliable and effective representation.
The resilience of your water infrastructure assets to climate change
By conducting an in-depth analysis of climate impacts, with increased rainfall , floods, droughts or other extreme weather phenomena, we assess the risks and associated costs, then prioritize the investments to be made to better protect your community in the face of future changes.
TRANSPORTATION DECARBONIZATION
Accelerate your transition to sustainable transportation
Businesses aiming to electrify their fleets and operations face several major challenges: the emergence of technologies that disrupt existing operational methods, forcing companies to rethink their infrastructure and practices; high investment costs perceived as risky; aging and often capacity-limited infrastructure assets; and uncertainty around the availability of electricity. If you are the operator of a private fleet of medium or heavy-duty vehicles, a public transit company, a municipality or an operator of public charging stations, CIMA+ has the expertise to support your transition to zero-emission operations.
Custom solutions for a cleaner future
Our Strategic Consulting and Advisory team can help you implement strategies to decarbonize your operations and plan the deployment of charging facilities. We’ll help you model your operations and propose action plans tailored to your needs. We'll share the best practices for gradually decarbonizing your vehicle fleet, and guide you through the various subsidies available for setting up your projects.
"At CIMA+, we turn climate ambitions into concrete actions. A clear vision, pragmatic strategy, engineering solutions and change management: our recipe for successful transition and adaptation."
-Anaïssia Franca – Director, Consulting and Strategic Advisory Services – Sustainability and Decarbonization
OUR SPECIALIZED SERVICES
Rely on our multidisciplinary professionals to meet your requirements and expectations. Using a 360-degree approach, CIMA+ provides you with an integrated range of engineering services, ensuring the success of your projects at every stage, from initial concept through to commissioning.
- DECARBONIZATION
- GHG emission reduction strategies
- Corporate and project GHG inventory
- Mandatory or voluntary reporting
- Decarbonization roadmaps
- Setting reduction targets for GHG emissions
- Gap analysis
- Modelling GHG emission projections
- Due diligence
- ADAPTATION
- Risk and vulnerability analysis
- Mandatory and voluntary reporting of climate risks
- Climate change adaptation plan
- Support in adjusting design criteria for professionals
- Studies to define best practices
- CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
- GHG inventory for environmental impact studies
- Support during the construction estimate phase
- Analysis of climate data and ghg emissions
- Financial modelling/cost-benefit analysis for decarbonization projects and adaptation to climate change
- CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- TRAINING
- STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS
- INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
- Risk assessment and resilience to climate change in urban environments (urban hydrology and network hydraulics)
- Pre-project study - Development strategy (phytotechnology)
- Development of action plans
- Strategic water management planning
- Asset management strategy
- REGULATORY AND COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT
- Assistance in obtaining regulatory permits
- Assessment of regulatory requirements
- Analysis of deviations from current regulations
- Verification of water quality compliance
- LEGAL EXPERTISE
- Making concepts in hydraulics and hydrology easier to understand
- Technical advice
- Presentation of expert opinions before the courts
- Analysis of litigation cases: flooding and backflow
- Drainage
- DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
- MAKING WATER MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS EASIER TO UNDERSTAND
- SUPPORT
- AWARENESS
- CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- LOCATION OF PUBLIC CHARGING STATIONS FOR LIGHT AND HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLES
- Traffic analysis of future demand and modeling of future EV demand
- Data analysis to ensure equitable distribution of charging stations
- Analysis of electrical grid capacity
- Modelling of optimal charging locations, taking into account projected demand, costs and electrical limitations
- Grant application
- VEHICLE FLEET ELECTRIFICATION ROADMAP
- Analysis of current operations
- Site visits and gap analysis
- Market studies
- Business model development
- Stakeholder engagement
- Short-, medium- and long-term recommendations
- Action plan for fleet electrification
- Change management support
- Grant application
- ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING POLICY
- Review of the impact of regulations on the adoption of zero-emission vehicles
- Market studies (hydrogen, alternative fuels)
- Recommendations for new policies to support the adoption and use of recharging infrastructure
- ANALYSIS OF CHARGING STATION USAGE DATA
- FINANCIAL AND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS
- CHANGE MANAGEMENT
- DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIZED TRAINING PROGRAMS