Stantec’s Top 10 Ideas from 2025: AI to ZenDen
December 18, 2025
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How do AI and SMRs help each other? The new workplace. Why is One Water so important? Those are some of the things we talked about in 2025.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers. The power of hydropower. Adding housing to old shopping malls.
These are just four topics our specialists were talking about in 2025. In total, we shared over 200 ideas from our teams around the world.
And if you’re not sure what a ZenDen is—keep reading. Here are our Top 10 favorite Ideas from 2025.
AI and SMRs. What’s the connection? How can small modular reactors (SMRs) help AI data centers? And vice versa? Jag Singh and Lalitha Krishnamoorthy explain the symbiotic relationship between AI and SMRs in this blog.
How do you improve air quality? It starts with monitoring. Air pollution is a threat to public health. In this video from the United Kingdom, we look at how our team supported a student-led environmental monitoring initiative.
Why is hydropower a powerhouse? In our most-read blog of 2025, Mario Finis writes about the many benefits of hydropower. Of course, it starts with renewable and reliable energy. But it goes much further—including recreation, irrigation, and economic benefits.
How do you optimize the design of data centers? Data centers are the backbone of a growing infrastructure for storing and distributing information. Electrical engineer Amanda Carter writes about how a 60-plus-year-old formula is key to designing for our digital future.
The holistic approach of One Water: The One Water approach is a new way of managing all of a utility’s water sources. In this webinar, Jason Graham shares how to manage water—from the tap, a stream, a storm, an aquifer, or a sewer.
How do we include housing in mall redevelopment plans? In this blog, senior urban designer Jason Beske shares five steps cities and planners can take to help make mall redevelopments more inclusive.
How is the workplace changing? What will it look like next? We dig into those questions—and many more—in our report: The State of the Workplace: Now & Next. The report offers six key insights and practical strategies for the workplace.
What is bathymetric modeling? And how can it protect ecosystems while saving resources? Bathymetric modeling helps us see the unseen. It maps underwater terrain and can help guide planning, prevent hazards, and build climate-resilient infrastructure. In this blog, Alex Amies and Matt Wood explain how the data and the skills to interpret it are powerful tools for today’s world.
Future-proofing Wellington’s water supply: It’s essential to deliver drinking water to a city’s citizens. Doing so in a seismically active, Ring of Fire community isn’t easy. In this video from New Zealand, water engineer Mark Wollina explains how we replaced the Kaitoke Flume Bridge to work with nature and increase its resilience.
What’s the ZenDen? Our designers created a pop-up prototype of a multisensory space. It helps us research sensory environments. In this podcast, Stephen Parker and Gwen Morgan discuss sensory-enabled architecture and why it’s important.
In 2025, we shared hundreds of insights on the trends, innovations, and challenges shaping the built and natural environments. As the world changes, so do we—and we’re excited about what 2026 will bring.
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