BuildAtlas Guides
Evidence-backed guides for understanding what Canada is building, how projects connect, and how to read BuildAtlas sources and uncertainty.
Where should I start?
Start with the guide that matches your question: what BuildAtlas is, what Canada is building, how to read the map, how projects connect, or how source confidence and uncertainty are handled.
Available explainers
- What is BuildAtlas? — BuildAtlas is an independent, evidence-backed view of what Canada is building and the systems behind it.
- What Canada is building: a guide to 167 major projects — A practical guide to the 167 major projects represented in BuildAtlas, from energy and minerals to ports, defence, and digital infrastructure.
- How to read Canada’s major-project map — Learn how BuildAtlas represents exact, approximate, regional, corridor, and multi-site project geography without overstating precision.
- How BuildAtlas connects projects into economic systems — BuildAtlas uses evidence-governed relationships to show how projects combine into connected Canadian capability systems.
- Canada Investment Summit 2026: public participant and organization intelligence — What BuildAtlas can responsibly say about the people and organizations publicly connected to Canada’s Investment Summit 2026.
- How BuildAtlas handles evidence, uncertainty, and change — How BuildAtlas distinguishes official facts, company statements, reporting, social observations, analysis, and unresolved questions.
BuildAtlas separates public-source facts, reported statements, and its own clearly labelled interpretation. See the methodology for how to read the evidence.