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Metals

Build better batteries: Part 1

By Mark Bellino|June 25, 2025

Battery projects begin with a promise—with the allure of predictable outcomes. Yet the vast majority experience delays or cost overruns, with some facing scrap rates that exceed 20% of production. The past five years have seen billion-dollar investments turn into fragile bets, and investors and builders want to know why.

Build better batteries: Part 2

By Mark Bellino, Steven Angel and Ashleigh Warren|August 6, 2025

The patterns revealed by failed battery projects, whether at the cell, module, pack, or plant level, are characterized by two things: the results of a mismatch between test data and field conditions, and the effects of inaccessible or incomplete data. To realign battery projects and drive successful outcomes, we must identify the patterns and learn how to apply them to practical solutions.

The ramp-up series: Beyond the curves

By Britt MacKinnon, Dr. Terry McNulty, Dr. Phillip Mackey |October 3, 2025

When McNulty’s original paper was published, project owners and engineers already sensed that ramp-up underperformance was common, but they lacked a systematic way to illustrate or compare it. McNulty’s contribution was to plot real-world mining projects against each other, distilling their ramp-up performance into a set of characteristic curves.

Infrastructure

Next generation in advanced train control: A smart response to urban growth

By Yousef Kimiagar|July 18, 2025

In the past few decades, urban populations in North America—particularly in the United States—have grown at a faster rate than their rural counterparts.

Rising cost of the rising sea

By Annabel Sandery|25 February, 2025

Australia’s coastal regions face a mounting threat of rising sea levels. With over 85% of Australians living within 50 km of the coast, the financial toll could drown both communities and budgets.

Revolutionizing Boston's Green Line: Hatch and MBTA's innovative light rail

July 09, 2025

Hatch is collaborating with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) on a groundbreaking project to bring new light rail vehicles to Boston’s Green Line. The first of its kind in the United States, these new-generation vehicles are set to improve capacity, accessibility, sustainability, and customer experience.

Energy

Hatch wins big at the 2025 Canadian Engineering Consulting Awards

October 17, 2025

A triple achievement for Hatch is highlighted by the Engineering a Better Future Award and two Excellence honors at Canada’s premier consulting engineering awards.

Harnessing the power of the stars: Global fusion strategies and solutions

By Steven Albert-Green, MASc, PEng|January 21, 2025

Nuclear fusion—often hailed as the “holy grail” of energy technology—has the potential to redefine the global energy landscape, offering a clean, virtually limitless power source. By mimicking the processes that fuel the sun and other stars, fusion reactions generate energy by fusing hydrogen isotopes under extreme conditions.

Resilient power supply: Enabling the future of data center growth

By John Matthiesen|January 30, 2025

As digital transformation accelerates, the energy demand from data centers is growing at an unprecedented rate. A recently released Berkeley Lab’s report highlights an urgent challenge: the nation’s data centers, which currently consume roughly 2% of the country’s total electricity, are on track to require a lot more power.

Consulting

Unlocking Northern Australia's potential: The role of economic complexity in regional growth

By Giles Tuffin|April 14th, 2025

Australia’s relatively simple economy poses significant challenges for its future competitiveness, resilience, and sustainability, especially in Northern Australia. To address these challenges, the North needs systems-level approaches that helps develop new economic know-how, build global networks, and create attractive new places for people to live. Failure to do so means we could miss the next boom.

Building a sustainable resilient energy future for data centers

By John Matthiesen|March 10, 2025

Sustainability isn’t just about environmental impact—it’s about growing communities, investing in economies, and balancing the energy expansion. Expansion doesn’t occur without risk, and as the focus of the energy transformation evolves, data centers and utilities must work together to forge a path toward resilient, flexible, and sustainable power infrastructure.

Leading change in an unpredictable environment

By Karina Chávez|April 25, 2025

In an increasingly uncertain and dynamic business environment, transformation isn't just a choice, it's essential. Companies that proactively embrace change have a decisive competitive advantage, while those that fail to adapt quickly risk falling behind. In this context, innovation, collaboration, and adaptability transcend mere buzzwords; they are the fundamental pillars of successful business transformation.

Core

Operational readiness: The unsung hero of project success

By Duarte DoRego|May 5, 2025

Operational readiness (OR) is not simply about flipping a switch and starting operations. It’s about ensuring people, systems, equipment, and organizational culture are fully prepared to operate and maintain an asset safely, efficiently, and effectively from day one. It lays the foundation for a sustainable, high-performing operation that delivers or exceeds the business case.

Hatch Named BSI Canada's 2024 Award of Excellence Winner

October 1, 2025

Through this award, the business standards company recognizes Hatch for its long-standing commitment to quality and proactive pursuit of improvement, as well as its vision for innovation and sustainability.

Vale Base Metals receives 2025 Hatch CIM Mining and Metals Project Development Safety Award

May 07, 2025

Recognized for outstanding safety performance at the Voisey’s Bay Mine Expansion Project in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Hatch Wrapped 2025

Thank you for an amazing year!

As we close out 2025, we’re celebrating the stories, campaigns, and achievements that shaped our journey across sectors. Explore the highlights below.

Manifesto Day 2025

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Top stories across our sectors

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Metals

Infrastructure

In the past few decades, urban populations in North America—particularly in the United States—have grown at a faster rate than their rural counterparts.

Australia’s coastal regions face a mounting threat of rising sea levels. With over 85% of Australians living within 50 km of the coast, the financial toll could drown both communities and budgets.

Energy

October 17, 2025

A triple achievement for Hatch is highlighted by the Engineering a Better Future Award and two Excellence honors at Canada’s premier consulting engineering awards.

Consulting

By Giles Tuffin|April 14th, 2025

By John Matthiesen|March 10, 2025

Core

Through this award, the business standards company recognizes Hatch for its long-standing commitment to quality and proactive pursuit of improvement, as well as its vision for innovation and sustainability.

Recognized for outstanding safety performance at the Voisey’s Bay Mine Expansion Project in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Metals

Whether you're a builder, investor, engineer, or policymaker, this series is your guide to navigating the next wave of battery innovation with confidence and clarity. The future of energy depends on better batteries. But first, we need better builders.

Energy

As we celebrate this milestone, we’re reflecting on the projects that helped shape communities—we continue our look back with the major hydropower projects that shaped our energy landscape.

Consulting

Urban challenges like health, inequality and housing are deeply connected—but too often tackled in isolation. Building vibrant communities means thinking across sectors, not in silos.