Stantec's Planning & Landscape Architecture group provides sustainable and ecological planning and design services. From a local building site to neighborhood, community, and large scale regional projects. Our services include process and implementation; urban design and codes; visioning; design visualization; master planning; heritage design; park and recreation design; play areas; recreational and resort design; bicycle, pedestrian, and multiuse trails and pathways; outdoor sports and athletic facilities; healthcare and therapeutic garden design; education and campus planning and design; traditional neighborhood development; transit oriented development; brownfield development; public engagement and communications; and landscape assessment and rehabilitation.
We provide services for the scientific, aesthetic, and orderly disposition of land, design and planning of resources, facilities and programs. Through careful and thoughtful attention to the physical, economic, and social efficiency as well as health and well being of urban and rural communities, we create high-quality and sustainable environments that are functional, innovative and attractive.
Our design process is collaborative, creative, and visionary. We provide solutions through the interaction and exchange of ideas with our clients and stakeholders. Our goal in each project is to provide social, environmental and economic benefits in keeping with the physical site conditions, public expectations and market realities of the project.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Through our sustainable and innovative design solutions, we create inspired landscapes that reflect context and user needs. Landscape architecture is the art and science of analysis, planning, design, management, preservation, and rehabilitation of the land. It integrates and applies knowledge of ecology, socio-cultural factors, economics, and aesthetics to create quality and sustainable environments that are functional, innovative, meaningful, and attractive.
Our landscape architects provide creative and effective solutions to our clients for a wide range of projects including neighborhood and community design, urban design, park and recreation planning and design, resort design, landscape reclamation and restoration, heritage conservation, landscape assessments, landscape development plans, therapeutic design, and design for special user needs.
From concept and design development through to construction drawings and contract administration, Stantec promotes a balance between the conservation of resources and project needs.
Offering creative, technical, and innovative project-based solutions that are economically viable and environmentally responsive, we are helping our private, public, and institutional clients achieve their unique project goals.
PLANNING
At Stantec, we believe in safe, healthy, sustainable urban and community environments. Success starts with thoughtful and intelligent planning and helping our clients to realize their project potentials and an overall project vision.
We recognize that each project is unique, and we work closely with our clients to stay informed and gain an intimate understanding of their project goals. Stantec's planners provide strategies that are flexible and responsive to the needs of the project, the physical site conditions, public expectations, and market realities. We provide plans that are functional, innovative and economically viable.
Integrating the experience of our award-winning planners and landscape architects with urban land engineers, transportation specialists, surveyors, and environmental specialists we provide our clients with comprehensive planning solutions and consultation services throughout the life cycle of a project. Our experience has depth and spans a diverse range of public and private projects, including residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, corporate, and recreation.
Our planning approach can further support the exchange of ideas and an understanding of the diverse voices of the community. Our public participation professionals help find a balance between the various private and public interest. Through effective communications and engagement strategies and a sound understanding of local political environments, we can help to enhance the overall success of the project.
Combining a comprehensive understanding of stakeholder and public interests and the regulatory environment with an intimate knowledge of our clients' project goals, our planning professionals are able to successfully navigate through the permitting process and keep projects on course.
At Stantec, we also believe in creativity, collaboration and experience. Our planning solutions and consultation services reflect the uniqueness of the each project and needs of each client creating lasting value and vital urban and community environments.
Graphic Communication
Graphic Communication brings ideas and plans to life. In order to truly realize an idea it needs to be represented visually. A single image can bring pages of information together in a language that everyone understands.
The Stantec Design Studio team takes pride in our ability to communicate our plans, concepts, ideas and designs clearly, through the use of a variety of graphic tools. Illustration (hand & digital), graphic design and 3D modeling are just a few of the tools we use to provide our clients with the visual elements they need for presentations, documents and marketing material. The Stantec Design Studio is fully equipped to create a wide range of Graphic Communication materials ranging from simple sketches to fully rendered digital imagery.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
Effective public participation provides stakeholders with the information they need to participate in a meaningful way, allowing those who are potentially impacted by a decision to be involved in the decision-making process, and contribute to the final outcome.
At Stantec, our experienced professionals take action to help shape decisions. We work closely with clients to develop and implement strategic public participation and communication plans. Our comprehensive and holistic process provides opportunities to actively involve individuals, groups, and organizations with a stake in the project in two-way dialogue, helping to identify issues, define agendas, improve information exchange, build understanding, and find solutions. The result is feedback clients can rely on to help them make informed decisions on their project's next steps.
We strive to define and manage expectations and create a "common language" for all stakeholders.
Our process can also enhance the client's reputation and relationship with approving agencies and the public by building trusting long-term relationships between those potentially affected by the project and the project sponsors. The establishment of these relationships may increase the project's viability by generating good will and enhancing the benefits of the project to affected individuals and groups.
