Planning requires vision. Imagine trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle without the picture on the box! Our seasoned professionals guide and facilitate during the planning process. We help clients understand how communities and landscapes work so they can figure out how many pieces the puzzle has and what the picture on the jigsaw puzzle might look like. We especially like helping people discover how to manage and influence change in a positive way.
We have the technical expertise necessary to complete the assignment efficiently and effectively drawing on the multi-disciplined skills of our staff and consulting associates. We are creative and entrepreneurial, practical and solution oriented. Our working philosophy is based on stewardship and citizenship helping people understand the consequences associated with the choices we all make and our responsibility to future generations.
We start from the moral imperative that none of us has the right to mortgage our children's future. Rather we have a stewardship responsibility and ecological ethic that underpins the way we work. We look at resolving today's problems in the context of preserving opportunities for future choices. Whether we are designing subdivisions, writing policies or crafting regulations our objective is to add value. Our goal is to help others reach for the stars and achieve their dreams. We are also strategic thinkers, pragmatists who look for simple, creative solutions and measurable results.
Inukshuk was commissioned by the Council of Yukon First Nations to provide a baseline snapshot of infrastructure conditions in seven different Yukon First Nation communities. The report identified a number of inadequacies and emerging issues for consideration during the Ten Year Review of implementation funding negotiations with the Government of Canada.
Client: Council of Yukon First Nations
The 2006 Infrastructure Condition Assessment Report (see above) confirmed that implementation funding provided to Yukon First Nations for infrastructure capital development, maintenance of existing assets and program management appeared inadequate. As a result, Inukshuk was retained to conduct a more detailed analysis determining the size and cause of the infrastructure deficit in two different First Nations.
Client: Council of Yukon First Nations
This 2002 plan will guide land use decision making for the next five years. The plan is a roadmap allowing community residents to see the direction Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation (VGFN) Council proposes to go on their behalf. By defining objectives and establishing priorities, it sets out an agenda for action that both the VGFN and Government of Yukon can respond to.
Client: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
Three options were prepared with associated servicing costs for this 22-hectare site at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers. Design challenges included the cost to re-grade the placer mine tailings and provide adequate flood protection.
Client: Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation