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Capabilities, by the kind of work involved
An integrated municipal practice that can be engaged as a complete advisory team or selectively by discipline. Choose the capacity you need; the engagement lead stays the same.
Seven practice areas
This structure is particularly effective for municipalities with limited internal capacity, cross-departmental issues that nobody owns, or projects where strategy has to stay connected to implementation.
Governance & strategy
Council direction turned into policy, authority, work plans and reporting that administration can actually run.
Finance & asset management
Budgets, reserves, debt, PSAS reporting and ten-year capital plans built on real asset condition.
Public works & operations
Roads, bridges, drainage, fleet, facilities and waste — service levels, programs and the systems that run them.
Engineering & planning
Servicing, feasibility, land use and technical review — with planning and engineering kept in the same conversation.
People & organization
Structure, roles, workforce planning, performance and the change management that makes a reorganization stick.
Project delivery & procurement
Business case to closeout — scope, schedule, budget, risk, tendering, contract administration and QA/QC.
Surveying & geomatics
Construction survey, GIS, 3D models, UAV capture and the data discipline that keeps a project and an asset register honest.
Not sure which capacity you need?
Most of the assignments we take on arrive described as one thing and turn out to be two or three. A service-level complaint is a budget problem. A staffing request is a process problem. A failing culvert is an asset-data problem.
Tell us the symptom. We will tell you what we think the assignment actually is before you commit to a scope.
Ways to engage
- Defined advisory assignment — a scoped deliverable
- Embedded municipal support — temporary senior capacity
- Project or program delivery — owner's representative
- Implementation and change support — follow-through after adoption
Bring us the file that keeps moving to the bottom of the pile.
Tell us what Council has asked for and where it is stuck. We will tell you honestly whether it is an assignment for us, and what it would take.