Global Perspectives: Master Planning
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Delivering on Sustainability from the Earliest Stages of Development
Fabiola MacIntyre
Senior Associate, Transportation, Entuitive Panelist
Gerard MacDonald
Principal, Reshape Strategies Panelist
Christopher Johnson
Vice President, Building Envelope Entuitive
Our Speakers
Lindsey Kindrat
Director of Sustainable Consulting, Entuitive Moderator
Recap
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 12pm EST
Sarah Surgeoner
Founder, Creative Building Performance Panelist
More speakers to be announced! Stay tuned.
Arsheel Hirji
Leader, Sustainable Infrastructure, City of Calgary Panelist
Ryan Meier
Manager of Facility Planning, Facility Management, The City of Calgary Panelist
Top Ten Takeaways
“At the master planning stage of any project whether it is a small site or large community we look at large, broad goals and sometimes those are really lofty goals, either in sustainability, or in how we build a more walkable community or building. The challenge and opportunity with that approach is we don’t have enough line of site to “the how”, how we are going to implement, what tools are at our disposal and what is operationally and financially feasible. We need to have more line of site to the barriers to success in these early stages of projects, whether its money, the community, the market or approvals process.” – Ryan Meier, Manager of Facility Planning, Facility Management, The City of Calgary
“Finding alignment and consensus amongst stakeholders with differing perspectives on the goals and objectives of the project is a significant challenge. Finding new and innovative ways to not only build consensus but to apply intersectionality during the early stages of planning (that is, seeing the world from multiple perspectives) is an integral ingredient to successful master planning. We can’t plan for all inevitabilities, be they technical or the diverse perspective of affected stakeholders, but our processes need to demonstrate that we evaluate our investments from as many different angles as feasible.” – Arsheel Hirji, Leader, Sustainable Infrastructure, The City of Calgary
“We need a more nuanced approach that is less building-centric, so that the scale of a sustainable solution can be optimized to fit the specific context. For example, the buildings industry in North America has evolved to approach the problem of GHG emissions in buildings at the building scale. There is value in policymakers, planners, and designers evaluating solutions beyond the building scale. If those neighbourhood scale solutions can provide more benefit at lower cost, the policies, plans, and designs should align with that scale, rather than continue to be developed to the building scale. Right now, if you're a hammer (building policy maker/designer), everything looks like a nail (building-scale solution).” – Gerard MacDonald, Principal, Reshape Strategies
“That we continue to focus on the expansion and growth of our cities rather than the revitalization, densification, and repurposing of what we have within the already established boundaries. Our current master planning approach continues to promote and necessitates the use of vehicles. The continued growth of major urban centres is working against any climate change efforts. In Calgary, Transportation represents a third of our cities GHG emissions, and yet our city continues to grow. Master Planning is ultimately a social experiment and sets the parameters on how people will live, work, and play. If we are to incent sustainable behaviours, then land-use and transportation planning must work in a more integrated manner to deliver communities that allow citizens to walk, cycle, and/or take transit within a 15-minute radius.” – Fabiola MacIntyre, Senior Associate, Transportation, Entuitive
“Trying to capture the stakeholder feedback and engage them in the process right from the beginning but also continuously building on that as the project develops throughout master planning multi-phase. Developing an understanding of what’s working well and what’s not working well from all the stakeholders’ perspectives. Agreeing on the common goals and project direction and then how success will be measured and communicated to the different groups is fundamental from the outset.” – Sarah Surgeoner, Founder, Creative Building Performance UK
In thirty seconds or less, what is the biggest challenge you see from your perspective in master planning projects?
What can our audience do to positively influence the master planning process?
“Think about implementation early and often. Also, engage the community as early as possible. A great vision and big goals can easily be stopped by public perception and politics.” – Ryan Meier, Manager of Facility Planning, Facility Management, The City of Calgary
“Have the right team, doing their best work, at the right time. And never underestimate the potential for unlikely partners in helping you deliver on energy transitions. There are many innovative partnership models that can bring stakeholders together early in the project to deliver on success.” – Arsheel Hirji, Leader, Sustainable Infrastructure, The City of Calgary
“Think beyond the building scale. This means thinking about energy systems at the earliest stages of master plan development.” – Gerard MacDonald, Principal, Reshape Strategies
“Consider the projects you are working on today and ask yourself if you know the data points behind its carbon footprint. Our planning and design decisions moving forward need to value sustainability and performance, no longer the lowest price.” – Fabiola MacIntyre, Senior Associate, Transportation, Entuitive
“It’s important to set a common vision for the project and identify focus areas so that credible targets, metrics to measure, and action plan to implement related to cost and sustainability can be set.” – Sarah Surgeoner, Founder, Creative Building Performance UK
Sustainable Master Planning Client Event Take-Homes
In our fourth event in Entuitive’s Global Perspectives series, moderated by Entuitive Director of Sustainable Consulting Lindsey Kindrat, we shift the focus to master planning. We’ll examine how we can deliver on sustainability from the earliest stages of development with our global panel of experts. Topics of discussion will include:
Project life cycle – goal setting, integrating design teams, prioritizing Carbon - emissions through land use changes, from materials and construction, from operations Energy - opportunities for renewables, district energy/co-gen, and deep lake cooling Community impacts – understanding the impacts, community engagement processes, impacts of other projects
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Fabiola is a Senior Associate based in our Calgary office and the sector lead for Western Canada as part of Entuitive’s Transportation team. She brings over 17 years of industry experience in structural engineering, project management, and leadership in the delivery of large, complex engineering projects. Fabiola is experienced in all aspects of infrastructure planning and design, from concept through to construction completion. She is passionate about transit-oriented development and the role infrastructure plays in the shaping of communities. Drawing upon her experience leading high-profile projects, Fabiola understands the importance of collaboration, innovative solutions, and constant communication through all phases of a project.
Gerard is a Principal with Reshape Strategies, a Vancouver-based energy and infrastructure consultancy. A Professional Engineer with a Master’s degree in Clean Energy Engineering, Gerard has fifteen years of experience in green buildings and district energy systems planning, design, project implementation, and policy development. Gerard has led and worked on projects across Canada from the concept development to operations and expansion phases. He is passionate about cities and climate issues.
Lindsey Kindrat is a recognized sustainability professional with over 20 years of experience in green building. Her hands-on approach and knowledge earned her a Directorship with the Canada Green Building Council and a seat on the USGBC Technical Advisory Group. With expertise in planning, design and construction, she excels in high-risk, high performing projects including multi-phase development, high-rise, mixed-use, schools, seniors housing, commercial, institutional, healthcare, and industrial facilities. Lindsey managed the sustainability portfolio for the City of Calgary Corporate Properties & Buildings for 8 years, including planning, design, construction, upgrade and renovation of flagship civic facilities. She then joined Graham Construction as LEED Specialist to oversee the sustainable construction and certification of major commercial projects throughout Canada and the USA.
Sarah has over 25 years experience in Sustainable Building Design and Operation, and a passion for Building Performance. Sarah is a Chartered Building Services Engineer and Dr of Engineering specializing in interdisciplinary collaboration, design optimization, technology application and sustainable buildings. Sarah worked as a Building Services and Simulation Consultant with Atkins for 12 years, amassing experience on projects around the world including the Burj Al Arab in Dubai, China World Trade Centre, Al Sowwah Stock Exchange in Abu Dhabi and DEFRA Headquarters in London. Sarah was responsible for setting up a Centre of Excellence for Dynamic Simulation providing training and support for Engineers across the company. More recently Sarah worked with Integrated Environmental Solutions, IES Ltd, culminating in an Associate Director role and Head of Global Sales. During the 14 years with IES Sarah developed her skills in understanding clients needs and helping them to successfully implement the IES Technology within their businesses. Sarah completed a BEng Hons in Building Design Engineering Strathclyde University in 1995. The Engineering Doctorate was undertaken at University College London. Key experience includes regulatory and voluntary requirements e.g. Building Regulations, BREEAM, LEED, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), WELL. Dynamic Simulation. Energy Modelling. Decarbonisation. Digital Skills. Interdisciplinary collaboration. Building Information Modelling. Building Services Engineering.
Arsheel Hirji is the Leader of Sustainable Infrastructure with the City of Calgary and has been card carrying “agent of change” with The City for the last 10 years. Arsheel is a sustainability champion in many ways, helping to build a brighter future for Alberta’s green economy while wearing multiple hats. In his current role, Arsheel works as part of an interdisciplinary team of engineers, architects, planners and designers to help ensure sustainability is embedded early in the design process for buildings, transportation, and major infrastructure. Arsheel has worked across Calgary’s municipal operations in developing energy conservation, efficiency, and renewable energy investment programs helping improve the performance of Calgary’s building stock and fleet. In 2018, Arsheel represented the new “visionary energy” of Calgary at the request of Calgary Economic Development. This nation-wide campaign was launched to market the hard work of innovators like Arsheel in helping diversify and strengthen Calgary’s position as a world-class city to work and grow a business.
Ryan Meier is currently the acting Manager of Facility Planning with Facility Management at The City of Calgary. Over the last six years Ryan has been responsible for the development and implementation of the Integrated Civic Facility Planning (ICFP) program. This transformational change initiative at The City of Calgary is designed to shift to an integrated approach to planning facilities and sites. This approach results in more multi-service sites with a strong emphasis on master planning and phased implementation of civic facility infrastructure. This Council directed initiative is intended to result in greater triple bottom line value from the investment in civic facilities. Ryan holds a Bachelors of Applied Technology in Architecture – Project and Facilities Management from Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and a Master of Environmental Design from the University of Calgary. He has previously worked with The City of Calgary on implementing an alternative workplace strategy and delivering strategic facility plans. Ryan has also worked in architectural practice and with other municipalities and school boards in the areas of architectural design, capital planning and project management functions.
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