Lourette Swanepoel, MASLA – Projects Manager

Lourette has a background in landscape architecture, urban design and community planning. She has ten years experience in the sustainability arena as a designer, researcher, teacher and facilitator.

Lourette has worked with numerous communities on the challenge of establishing a vision that translates into actions. She has extensive experience using the Sheltair Sustainability Adaptive Management Framework (AMF) and it's application to strategic planning, action planning, and design.

She participated on the ICSP (Integrated Community Sustainability Planning) Advisory Committee for BC and continues to provide expertise on integrated long-term planning to communities. In 2007 Lourette managed the preparation of the Visions to Action: Strategic Sustainable Plan for the City of Rossland, utilizing the AMF to develop a community-wide vision, end-state goals, actions, and a set of indicators for monitoring progress. Currently, she is leading the sustainability planning engagement process and implementation planning process for the Envision Wood Buffalo, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo’s ICSP. She is also completing the Official Community Plan for the District of Squamish.

Lourette was also a core member of Team Canada's award-winning citiesPLUS project and continues to provide expertise on integrated long-term planning. She completed a citiesPLUS publication on using design charrettes as a visioning tool in urban planning and presented a series of professional training sessions on integrated sustainability planning across Canada. In 2005 Lourette initiated the Greater Vancouver GreenGuide and collaborated with UBC on the production and design of this illustrated, user-friendly tour guide that documents case studies of sustainability projects in the region.