Lourette Swanepoel, MASLA – Manager / Senior Sustainability Consultant
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 its application to strategic planning, action planning, and design.
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 participated on the ICSP (Integrated Community Sustainability Planning) Advisory Committee for BC. 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. In 2008 she led the sustainability planning engagement process for Envision Wood Buffalo, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo's ICSP, and currently Lourette is managing the Civic Sustainability Framework and assessment for the City of Victoria.
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.
