By informing and engaging all stakeholders in a way that is independent and impartial we aim to maintain the highest levels of trust and integrity. It underpins our commitment to ensuring we fully understand and respond to the environmental, economic and social context of our work to deliver solutions that meets the needs of stakeholders and communities. Being responsive to communities helps guide decision makers to develop better projects, policies and programs, and to embed behavior change.

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 Involving communities at the planning and building stages harnesses local knowledge and can improve sustainability outcomes. It can help establish a social license for a project, challenge status-quo solutions and deliver co-learning benefits. Involving people in meaningful decision-making about the future of their built environments can foster social cohesion and equitable communities, improving health and wellbeing outcomes.

Designing communities with, rather than for, residents should be the norm.

In each engagement, we carefully create equitable access to the community planning process and develop effective methods of gathering information. We design and deliver tailored engagement strategies to build understanding, create local ownership and to inform sustainable decision making. We have skills in every aspect of the engagement lifecycle from scoping, strategy, design and delivery to interpretation and evaluation.

• Engagement framework, strategies and processes

• Face to Face facilitation

• Organizational development of engagement teams and process

• Engagement  implementation including stakeholders research, focus groups, community events, and complex engagement processes

• Digital engagement techniques that speak to your audience