Resilience

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Making our communities stronger

From extreme weather to aging populations to global pandemic, our work—professional consulting in disaster response and recovery, risk assessment, mitigation, and design—unites improvements in infrastructure, environment, and quality of life to improve community resilience across the globe. As active members in the communities we serve, when it comes to protecting our homes and the people and places that make them so special, we’re not just talk—we’re actively committed.

We believe resilience is the capacity of people, communities, institutions, businesses, and systems to absorb, endure, adapt, and thrive regardless of chronic stresses and acute shocks that occur. We deploy emerging approaches to help our communities evaluate, measure, and track progress towards resiliency. As you adapt to a changing world, we can help you plan for and envision the future, respond and recover, rebuild smarter and better, or protect and mitigate risk. Resilience is about making our communities stronger, now and in the future, for everyone.

Senior project manager Nadia Vogt has community in her veins. In this video, she shares how taking care of the land and community is rooted in her personal values and history, influencing her approach to every project.

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Anton Germishuizen

You know, I think Sandy really brought this whole issue to bear. I was a resident in Philadelphia at the time, so lived through the storm. When you drive through the communities and see the damage that was caused by a pretty profound natural event, it was a turning point certainly for a lot of the thinking in that region, and I think it's driven a tremendous awareness now.

Brian Larson

My father's house was destroyed through Irene. He lives in Upstate New York in a small town. It basically stripped all its contents: he lost his clothes, his bedding, his books, his albums, his TV, and basically everything.

Bob Seager

We want to create projects that will essentially enhance the natural settings, so we work hard to re-create habitats for wildlife, vegetation that will be resilient, will be able to withstand variations in water flow or temperature, things of that nature.

Lui Mancinelli

I ultimately care about the environments and the communities that we support, that we build, that we live in, and I think resiliency is about making sure that those communities can continue to thrive and those communities are places where  my child and my family live and play and work in.

Stanis Smith

We owe a responsibility to future generations that we're designing buildings that are going to have a lasting legacy, and that aren't just going to be a kind of disposable artifact of our culture.

Anton Germishuizen

I think at Stantec we have a phenomenal opportunity to really have an impact on this agenda. We are a systems-design-driven company. We have a very deep bench with incredible resources to bear on these wicked problems that our clients have to solve, and so it's just a phenomenal opportunity to be able to be here at this time dealing with what I believe will be a bigger issue in the future. We’re going to be seeing more of these needs coming up.

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We understand that the social, environmental, and economic aspects of a community are all connected
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400+
Communities
We helped our clients secure and manage pre- and post-disaster funding.
We’ve worked with states, municipalities, regions, tribes, and special districts to develop FEMA-approved hazard mitigation plans.