Principal and Owner, Calibrate Collaborative Inc.

Lourette Swanepoel, MASLA, RPP, ENV SP, has more than 25 years of diverse experience in community sustainability and resilience, strategic planning, community planning, landscape architecture, asset management, sustainable infrastructure, facilitation, and public and stakeholder engagement. She has been an accredited Envision Sustainability Professional since 2013 and is also an ISI-approved third-party verifier and Envision trainer. Lourette has been engaged in more than a dozen projects seeking third-party verification, and many more using the framework to inform capital project delivery and create broader organizational change.  

Since 2022, Lourette has been working part-time with the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) as the Envision Canada Program Manager. The program is a partnership between CSCE and ISI to advance capacity and use of the Envision framework in Canada. 

Lourette is also Principal and Owner of Calibrate Collaborative Inc. in Vancouver, BC — offering mentorship, strategic advice, senior quality assurance and thought leadership to public sector agencies and consultant teams seeking to improve sustainability and resilience performance outcomes.  

How do you see Envision—and the ERB’s work—continuing to influence the infrastructure sector in the years ahead?

“In times of political change and fluctuating regulations, the Envision framework offers a steadfast ‘goalpost’ for capital project delivery, and the work of the ERB is crucial in helping define reasonable, adaptable, and incremental stepping stones towards building more sustainable and resilience infrastructure.”