Compliance
Savanturier is here to help you. Navigating heritage processes, requiring advice or research on designations or addressing regulatory requirements. The complexity of heritage planning can be smoother with assistance and support. Savanturier can help the developer, home-owner or organization to achieve their goals while also responding to community and government expectations. Services include:
Heritage assessments and impact studies, Heritage conservation plans (buildings, districts, landscapes and areas), Planning submissions, Heritage reports and historic sites nominations, Heritage conservation guidance and advice, Statements of Significance and Statements of Cultural Heritage Value, Terms of References and Statements of Work.
Design
Savanturier understands the relationships between existing places, spaces and buildings and intelligent interventions. From concept to implementation, from design development to construction, we can bring a successful project to completion. Services include: Heritage specifications and design reviews, adaptive reuse strategies and and options analyses, rehabilitation and retrofit advice on historic buildings and bringing the right team together for your project.
Project Management
We have worked on many projects that have been successfully completed. Approaching your project with a lifecycle from initiation (business cases, feasibility studies, stakeholder engagement, project defining & charters), to execution (tasks, resources, communications, critical paths, deliverables etc.), to tracking (progress management, risk assessments, changes, schedules etc.) and closure (acceptance, deficiencies etc.) We work with architects, engineers, planners, surveyors, cost estimators and many other fields to make a project successful.
Research, Writing & Teaching
We have taught students in universities and have extensive researching skills in archives and libraries. We have written hundreds of reports, published manuscripts and completed many research papers. Savanturier has developed course work for colleges and is experienced in instructional design. Our founder, Andrew Waldron, is an adjunct professor at Carleton University’s History and Theory of Architecture, assisting with both undergraduate and graduate students.
Facilitation
Savanturier is here to help you. Group facilitation, professional networking, ideation, consensus building, strategic planning? Savanturier has experience working with diverse groups. We have chaired a range of stakeholders, bringing groups to a consensus, exploring new ideas through collective knowledge and developing outcomes to build on for the future. If you wish to improve your team performance, we can help.
Interpretation
Savanturier interprets and presents on a diverse range of topics and themes, particularly on history, heritage and architecture. We have strong experience and excellent presentation skills in interpretation, offering many tours and activities. We are experienced in cultural tourism and marketing, knowledge building and, of course, fun.
