Professional Services

At ISL, we take a strategic approach to consultation and communications. Benefits to clients include increasing the ability to manage complex initiatives efficiently, address implementation issues proactively, and maximize effectiveness of project impacts and outcomes.

We provide a comprehensive suite of tools that facilitate the understanding, sharing, and use of good information, to help clients make informed decisions. Our professionals focus their knowledge and expertise on developing and implementing client-tailored public consultation strategies and processes. We design creative communications tools and techniques. We identify and analyze project needs, issues and data through inclusive community and stakeholder engagement. And, we create compelling text, imagery, and materials that reliably and dynamically communicate project milestones and results to clients, stakeholders and the public.

Professional support services are available across all of ISL's service lines, including all phases of engineering, planning, and landscape architecture projects.

Public Consultation

• Design, facilitate, analyze, and document public and stakeholder engagement processes
• Steering committee and advisory group processes
• Moderated sessions, interviews, facilitated workshops, and open houses
• Print and electronic surveys
• Conduct, analyze, and synthesize research to guide formulation of recommendations
• Structured evaluations of programs and initiatives
• Needs assessments and gap analyses

Communications

• Design and manage custom communications programs and tools
• Provide professional writing and creative design for print, web, email, and multi-media tools
• Collect, analyze, synthesize, and document public and stakeholder input
• Prepare customized project reporting and updates
• Develop and implement media strategies including project launches, media briefings, kits and releases, and advertising

Graphic Design and Visualization Services

• Design and develop public consultation and communications products including display panels, posters, banners, advertising, and signage
• Provide creative design and custom illustration for visual identity tools including logos and related branding elements
• Develop 3D modeling of concept plans and detail designs using real world data for project decision making, design evaluation, and public consultation
• Prepare multimedia and 3D interactive solutions for training, presentations, and web-based applications; 3D/image compositing with real world data; virtual tours; NavIS realtime 3D; and interactive Flash 2D/3D graphics