Urban Planning
Urban Planning
BC2’s urban planning experts offer expert, responsible, bold, and human-scale urban regulation services. We deliver innovative projects in two areas of expertise:
Support
With its in-depth knowledge of the environment and the various players involved, BC2 assists private sector clients in making informed decisions from the very first stages of a project until it is completed.
Through the mandates entrusted to it, the team ensures the sustainability of a project, contributes to strengthening its impact and participates in the enhancement of the surrounding environment.
Planning
Through its thorough understanding of land use planning issues, BC2 establishes a clear and structured vision for the projects it is entrusted with, mainly from the public sector.
The team develops and optimizes the territorial planning and regulatory tools of its clientele. Its objective is to obtain tangible results that improve the reality of a municipality and the quality of life of its citizens.
Services provided
- Due diligence
- Regulatory oversight
- Approval strategy
- Compliance analysis
- Real estate project support
- Request for a preliminary opinion
- Framework for regulatory change
- Town planning
- Detailed planning
- Town planning by-laws
- Regional planning
- Urban and heritage analysis
- Urban planning expertise in the context of litigation
- Professional advice and technical support to municipalities
Expertise director
Expertise director - Support
Bianca Lavoie
Executive Vice-President, Partner
Olivier Laurent Cazaban
Vice-President, Partner
Carl Carbonneau
Vice-President, Partner
Constance Aspart
Project Manager
Landscape Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Creative and forward-thinking, BC2’s landscape architecture experts know how to build living environments that meet a host of settings and needs. By examining the environment and analyzing its characteristics, they create natural areas where everyone can live, work, move, and thrive in a sustainable and attractive environment.
Services provided
- Square, park, and public space development
- Master plan for parks and green spaces
- Urban planning and landscape integration
- Preservation and enhancement of the natural environment
- Motorway space development
- Visual impact assessment
- Sports facility development
- Residential, commercial, and institutional project development
- Enhancement of a heritage site
- Plan and specification production
- Technical and qualitative compliance study
- Site supervision
Expertise director
Isabelle Séguin
Executive Vice-President, Partner
Carole Labrecque
Senior Director, Sustainability Manager
Guy Tremblay
Senior Director
Catherine Rioux
Senior Director
Urban Design
Urban Design
Knowing that the success of a space is defined by its users, BC2’s specialists design living environments at the heart of the urban environment in line with the communities that use them. Places where architecture, culture, nature, and urban life meet innovation, creativity, and aesthetics. Sustainable environments conducive to interfacing that enhance the unique character of their human and natural ecosystem.
Services provided
- Planning and development master plan
- Planning, development, and design guide
- Spatial organization programming and scenario
- Design concept
- Site development and enhancement plan
- Urban revitalization concept
- Street planning and design
- Overall and project subdivision plan
- Volumetric and sunlight study
- Visual simulation and 3D modelling
Expertise director
Marc-Antoine Vallée
Executive Vice-President, Partner
Gaëtan Laurin
Senior Director
Cédric Proulx
Senior Director
Strategies
Strategies
By developing ambitious, rigorous, and realistic strategies, BC2 makes it possible to carry out projects in the complex and changing world of local and regional development. From economic impacts to public consultation to needs analysis, BC2 offers strategic support focused of the planning issues, challenges, and realities of each location.
Services provided
- Strategic planning
- Feasibility study
- Economic impact assessment
- Positioning study
- Major urban project impact assessment
- Market research and financial analysis
- Growth strategy and territorial foresight
- Project tax impact assessment
Expertise director
Sylvain Gariépy
Executive Vice-President, Partner
Public Participation
Public Participation
By knowing and understanding the community’s opinion, the public participation team creates high-quality projects with grand legitimacy. Using a flexible, adaptive approach, it stimulates and promotes input from all stakeholders to develop planning tools that reflect the needs of all.
Services provided
- Thematic focus group workshop
- Ideation or programming workshop
- Directed interviews with key players
- Exploratory walkabout or guided tour
- Open house evening
- Online survey
- Citizens’ forum
- Website presenting the project and its different stages of progress
- Design panel
- Design competition
- Remote workshop facilitation
Expertise director
Sylvain Gariépy
Executive Vice-President, Partner
Marilyne Tremblay
Senior Director
Sports, Leisure and Recreational Tourism
Sports, Leisure and Recreational Tourism
BC2’s Sports, leisure, and recreational tourism team has unique expertise that includes strategy and land use planning and is based on a comprehensive vision of the various issues of a project. Drawing on the firm’s multidisciplinary expertise, the team develops innovative, realistic and structured projects in order to design spaces that promote the adoption of healthy lifestyles for the benefit of multigenerational users.
Services provided
- Parks and open space master plan
- Planning and development plan
- Master plan for sports and recreational facilities
- Feasibility study and needs analysis
- Planning and strategic guidance
- Impact study
- Design and management of infrastructures and facilities
- Development of tourism products and destinations
Expertise director
Dany Bouchard
Vice-President
Vincent Renaud
Senior Director
Marilyne Tremblay
Senior Director
Inter-Nation Collaboration
Inter-Nation Collaboration
BC2 is building trust-based relationships with diverse northern, indigenous, and southern communities. Through close collaboration with these communities, BC2’s Inter-Nation Collaboration team develops contextualized land-use solutions that promote inclusion and resilience and contribute to the development and well-being of the stakeholders.
The areas of intervention of Inter-Nation Collaboration are complementary and include the general services of BC2.
The Inter-Nation Collaboration team recognizes that BC2’s headquarters are located on unceded Indigenous territory. The Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk) Nation is recognized as the custodian of the lands and waters of Montreal.
Services provided
- Strategic planning
- Space planning and design
- Layout plan
- Housing project
- Planning by-laws
- Geomatics
- Landscape architecture
- Public participation activity
- Economic impact assessment
- Master plan
- Feasibility study
Expertise director
Marie-Pierre McDonald
Vice-President, Partner
Faten Kikano
Principal director for Research and International Development
Geomatics and Cartography
Geomatics and Cartography
By transforming complex databases into mapping materials, BC2 offers tools that make it possible to thoroughly understand each territory. Its expertise and versatile specializations make otherwise complex information accessible to better meet the needs and realities of each client.
Services provided
- Cartographic support
- Database creation and update
- Spatial analysis
- Processing and analysis of LIDAR data
- Design of data collection forms
- Research and analysis of sites
- Web mapping
- Process automation and tool development
Expertise director
Marie-Pierre McDonald
Vice-President, Partner
Graphic Design and Territorial Branding
Graphic Design and Territorial Branding
BC2’s creative talents leverages their aesthetic sense and ingenuity to produce graphic tools that are aligned with the specific strategies of each mandate. Their clarity and didactic nature can reach, inform, and engage a variety of audiences. They format information creatively for the most relevant interface, be it print or digital, according to the project’s needs.
Territorial branding defines the identity of a development project at first glance. By developing brands for geographical locations, such as regions, cities, or communities, our graphic design team lends the territory a distinctive character and shines a spotlight on it.
Services provided
- Map and conceptual plan
- Document layout
- Communication tools
- Visual identity
- Signage
- Illustration
- Diagram and pictogram
Expertise director
Audrey Granger
Director