Stantec - NETWORK FOR ENGINEERING WITH NATURE

Designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers innovating together to design with communities in mind.

Our Purpose

Our Coastal and Nature Based Solutions team’s purpose is to make a positive difference in the world by creating resilient, sustainable, and socio-economically balanced solutions for communities and the environment. Our solutions embed features that address climate change (e.g., sea level rise), create or enhance biodiversity (e.g., living shorelines), and/or employ green infrastructure investments (e.g., bio-habitats for stormwater management and other co-benefits such as carbon sequestration).

Stantec leverages its established global platform to deliver future, climate ready solutions across all client portfolios and geographies. We work with global and local organizations and collaboratively share the engineered and scientific innovations we have developed, to intentionally seek out tactical strategies that benefit and protect both the built and natural environment. We create opportunity by building trusted relationships with our clients, partners, and each other. Stantec’s international collaboration platforms and communication tools allow us to seamlessly respond at a global and local level. We have proven that the concept of international success can be achieved through trusted collaboration with our clients and technical delivery teams.

Global Initiatives

Click below to explore our initiatives.

Climate Solutions

Sustainability

Digital (Stantec.io)

Energy Transition

Coastal Resilience

Smart Cities

Ecosystem Restoration

International Development

Project Videos

Seahorse hotels: Working alongside nature

What do you do when the man-made structures that are home for the endangered White’s seahorse need to be replaced? You create a seahorse hotel, of course!

Learn about this innovative solution from principal aquatic ecologist Sean Smith. He explains how our Australia team intertwines marine conservation with infrastructure development on this important project. It shows how working alongside nature can lead to remarkable results. Find out how every step of our unique approach, from thoughtful planning to teamwork with scientific divers, helps highlight the importance of sustainable infrastructure and the joy of contributing to nature restoration efforts.

Nature-based solutions: Using engineering and nature to solve environmental challenges

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are a design approach that leverages the positive benefits of natural systems in conjunction with traditional engineering. In this video, our global team of experts describe how we can use NbS to increase infrastructure resilience to climate change and solve watershed challenges. NbS can help cool urban heat islands, build up and improve salt marshes, and achieve nutrient neutrality within catchments. Using NbS can have multiple impacts on communities by creating green space and recreation areas. Our team discuss NbS in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Australia, and Taiwan.

Restoring the coastal resilience of a unique Great Lakes ecosystem

Stantec worked with county officials and other stakeholders to protect one of the few remaining undeveloped beach shorelines along Lake Michigan between Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois.