Cornerstone Planning Group

50 Years of Transforming Uncertainty into Opportunity.

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Our approach is what sets us apart:

Understanding

Knowing your organization to drive unique solutions.

Personalized

Our process is designed specifically for each project.

Specialized

Our resource model was honed over 50 years of practice.

Independent

We’re planners, separate from architects or designers.

Clients Who Trust Us

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Cornerstone Planning Group has been serving Canadian clients for 50 years from our office in Vancouver.

We are a consultancy specializing in strategic planning for public sector organizations; in particular, strategic organizational planning and the infrastructure requirements that support them. Our work emphasizes long-term planning and rigorous research into relevant trends and service demand patterns. Typical strategic planning projects include facility/functional programming, feasibility studies, needs analysis, space planning, organizational/operational reviews, long-range master plans, and phased development strategies.

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Client Testimonials

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“It has been a pleasure to work with Cornerstone on this project. It was a huge learning curve for myself and I greatly appreciated how Cornerstone and their team were able to digest the hodgepodge of data we provided and were able to distill it down into a comprehensive picture for now and into the future.
Cornerstone was able to draw the user groups into better understanding the purpose and goals of the project and have them leave with an appreciation of the goals and that these were addressing their needs into the future.”
Northern Acute Health Care Planning

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“This is fantastic! If I didn’t already work here after reading this I would want to! One certainly doesn’t think about trying to put our work down on paper in this kind of way usually. Thanks for reminding us that what we do is quite amazing. Cornerstone’s working group was so easy to meet with and so collaborative.”
Specialized Acute Health Care Services

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“It has been an absolute pleasure from our end working with Cornerstone. I know our staff are incredibly appreciative of the work and thought that has gone into this, and we have Cornerstone to thank for that. We’ve heard nothing but great feedback from the staff regarding the meetings hosted. Cornerstone was always incredibly diligent with the meeting times, keeping on track, and taking the time to get to know our teams, allowing us to join the conversations and support the process.”
Community Health Centre Functional Program

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“What a pleasure it is working with Cornerstone. They’re doing a spectacular job and this product they’re developing is fantastic. We obviously picked the right people!”
Public Safety Facility Planning

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“Cornerstone is incredibly knowledgeable in the clinical area and it really reflects in the questions they asked the teams in our working groups and information they were able to draw out of everyone. We discovered key operational requirements we didn’t know before. I am super excited for the next phase.
The visioning session was very inspiring and it pushed our entire team to think bigger and bolder about our future and opportunities ahead of us. I loved how it brought our team together and created a shared vision that we didn’t have before.”
Outpatient Oncology Clinical and Facility Planning

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“Full agreement on how useful Cornerstone’s work has been and will be for our future plans (and hopes!). All comments from the Board to me were 100% positive and appreciative. We will definitely re-engage when the time is right and decide on the next work we can do together.”
Community Service Needs Assessment Study

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“It has been an excellent process from my perspective and I very much appreciate the collaboration efforts. I feel we have received amazing value on this project.”
Government Workplaces Accommodation Strategy

Multiple Generations Of Experience

We maintain a compact and reliable team who have the experience and multi-disciplinary backgrounds to achieve results and deliverables and stay on schedule and on budget. This broad set of skills enable our teams to operate creatively in a wide variety of project and organizational contexts. Our office is located in Vancouver.

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Services and offerings we provide for businesses and communities.

Cornerstone assists organizations in making effective strategic and development decisions during periods of change. We provide our clients with the best possible tools to ensure that they have the resources to meet their mandates in an ever-changing environment. We work with a variety of clients on a range of projects; our key areas of expertise are the following: infrastructure planning, organization planning, engagement, Indigenous community service & infrastructure planning, and community & interest holder engagement.

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Infrastructure Planning

Defining space requirements for all types of infrastructure, in new builds and renovations. A good facility program defines a project well and early, from one building to a whole asset portfolio.

Organizational Planning

Sometimes, uncertainty can feel more overwhelming than opportunity. Our flexible resource modeling and experience supporting unique organizations with a variety of mandates and clientele helps us to create space for opportunity to be rediscovered.

Indigenous Community Service & Infrastructure Planning

Cornerstone’s community planning experts have worked with dozens of Indigenous communities and organizations across Canada to help define and achieve strategic visions, goals and objectives based on their values, traditions, culture and capacity.

Community & Interest Holder Engagement

To help clients define and create places that have meaning and value, Cornerstone undertakes engagement with internal organizational stakeholders, interest groups, and the general public. We work with clients to identify key stakeholders and mold our approach to the budget, audience, and required outcomes of the engagement.

We’ve Helped Multiple Organizations Achieve Their Mandates.

Cornerstone specializes in strategic planning for public sector organizations; in particular, the infrastructure and organizational requirements that support them. Cornerstone has designed and carried out over 1,000 projects in support of a wide range of high-profile planning initiatives for the public and private sector organizations throughout Western Canada.

Our projects span sectors, from health to education, communities to operations, justice to fire halls. We service partners in government, Indigenous communities, and the private sector.

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