The Department of Highways and Public Works’ Property Management Division (PMD) is responsible for capital projects within the unincorporated communities of Yukon. Each unincorporated community has a fire hall that supports fire response services using a volunteer staffing model. To ensure that PMD is in a position to respond to community fire response and prevention needs without performing costly facility studies in each location, they engaged Cornerstone Planning Group to prepare a scalable functional program and supporting business case.
Background
Process
Cornerstones approach to complete this project included: strategic stakeholder consultation sessions, policy, guidelines and standards review, staff workflow and activity analysis, functional program and scenario development and capital and life cycle cost estimation.
Solution
The final deliverables for this project included a functional program for a community fire hall including multiple service add-ons and a business case that presents the associated costs, project risks and recommended procurement model.
The Results
The documents, guidelines and tools developed by Cornerstone are currently being used by PMD to support their capital planning and community planning processes.
