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 Communication & Community Planning
 Indigenous Services
 Maintenance Management
 Management Consulting
 Project Management
 Sustainability

Indigenous Services

|  Overview   |


GHD's Indigenous services team provides culturally appropriate services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and community groups across Australia.

Our reputation has been built on our ability to listen and consult with communities to provide sustainable designs and infrastructure solutions focusing on appropriateness, constructability, simplicity and innovation.

Our people are highly experienced in working with Indigenous people, organisations, communities and government agencies. We understand and respect protocols and cultural differences encountered on community projects.

GHD's strategies to facilitate greater independence for communities emphasise:

  • listening and consulting with community organisations
  • developing design criteria based on the outcomes of the community consultation
  • ensuring that the designs are environmentally and culturally appropriate
  • providing innovative yet simple solutions which take into account sustainability and long-term operation and maintenance

Services

  • Management: program management, project management, asset management, feasibility studies, business planning
  • Community: community planning, community consultation
  • Architecture and engineering, housing design, water supply, sewerage, architecture, planning

Projects

  • ACDP Program, Brewarrina (NSW)
  • Total management plans for 18 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (Qld)
  • Capital works projects for Aboriginal Hostels Limited (AHL)
  • National Aboriginal Health Strategy (NAHS), 1996-2000 (NSW)
  • Program management for the Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health

 

For more information, contact:

Katherine Williams  [tel 61 7 3316 3649]  [email]

 
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