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Landscape Aesthetics & Visual Impact Assessment

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Visual Resource Management Consultants / K.B. Fairhurst, PhD, RPF, Owner

KB Fairhurst, PhD, RPF, owner and CEO of RDI Resource Design Inc, Vancouver BC Canada.

K.B. (Ken) Fairhurst, PhD, RPF Founder and Owner

K.B. Fairhurst is a Visual Resource Management and Landscape Visual Impact Assessment Specialist continuously involved since 1980: as one of the original landscape foresters in British Columbia's Ministry of Forests until 1996 and running RDI Resource Design Inc ever since.  RDI is celebrating our 26th year in 2022! 

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K. B. Fairhurst - an earlier history and Corporate Resume

Ken launched his forestry career as a timber cruiser during the summers with BC Forest Products while at UBC Forestry as one of the great class of '68, and as the Reforestation Forester with BC Forest Products following graduation. Ken returned to UBC to earn his Masters of Science (Forestry - Parks and Recreation) awarded in 1980. Pursuing his new interest in Visual Resource Management, he was offered the new position of Landscape Forester for the Vancouver Forest Region, working directly with the original Landscape Forester for BC - W. H. (Pem) van Heek. He formed a precursor to RDI briefly in the '80s called Urbanforest Consultants focused on, as might be expected, urban forestry. He once spent a season as part of the Forestry Crew in Stanley Park. The company became RDI Resource Design Inc in 1996. Much later, while still running RDI, Ken returned to UBC to earn his Doctorate in Forest Resources Management which he was awarded in 2010, intensifying the same theme of his career interests. He has now racked up fully 42 progressive years in his chosen discipline of Visual Resource Management.

Corporate Resume 2023

About Us

Forest Landscape Aesthetics Planning and Visual Impact Assessments are our Specialty

Visual Resource Management and Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment have always been key components Forest Landscape Planning, Analysis and Design in BC, USA, UK and further afield.  The concept of forest aesthetics was defined by Heinrich von Salisch, a forester who lived in Postel, a hamlet north of Breslau, Silesia, in what was then Germany, in his book Forestasthetik first published in 1885, with revisions in 1902 and 1911 and translated into English by Walter I. Cook and Doris Wehlau (Forest History Society, 2008) and is available at https://foresthistory.org/other-books/forest-aesthetics/. Von Salisch stressed an integrated resource management approach merging the aesthetic with the ecologic when managing the multiple demands on forest and open space resources. The same approach is required when managing urban forest resources.


Now that BC now has a "new" resource management initiative in British Columbia called Forest Landscape Planning, I look forward to continued and increased integration of visual / ecological / First Nations values in the landscape. Though not directly addressed by the panel on Forest Landscape Planning at the 2020 ABCFP AGM, Visual Quality is one of the 11 FRPA values being maintained and likely expanded upon in Forest Landscape Planning. 


A new "Visual Impact Assessment Handbook", released in May of this year is available for downloading at: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/farming-natural-resources-and-industry/forestry/visual-resource-mgmt/visual_impact_assessment_handbook.pdf


A broader consideration - Proforestation - keeping intact forests to ecological potential to maximize nature-based biological carbon sequestration, biodiversity, water quality, air quality, flood and erosion control, public health, low-impact recreation, and scenic beauty - Frontiers in Forests and Climate Change:  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00027/full 


RDI provides practical solutions for meeting Visual Quality Objectives (now VQ Requirements) which are strongly centered in ecological objectives at the forest landscape level. 


The Association of BC Forest Professionals (ABCFP), back-linked on our Connections page, offers four excellent Visual Resource Management training modules on their website for members. See our VRM Publications page for the link. Included in Module 4 - "Assessing the Design" is a link to the 2018 draft "Guidance for Forest Professionals Practicing in Visual Resource Management". RDI has provided a link to this important document as well as links to ABCFP Ethical and Professional Conduct Standards to which RDI adheres when conducting Visual Resource Management assessments and reviews (see yellow highlighted links below).  KB Fairhurst, RPF, has been a Registrant of the ABCFP since 1981. 


With old-growth forests very much a topic of discussion in BC today, the Wilderness Committee has published a sophisticated interactive map of old-growth deferrals, other old-growth, and related development plans covering the entire province which should help inform these discussions.


You are viewing rdi3d.ca which is our primary website. You can still view our original website at rdi3d.com where you will find more links and great pictures.

 

 

We provide expert-level professional guidance for mitigating or avoiding visual impacts

RDI  has the knowledge and expertise to derive practical solutions to meet Visual Quality Objectives. 

Stanley Park Seawall - English Bay Vancouver

RDI's VRM Contracts with the BCTS are set to span 15 continuous great years

RDI was awarded a new VRM contract with BC Timber Sales in February, 2022. The contract extends RDI's specialist involvement with the Kamloops Business Area for up to 3 more years, which will bring us up to 15 continuous years of service with the BCTS KBA in 2025! 


Our bid, the lowest of 8 submitted, is fully achievable only by offering comprehensive GIS services and 3-D Visualization technology combined with expert knowledge all under one small roof. Doing what you really enjoy, where you enjoy it, living and working one city block from Stanley Park in Vancouver with all of its trees, wildlife, seawall, beaches, Vancouver Rowing Club, and fresh air, everyday, also helps. See more under the VIA tab.

Stanley Park's Mature Conifer Forest Under Attack

Stanley Park - Photos and More

Association of BC Forest Professionals - VRM Guidance

DRAFT-VRM-Guidance-for-ABCFP-Member-Comment-January2018 (pdf)Download
ABCFP_Bylaw 9_ Standards of Ethical and Professional Conduct (pdf)Download
ABCFP_Code_of_Ethical_and_Professional_Conduct (pdf)Download

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RDI's operations offices are not open to visitors. Our location on Denman Street near Stanley Park is only for mail and package receiving at the reception desk of Gohren and Associates, CPA. We will gladly meet our clients at  the local Blenz Coffee on Denman Street in Vancouver (our treat).

RDI Resource Design Inc

#116 - 845 Denman Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6G 2L7, Canada

01.604.689.3195 / rdi@rdi3d.ca Websites: rdi3d.ca / rdi3d.com

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07:00 a.m. – 05:00 p.m.

Corporate CV and Resume of KB Fairhurst

RDI_Fairhurst_Resume_2022 (pdf)Download

Find us on the Web!

ResearchGate has a link for kb fairhurst at  https://www.researchgate.net  

View Kenneth B. Fairhurst's LinkedIn page at 

 https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-b-fairhurst-phd-rpf-665628a4 

Type in "kb fairhurst" or "rdi fairhurst" in a browser such as DuckDuckGo, Brave, or Google.                

You can also find our listings and links with either "fairhurst" or "rdi" and any one of these initialisms, acronyms, or phrases: 

vqo = Visual Quality Objective; 

vns = Visual Nature Studio; 

vrm = Visual Resource Management;   

via = Visual Impact Assessment; 

vli = Visual Landscape Inventory;  

bcts = BC Timber Sales;

wfca = Western Forestry and Conservation Association (USA); 

calp = Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning at UBC; 

abcfp = Association of British Columbia Forest Professionals, 

rdi = RDI Resource Design Inc

flnrord = BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development 

(note: many of our listings also show FLNRORD listings).

also search "fairhurst" or "rdi" and visuals, landscape, resource, resource design inc, visual impact assessment, geoptics, professional forester. 

These terms find rdi directly: visual apparency, visual landscape, visuals bc, vqo bc, vli bc, 

vrm bc, and rdi bc or simply go to https://rdi3d.ca (this website). 

Use the tabs below to view more pages on the rdi3d.ca website.    


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