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RDI Resource Design Inc - Landscape & Visual Impact Assessment
  • Home About
  • Consulting Services
  • Contact
  • Connections
  • Visual Impact Assessment
  • VRM Publications
  • GEOptics Apparency
  • Landscape Inventory
  • Alberta Windfarm
  • Stanley Park Forest

Welcome

Services

Visual Landscape Inventory records what is seen from highways, waterways, towns and cities.

Visual Landscape Design Services

Starting with a discussion about your scenery management issue, we can assess and provide design recommendations.

Visual Impact Assessment determines visual vulnerability of proposed alterations and mitigation.

3-D Computer Visualization

We are experts at employing Visual Nature Studio from 3-D Nature, LLC for photo-realistic visual simulation, KB Fairhurst has trained many VRM consultants, GIS Departments, and UBC forestry students in its applications and practice. RDI most recently created a 20 minute VNS Training Video and a 20 slide PowerPoint Guide for Drake Forestry Services Ltd. of Kelowna, BC in March, 2021 for their staff.  Our 3-D computer visual simulations provide essential understanding and guidance in each of our VIAs, some of which are linked below. More than seventy VIAs and other initiatives using VNS produced by RDI for BC Timber Sales are published on the Visual Impact Assessment page of this website.

Visual Resource Management is the full spectrum of activity influencing visual quality outcomes.

RDI Consultation and Mentoring Services

A consultation will give you the opportunity to ask questions and allow us to suggest a plan for issue resolution. We gladly work with and mentor other forestry, natural resource management and GIS firms who may wish to access our expertise for conducting the VRM, VIA, 3-D Visual Simulation, Visual Landscape Design, achievement of Visual Quality Objectives and Requirements, and integration with Forest Landscape Plans (FLPs).

Corporate Resume

RDI_Fairhurst_Resume_2023 (pdf)Download

Frequently Asked Questions

Who produces our Visual Impact Assessments?

KB Fairhurst, PhD, RPF has the experience and professional forestry background necessary to properly meet your project needs. 

We are fully insured, certified and licensed

We are registered with the Association of Forest Professionals in BC, and we carry professional liability insurance for all of our Forestry projects in British Columbia. We are 

SAFE Certified by the BC Forest Safety Council and have the WorkSafeBC Certificate of Recognition (COR).

Visual Impact Assessment projects outside of British Columbia may require special licenses and certifications. We will gladly collaborate with trusted members of the Visual Resource Management community in other jurisdictions as we have done in Alberta, Canada, and with the US Forest Service.

Some of RDI's Accomplishments over the years

Check out these projects covering integrated visual design planning, top-down/bottom-up VRM planning, visual impact assessments, and training initiatives presented here for historical documentation and potential guidance for new projects. See also our VIA page for many more linked projects.

1998_RDI _Black_Peaks_Total_Resource_Plan (pdf)Download
2000_RDI_Haida_Gwaii_IVDP_Update_2021-11-13 (pdf)Download
2000_RDI_Training_Chilliwack (pdf)Download
2000_RDI_VIA_Training_Knight_s (pdf)Download
2000_RDI_Training_Red-Rock_VIAs (pdf)Download
2000_RDI_Training_Soo (pdf)Download
2000_RDI_Training_Takla_VIA_s (pdf)Download
RDI_CEMA_Visual_Landscape_System_2003_Web (pdf)Download
2006_RDI_ISSRM_Fairhurst_VRM_Strategies_F (pdf)Download
2001_RDI_East_Narrows_Visual_Assessment_JSJones-s (pdf)Download
2000_RDI_Tamihi_Visual_Impact_Assessment-s (pdf)Download
1998_RDI_Timfor_Knight (pdf)Download
1998_RDI_Handy_VIA (pdf)Download
VRM-Guide-RDI-BCTS-2017 (pdf)Download
Fairhurst_Visualization_Visual_Quality_Effectiveness_BC_GeOptics_Portland_170421 (pdf)Download

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