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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

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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. 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 IVDPs and VIAs?

RDI's focus in 2023 will expand to include Integrated Visual Design Planning and Total Resource Plans. KB Fairhurst, PhD, RPF has the IVDP experience (our projects are linked below) and professional forestry background necessary to properly meet complex 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.

Integrated Visual Design - Total Resource Planning

Here is a historical listing of RDI's many Integrated Visual Design Plans and a link to the Alberta CEMA Visual Landscape System produced by RDI. The FIA standards for Integrated Visual Design are linked at the bottom of the list. The 1994 MOF Visual Landscape Design Training Manual is also a great foundation for Integrated Visual Design considerations. See pp 137-165 (Appendix I). Thanks to Simon Bell, UK Forestry Commission, and all the MOF Landscape Specialists (including KBF) for this excellent work.

1998_RDI _Black_Peaks_Total_Resource_Plan (pdf)Download
2000_RDI_Haida_Gwaii_IVDP_Update_2021-11-13 (pdf)Download
2007_RDI_Nadina_IVDP (pdf)Download
2010_RDI_BCTS_Foghorn_Integrated_Visual_Design (pdf)Download
2010_RDI_Foghorn_IVDP_L2 (pdf)Download
2010_RDI_Frederick_IVDP (pdf)Download
2011_RDI_Tamihi_IVDP (pdf)Download
2012_RDI_BCTS_FIA_Tshinakin_IVD-2_Retention (pdf)Download
2013_RDI_BCTS_IVD_FIA_Tshinakin (pdf)Download
2013_RDI_BCTS_Tshinakin_IVD_Net_Available_Forest (pdf)Download
2010_IFP_Frederick_IVDP_RDI (pdf)Download
2003_RDI_CEMA_Visual_Landscape_System_Web (pdf)Download
2008_Fairhurst_RDI_UBC_2008_VLM_IVDP (pdf)Download
2008_Ministry_vrm_fia-standards-integrated-visual-design (pdf)Download

Some of RDI's Accomplishments over the years

Check out these projects covering visual impact assessments and training initiatives presented here for historical documentation and potential guidance for new projects. See also our Integrated Visual Design Plans and VRM Systems above and our VIA page for many more linked projects.

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
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
2023_RDI_VNS_Training (pdf)Download
2017_Fairhurst_Portland_Visualization_Tools (pdf)Download

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