Community Planning & Infrastructure

Dillon is a leader in planning, designing, building, and maintaining community infrastructure. We are innovators in this field and are sought after from coast to coast to coast and abroad. We bring human-centered thinking and design solutions to projects that connect communities and bring spaces to life. With our experience we are able to coordinate and complete complex projects under strict timelines.

Our team pushes the edges of community planning and conventional engineering to incorporate solutions which contribute to a higher degree of environmental sustainability and social benefits to the communities served. We adapt well-established practices and emerging principles, such as Low Impact Development (LID) measures, and leading-edge solutions in both urban redevelopment and “greenfield” applications. We lead by example and recognize that cities are living organisms that require adaptive frameworks and flexible designs to achieve long-term social inclusion, economic prosperity, and environmental resilience.

Asset Management

• Municipal Asset Management Plans
• Asset management strategies
• Operational support
• Community and staff training
• Condition assessments
• Departmental service reviews

Community Planning

• Comprehensive Community Plans (e.g., Official Plans, Municipal Plans, Secondary Plans)
• Zoning By-laws
• Housing studies
• Development process support and enhancement
• Land Use Plans
• Employment lands studies
• Planning advisory services for governments
• Urban design projects including:
  • Parks planning
  • Conceptual streetscape design
  • Urban design policy and guidelines
  • Waterfront planning
• Sustainability and resiliency planning including climate change adaptation projects
• Community energy plans
• Circular economy studies
• Community and stakeholder engagement strategies, programming and facilitation

Drainage and Climate

• Stormwater drainage systems
• Hydraulic/hydrologic modelling
• Stormwater management
• Flood related studies
• Infrastructure vulnerability assessments related to climate change

Integrated Mobility

• Multi-modal transportation systems planning
• Network plans
• Modelling and forecasting
• Transportation guidelines and policy
• Operational traffic studies (e.g., traffic calming studies, parking studies)
• Active transportation plans
• Traffic impact studies
• Transit master plans
• Rural transit studies
• Corridor functional studies
• Green fleet and Electric Vehicle/Autonomous Vehicle (EV/AV) strategies

Linear Infrastructure

• Municipal Infrastructure Master Plans
• Water Systems (e.g., water supply, distribution and storage systems)
• Storm and sanitary sewer collection systems
• Minor rehabilitation/upgrades to municipal roads

Parks and Public Spaces

• Detailed design of exterior, outdoor public spaces including, but not limited to:
  • Parks
  • Recreation trails
  • Plazas
  • Waterfronts
  • Beautification projects
  • Municipal parking lots

Treatment and Pumping Infrastructure

• Design of new, or upgrades to, water and wastewater treatment plants and pumping facilities