Brigid Barriscale
PRINCIPAL, FACILITES PLANNER, MBA, EDAC, LEAN BLACK BELT
Brigid focuses on delivering innovative functional programs to inform the planning of an organization's future workplaces. She has over fifteen years of experience in master and functional programming, feasibility studies and needs assessments. Her experience working in healthcare for fifteen years prior to becoming a facility planner provides her with a unique perspective. She brings clinical expertise and operational insight into the planning of healthcare facilities. Although her work focuses on healthcare, she has successfully completed functional programs for a number of sectors, including municipal, education and commercial projects. Brigid has her Lean Health Care Black Belt certification and her Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC).
Brigid earned her MBA which compliments one of her strengths in developing value propositions for clients. She is experienced at working with data such as workloads and projections providing the evidence-base that capital funding processes call out for in capital projects.
Allison Savigny
PRINCIPAL, FACILITES PLANNER, MA PLANNING
Allison's approach to facilities planning is strategic and creative. With both diligent investigation and graphic skills, she combines analysis with communications to produce comprehensive decision-support tools that drive the capital planning process. She has years of experience in facility planning, accommodations and master planning for commercial, municipal, healthcare, civic, academic, not-for-profit and industrial projects. She prides herself on Inform's ability to achieve exceptional functional programs through a collaborative process. Allison has a Master of Arts in Urban Planning from the University of British Columbia.
Allison's background in urban planning supports her knowledge in community and civic planning. Allison's predesign strengths lie in community, municipal, civic, community health and workplace functional programming. Her versatile facilitation tools and personable approach to stakeholder engagement make her a favourite among stakeholders and clients. Gaining trust from stakeholders on facility projects is one of Allison's many strengths.