Value Planning
Our Innovation Lab's Flagship Service
We use value planning to support local infrastructure decision-makers struggling with difficult and expensive infrastructure challenges or complex economic development opportunities. We help you step back from conventional – but unsatisfactory – answers, to reimagine projects to maximize community benefits from public investments. We help you and your key stakeholders – at the pre-design stage of a project’s life cycle – to explore a range of innovative alternatives that can generate economic, environmental, and social value together.
Through Value Planning – a systems-based, community-centric approach to innovation – we work with you to convene the right stakeholders and community leaders to first identify local values and needs. And we bring in the right set of nationally recognized technical experts for your particular challenge to conduct research, map assets and identify alternatives that can address as many of those values and needs as possible.
We use Value Planning to help you reimagine two types of projects:
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Community Infrastructure
When a difficult and expensive infrastructure challenge demands an innovative solution, Value Planning can generate alternatives that offer greater value from investment for the community than conventional, single-solution fixes.
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Economic Development
We use Value Planning to craft “Industrial Symbiosis” partnerships where businesses co-locate around cooperative sharing agreements so one company’s waste or byproducts can be utilized as a resource for another, generating mutual economic value and environmental gains.