Awards

Lura Contributes to Award-Winning Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization Design Competition

Lura Consulting congratulates the City of Toronto and the Nathan Phillips Square Revitilization Team for winning the coveted Award of Excellence at the Public Service Quality Fair (PSQF) held on Monday September 24, 2007. This award recognizes the high standard of work and great effort that the entire team invested in the project, and is something we are all proud of.

Nathan Phillips Square

The PSQF is a province-wide showcase for service excellence in government, health care and education. Its objectives are to promote awareness and the use of quality principles and practices, to share ideas and to celebrate successes. All applications to the PSQF are evaluated against the same quality criteria that the National Quality Institute uses for the Canada Awards for Excellence. Submissions are assessed on a range of criteria, including leadership, citizen/client focus, people focus, process management, supplier/partner focus, and organizational performance

Lura was proud to provide process and community consultation services to this project. One of those contributions includes the Community Voices: Perspectives on Nathan Phillips Square's Renewal Report prepared for the City of Toronto.

Lura Contributes to Award-Winning Growth Plan

Lura Consulting President David Dilks recently travelled to Philadelphia to join Ontario government officials in receiving a prestigious international award - the American Planning Association's 2007 Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan.

The 2007 Daniel Burnham Award was presented to the Ontario Government for its Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, a groundbreaking strategy that sets out how and where future growth will occur in Southern Ontario.

Lura provided facilitation and stakeholder consultation services as part of the process to develop the Growth Plan between 2004 and 2007.Dave

"We are very proud to have contributed our expertise to this award-winning plan," said Dilks. "This is the first time the Daniel Burnham Award has been presented to a jurisdiction outside the U.S., and the award committee recognized the extensive stakeholder consultation process as part of their decision."