Introducing HB Lanarc
HB Lanarc is a leading planning and design firm helping to create complete, attractive, ecologically resilient, and prosperous communities in British Columbia and across North America. Our mission is to produce planning and design solutions for a sustainable future.
HB Lanarc has a full service “green solutions” workshop, staffed with dozens of planners, landscape architects and related professionals in fields as diverse as community engagement, sustainable buildings, renewable energy, greenhouse gas reduction, food systems, public policy, and information technology. The company supports projects from the earliest visioning stages through to construction drawings, with sustainable values and practices “hard-wired” into every step.
Company History and Merger
HB Lanarc is the result of a merger of two well-established planning and design companies - Holland Barrs Planning Group and Lanarc Consultants. Lanarc Consultants was established in 1978 by Landscape Architect David Reid and grew into a highly respected practice on Vancouver Island, working primarily in Western Canada. Holland Barrs Planning Group was established in 2001 by Mark Holland and Robert Barrs to deliver practical and strategic sustainability consulting services to local governments and developers.
Holding identical values and already operating in both the Lower Mainland and on Vancouver Island, the two companies saw the potential of combining strengths to meet the growing demands of sustainability. The merger was effective May 2008.