Bev Windjack

MBCSLA, CSLA, LEED®, ERPSC
Landscape Architect, Founding Principal
bwindjack@ladrla.ca

Bev Windjack has over 37 years of experience in all aspects of private sector landscape architecture and an established reputation for facilitation, public presentation, and design excellence. Bev passionately believes that landscape architects have an important role to play in ensuring the ecological integrity of our towns and cities so that they can survive and thrive in the face of changing environmental conditions such as extreme temperature changes, drought and flooding, and sea level rise. She is also committed to learning about the intersection of climate change and design, and how landscape architecture can be used to lower the health risks climate change disproportionately poses to vulnerable communities

Bev is an accredited LEED professional and received her Ecological Restoration Professional Specialization Certificate from the University of Victoria in 2014. She was previously Chair of the BCSLA Climate Change Working Group and a member of the NRCan “Inspiring Climate Action” project team, the CSLA Climate Adaptation Committee, the Esquimalt Design Review Committee, and the Resilient Saanich Committee. She was a member of the University of Victoria’s Restoration Advisory Committee for over 5 years, represented the BCSLA on the the BC Professional Association’s Adaptation Working Group for over 9 years.

Bev has been a guest critic for UBC SALA, Co-Chair of the City of Victoria’s Advisory Design Panel, Chair of the City of Victoria’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Advisory Committee, Director of the BCSLA, juror for the CSLA’s national awards program, and was recently one of six members of the accreditation review committee for the University of Guelph’s Landscape Architecture Bachelor and Masters programs.

Bev recently co-authored chapter 4 (The Role of Professional Associations) of the Resilience Pathways Report: Co Creating New Knowledge for Understanding Risk and Resilience in BC, with Harshan Radhakrishnan, P.Eng. The report, an initiative of Sage Consulting on Earth and NRCan, is based on the Sendai Framework and was published by NRCan in January 2022, and addresses disaster and climate risk management for professionals.