On site in Kamloops, a deeply meaningful vision is taking shape. CTQ Consultants is honoured to contribute civil engineering and landscape architecture to the Tk’emlúps First Nation Healing House. This important project centres on reflection, culture, connection and community healing.
Recently, CTQ Civil Engineering Partner Steve Tobler and Landscape Architecture Associate Natalie Martin visited the site for the landscape startup. It marked an exciting stage as the design moves from plans into place.
For our team, the Healing House means much more than another engineering or landscape architecture project. It gives us the opportunity to contribute our expertise to a place with genuine purpose. We approach that responsibility with care, respect and a commitment to listen.
Bringing Civil Engineering and Landscape Architecture Together
The Tk’emlúps First Nation Healing House shows what integrated civil engineering and landscape architecture can achieve.
Each discipline brings specialised expertise. But the strongest outcomes happen when we consider infrastructure, buildings and landscapes as interconnected parts of the same place.
Steve and our Civil Engineering team are helping ensure the foundational civil elements support the site and its long-term function. Natalie and our Landscape Architecture team are bringing the intentional outdoor spaces to life. Their work considers how people will experience the landscape and connect with the natural surroundings.
By working together, our teams can balance practical site requirements with the human experience of the landscape.
Recognising the Role of Landscape in Healing
At CTQ, we believe landscapes can do much more than surround a building.
They can create opportunities for reflection and connection. They can bring a sense of calm and belonging. Thoughtful landscape design can also strengthen the relationship between people, place and nature.
That understanding plays an important role at the Tk’emlúps First Nation Healing House.
Our team approaches every landscape decision with intention. We consider how each outdoor space will feel and function. We also look at how it connects with the natural surroundings and supports the wider purpose of the Healing House.
The land itself plays an important role. We recognise the responsibility that comes with contributing to a project where landscape, culture, community and healing connect so closely.
Listening, Respecting and Collaborating
Collaboration sits at the heart of this project.
CTQ is proud to work alongside Sahuri + Associates Architects Inc., Jen-Col Construction Ltd., Tk’emlúps Contracting, RJC Engineers and Ray Gosselin.
Together, the project team is bringing the Healing House vision to life while respecting the values, culture and voice of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation community.
For CTQ, this starts with listening.
Our professional expertise forms only one part of a much bigger picture. Successful design must do more than function well or look beautiful. It needs to understand the people it serves and support the purpose of the place.
Seeing the Vision Take Shape in Kamloops
Site visits bring a project to life.
For Steve and Natalie, the landscape startup provided an opportunity to work closely with the wider project team. They could see how the design was translating on the ground, address details as they emerged and help keep the civil and landscape components aligned with the overall vision.
This hands-on collaboration continues from design through construction. It helps turn carefully considered ideas into spaces that work in the real world.
It also reminds us why the work matters.
Creating Spaces That Matter
The Tk’emlúps First Nation Healing House reflects something fundamental to the way we work at CTQ: the places we help create should serve people.
Engineering and landscape architecture shape more than the physical environment. They influence how people move through a place, connect with nature and experience the spaces around them.
Being trusted to contribute to a project with such profound meaning is something we do not take lightly.
Well done to Steve, Natalie and the entire collaborative team for the care and dedication they continue to bring to the Healing House.
As construction progresses, we look forward to seeing this vision become a special place for the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation — one grounded in healing, culture, community and connection.
