Context-Sensitive Approach
GSH Works is a unique and specialized organization. We stand out because of our commitment to regenerative development and our capacity to manage all aspects of a project or organization.
Regenerative Development
Through our depth of knowledge, our adoption of leading edge practices, and our context-sensitive approach to site planning and development, we design and build with nature.
Turnkey Management
As a turnkey organizational development and management firm, we deliver results on time and on budget with transparent reporting and accessible information tracking.
We seek to preserve ecologically sensitive, valuable, and healthy land first and foremost. Restoring and conserving habitat for native plants and animals is prioritized over human development.
By focusing human activity on ecologically unhealthy areas, we enable development to be restorative; rather than cause more harm, our development returns degraded areas to productivity, diversity, and ecological health.
To restore and protect land while developing on it, listening to nature is our starting point. We begin with a careful and thorough site analysis to identify natural and cultural constraints and opportunities. Employing a context-sensitive approach to site planning and development, we design and build with nature. The look, feel, and construction of any structures, the paths through which people circulate through a site, and even the project objectives, or the project program, itself is defined by the natural and cultural conditions identified through our site analysis.
The restoration of degraded land can form the basis of a sustainable community economy. Our dream projects will support small connected villages of farmers, spiritual practitioners, healers, and artists from a diversity of economic backgrounds, racialized identities, and ages. We are most interested in projects where we can interweave building with learning and teaching.
Our Services
GSH Works provides land development services employing a context-sensitive development approach. Our first goal is always to learn about the land through the lenses of various disciplines including traditional systems from around the world, helpful in identifying features or qualities unseen by more conventional studies.
GSH Works can manage and/or assist with the following elements of your development project:
- Site Analysis
- Site Mapping
- Master Planning
- Land Use Planning
- Renovation & Construction Planning
- Land Management
- Land Maintenance
GSH Works is well positioned to offer turn-key organizational development and management services to both businesses and non-profits. Between our staff and extensive network of seasoned professionals, we can manage and/or assist with the following elements of your organization:
- Program Management
- Board and Governance
- Strategic Planning
- Investor and Donor Development
- Marketing & Communications
- Financial Reporting to Boards, Funders, and CPAs
- Transparent Full-Service Accounting & Bookkeeping
- Facilities Management
- Human Resources Consulting and Outsourcing
- Risk Management
- Purchasing
- Contractor and Vendor Management