Partners & Nations
Elk Ridge is the flagship community of Worthy Communities. Worthy brings the plan together. Nation partners and proven specialists help deliver each asset. Delivery partners are described by their own published capabilities.
First Nations partnership at Elk Ridge
First Nations partnership
A precedent-setting water infrastructure agreement with local First Nations, finalized in 2023.
The agreement includes sharing the water accessed through the Elk Ridge water licence.
Elk Ridge reflects years of collaboration with local First Nations. We start with the Nation's priorities for its people, lands and future, and with the governance that will guide the work.
Delivery partner · Quw'utsun'-owned · Duncan, BC
“Indigenous leaders in construction.”
A locally owned Quw'utsun' company with roots that go back generations. RavenStone's published services include civil construction, earthworks, site preparation, carpentry and trucking, delivered by an Indigenous labour force supported by training and mentorship programs.
Supports: Elk Ridge land development and servicing Permitted · Phase 1 planned
RavenStone's published projects
Projects shown are RavenStone Construction's own work, as published on ravensc.ca. They are not Worthy projects.
Homes delivery partner · Independent entity
Elk Ridge homes in partnership with Worthy Homes — built for wellness and preparedness.
Worthy Homes is its own entity, separate from Worthy Communities, focused on designing and delivering the homes at Elk Ridge: healthy, durable, resilient homes built for wellness and preparedness.
Supports: Homes at Elk Ridge Active partner
Waste-to-energy & resource recovery
Founder Ross Dickinson leads a published approach connecting resource recovery, power, heating and cooling with aquaculture and food production.
Supports: What's next: the proposed waste-to-energy utility Proposed
Energy & microgrid advisory
A3 Consultancy LLC, based in Folly Beach, South Carolina, advises on energy, infrastructure and systems. It is led by Principal and Managing Director Andrew L. Dunn, whose focus is business strategy, applied science and systems integration. Andrew has nearly two decades in clean energy: he helped grow residential and commercial solar at South Carolina’s Southern Current, and is Energy Solutions Director at FENECON USA, which builds containerized battery storage from surplus EV battery modules. Trained in physics at the University of Georgia, he also holds an MPA and an MS in Environmental & Sustainability Studies from the College of Charleston.
For Elk Ridge: In discussion as an owner-side planning and predevelopment advisor for BC Hydro service, power, solar, storage, microgrids and utilities.
Supports: Solar Utility In design · Under development
Food forest design
Food Forest Abundance designs permaculture food forests for backyards, farms and communities around the world. Its published approach layers fruit trees, shrubs, herbs and root crops into low-maintenance, edible ecosystems.
Supports: Food security Planned · In design
Destination wellness resort
Elk Ridge is in active discussions with prospective operators for a destination wellness resort on the Phase 2 commercial and mixed-use resort parcel. The operator or partner has not yet been selected.
Supports: Wellness resort In discussion
Education
Discussions are under way with prospective education partners for the community's education pillar, centred on the school site shown on the Elk Ridge plan. The partner has not yet been selected.
Supports: School site In discussion
Advanced health & wellness
Elk Ridge is in discussions on a health centre partnership aligned with the community's wellness resort and health centre pillar. The partner has not yet been selected.
Supports: Wellness resort & health centre In discussion
Nation partnerships
Strong partnerships begin with listening. Our approach starts with a Nation's priorities for its people, lands and future, and the governance that will guide the work.
We are developing a coordinated partnership model that brings housing, infrastructure, capital strategy and specialist expertise around those priorities. At Elk Ridge, that means years of collaboration with local First Nations.
Modular and other housing options, and paths to ownership for members and the wider community, where the Nation chooses.
Water, wastewater, energy and resilience planning, with ownership and responsibilities agreed for each project.
Shared ownership, training, procurement, local enterprise and long-term revenues through negotiated arrangements.
Feasibility, capital planning, professional teams and implementation, connected through one accountable plan.
Nation-led priorities. Agreed governance. Transparent economics. Every partnership is negotiated; each community's vision is its own.
