Challenges
Now more than ever, clients are looking to incorporate diverse and inclusive (D&I) engineering designs that incorporate the needs of all operational stakeholders and end users. D&I Design focuses on incorporating human beliefs, ideas, and opinions to enable an inclusive workforce. This perspective includes a person’s age, race, gender, ability, economic status, and culture, along with anything that may influence diversity of thought, such as experience, perspective, education, and skillset.
By enabling a more diverse population to contribute and succeed in their environment, D&I Design brings new ideas in, fosters a safer and healthier environment, increases productivity, and improves performance.
Expanding your potential
D&I Design strategy is a continuous process that should constantly be evaluated. It can be challenging to implement because it involves changing deep-rooted traditions of thinking and identifying aspects that need to be improved.
To deliver the most inclusive and accessible solutions, we have developed a six-step process:
- Collect a diverse set of ideas and perspectives
- Consult with stakeholders to understand their needs
- Remove barriers by fostering an inclusive project environment
- Design for all, not just the majority of individuals
- Create tools that help incorporate D&I Design considerations
- Improve by seeking areas to strengthen D&I Design implementation.
The impact
The incorporation of D&I Design introduces positive social change by eliminating systemic barriers and supporting the engagement of minority groups. These benefits are achieved through greater project team diversity and the consideration of stakeholder perspectives.
D&I Design furthers our commitment to strengthening diversity and inclusion in the global community. As a leading organization in engineering consulting, management, and project development, we understand the importance of Hatch adopting diversity and inclusion into our business and design practices.
Your solution
We design solutions with diversity and inclusion in mind.
Our D&I Design team can help audit, organize, and improve existing facilities, and assist in developing internal D&I Design procedures that encourage inclusive business practices. Ultimately, we create better solutions by embedding D&I Design within every project we deliver.
Contact us to let us help you or to find out more.