Catherine is a Registered Landscape Architect and a Registered Professional Planner. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has been at the forefront of her disciplines, building relationships, integrating GIS applications, and preparing plans and designs that have enhanced communities and the environment.
Her current work is with Urban Systems, an interdisciplinary firm of 600 with 15 offices in Western Canada. She previously spent 28 years as principal of Catherine Berris Associates Inc. (CBA), an award-winning boutique firm in Vancouver. Her project experience spans community and site planning for Indigenous communities, municipalities, and land developments; community engagement; parks, recreation, culture, and trails planning and design; nature-based design solutions; urban forest strategies; coastal planning; and cemetery planning and design.
Catherine is also engaged in community service and mentoring. She is currently on the Professional Governance Act Working Group for the BCSLA, supporting BC landscape architects in becoming a regulated profession. She provides leadership and mentoring to Urban Systems’ 24-person landscape architecture practice. In 1999, she was honored by being appointed a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects.
