Janis Fedorowick is a registered landscape architect and urban planner with over 30 years of experience in sustainable development, green building assessments, and regulatory policy, with a strong focus on climate adaptation and resiliency in both Canada and the South Pacific. Her work bridges planning, design, and technical policy to support the creation of environmentally responsive and culturally appropriate built environments—particularly in climate-vulnerable communities.
Fedorowick’s contributions to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) began in 2017, when she served as Project Lead for the update to the National Building Code of Samoa, where she led the development of the region’s first green building standards. These included specific policies for building on waterfronts in the absence of LiDAR or flood zone mapping, drawing on best practices from Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. This work laid the foundation for future initiatives addressing climate resilience in island nations. In 2024, she led the update to the Fiji National Building Code, guiding an international team to create practical, evidence-based green building standards that removed the need for complex calculations. Her team modeled performance for 15 building typologies and developed standards that automatically meet the 30% emissions reduction target of the Fiji Climate Change Act. The standards were designed to be flexible across different site conditions but guaranteed to deliver measurable outcomes in energy efficiency and climate mitigation.
Across all projects, Fedorowick brings a deep commitment to advancing practical, resilient, and climate-responsive green building standards, supporting long-term sustainability goals while empowering communities to adapt to changing environmental conditions for rising sea levels, storm surge and flooding.