COVID-19 & Long Term Care
May 2020
Our CEO, Benjie Nycum, sat down with the Chronicle Herald’s Nebal Snan to discuss issues surrounding the impact of the current Coronavirus pandemic on Nursing Homes and Long Term Care facilities in Nova Scotia.... View post →
COVID-19 & Architecture
May 2020
We always love the energy and ideas brought to our team by our co-op students, and this year is no exception. Our current masters-level co-op student from Dalhousie University, Hadrian Laing, has penned a... View post →
Dialysis Renovation Starts
Jul 2019
A project we designed to renovate space within the existing Glace Bay Hospital started construction work in earnest this month. We are excited to see this important healthcare space for people in Cape Breton... View post →
Villa Acadienne Replacement Announced
Jul 2019
We have been working with Villa Acadienne, in Metghan, since early 2017 to evaluate the feasibility of replacing their existing long-term care facility with a new building to serve the area. Our work has... View post →
Hospice Construction Starts
Oct 2018
We celebrated an important milestone with one of our clients when we marked the official groundbreaking for the new Valley Hospice, in Kentville, NS. This project is designed like a bird, nestled in the... View post →
Hospice Construction Tender Issued
Aug 2018
A critical milestone was reached this month as the construction tender was issued for a new hospice serving the Annapolis Valley. Links Kings County News Article, August 24, 2018 NovaNewsNow Article, February 24, 2018... View post →
Dialysis Addition Construction Starts
Aug 2018
A 12-station dialysis unit we designed officially started construction this month with a ground-breaking ceremony at Valley Regional Hospital, in Kentville, NS. This new healthcare facility is replacing an existing and smaller unit in... View post →
Nycum Joins Canadian Museum for Human Rights Board of Trustees
Mar 2018
Canada’s Minister for Canadian Heritage, Honorable Mélanie Joly, has appointed Nycum CEO Benjie Nycum to the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights for a four year term starting April 1,... View post →
Nycum Presents at the 2018 Silver Economy Summit
Mar 2018
At the 2018 Silver Economy Summit held in Halifax on March 6th & 7th, Nycum CEO Benjie Nycum presented “Where Do You Want to Die?” – an in depth exploration of the places and... View post →
Teaching Code to Future Architects
Jan 2018
Nycum staff Stephen Terauds and Benjie Nycum are teaching building code to undergraduate students at Dalhousie University School of Architecture. They’ve designed a course based on simulation of a code review in a professional... View post →
Nycum on Building Science Panel
Nov 2017
As part of The Design & Construction Institute (DCI) 2017 Education Day – Building Science “An Atlantic Perspective” on November 7, 2017 Nycum CEO Benjie Nycum presented on the Atlantic Perspectives Panel. The day... View post →
STFX Breaks Ground on Mulroney Institute of Government
Sep 2017
Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Canada’s 18th Prime Minister, broke ground for the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government and the Xaverian Commons, a $100 million transformative project heralding a new era for StFX. Mulroney hall... View post →
StFX Draft Plan for Campus Review
Jan 2017
Nycum, with its project partner SmithGroupJJR, met a significant milestone in the development of St. Francis Xavier University’s Campus Framework Plan with a draft report and open house at the university to present findings... View post →
Hybrid Construction Award
Nov 2016
Nov 8, 2016: our Simpson Landing project was chosen as the recipient of this year’s Hybrid Construction Award in the 2016 Atlantic Wood Design Awards program. Simpson Landing provides transitional mental health services for... View post →
Jury’s Choice Award
Nov 8, 2016: We’re happy to be recipients of this year’s Jury’s Choice Award in the 2016 Atlantic Wood Design Awards program. The St. John Ambulance Headquarters building is a hybrid one story building... View post →
M. Brian Mulroney Hall Project Hits Major Milestone
Oct 2016
Our project with St. Francis Xavier University reached a major milestone yesterday, when the Right Honourable M. Brian Mulroney announced the Brian Mulroney Institute of Government to be housed at the university in the... View post →
Taloyoak Health Centre Opens
Sep 2015
We are thrilled to share that the Taloyoak Health Centre officially opened on September 3rd, 2015. The $30m facility is a key component in the delivery of primary care, urgent care medical services (including... View post →
Back in PEI!
Aug 2015
We are delighted to be engaged, along with W.D. Lawrence Architecture Inc., to design a new Nursing Home facility in Tyne Valley, PEI. We’re providing healthcare design and planning expertise to the project’s design... View post →
Corporate Lobby Renovation
Jul 2015
Work is underway on one of our interior renovation projects. We’re designing renovations for the main lobby space for one of our clients, an aerospace company, bringing the finishes up to date and in... View post →
Arctic Circle Construction
Jun 2015
Another beautiful site for one of our projects: Arctic Bay, NU. Construction work has started on our latest community health centre in the far north. Piles are going into the permafrost and we’re excited... View post →
Dartmouth General Hospital Renovations Start Construction
May 2015
New team centres at the heart of the patient wing will enable better work and material flow, protect patient confidentiality and enable the hospital’s innovative Bullet Rounds. The new team centres are located in... View post →
Join Our Multi Gender Changeroom Design Dialogue
Apr 2015
Remember how rowdy and sometimes dangerous the changing room could get before gym class? Can we make it safer for everyone while still allowing privacy? Would it be safer to have Multi Gender Change... View post →
Mind Architecture: Utopian Parallels in Architecture and Psychiatry
Sep 2014
On September 11, 2014, Benjie Nycum presented the R.O. Jones Memorial Lecture at the Canadian Psychiatric Association Annual conference in Toronto. Here is a bit from the original abstract: In recent decades, the debate... View post →
Observations from Implementation
Mar 2014
The following is an excerpt and distillation of our work from a paper for TESIS Inter-University Research Center, Systems and Technologies for Social and Healthcare Facilities, University of Florence. What happens when you design... View post →
Our Northwood Project is LEED™ Certified
Jan 2014
We started off the new year with some excellent news about one of our projects: Ivany Place: Northwood at the Parks, a 156-bed Long Term Care facility with adult day care and residential care... View post →
Insert Patient Here!
Dec 2013
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal on “The Hospital Room of the Future”, presented with the subtitle of “A patient-centered design could reduce infections, falls, errors—and ultimately costs” shows how far off... View post →
Nycum Nursing Homes Receive LEED™ Certification
Oct 2013
We believe that architecture is responsible to the future as well as the present. As such, ecologically sensitive and environmentally responsible design should be a strong part of all our work. It’s always nice... View post →
New Hospice and Hemodialysis Project
Sep 2013
Hospice is a really exciting project type. By placing the people who need specific services for the dying process in the appropriate environment, rather than a traditional hospital bed, burden on the rest of... View post →
We Present on Combining Programming and Design Phases Effectively
Aug 2013
This year’s International Union of Architects Public Health Group Forum will be held in Toronto as part of IIDEX. Noah and Mark will be presenting the outcomes of a recent project we were engaged... View post →
We Present Design Standards at International Healthcare Architecture Forum
This year’s International Union of Architects Public Health Group Forum will be held in Toronto as part of IIDEX. We will be presenting our analysis of how innovation and design standards converged in a... View post →
Citation, 2012 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Architecture
Jul 2013
We were the proud recipient of a NS Lieutenant Governor’s Citation Award for Brigadoon Village at a ceremony at Government House, in Halifax, today. Brigadoon is a special place and we feel pretty special... View post →
Breast Health Centre Phase I Opens
Jun 2013
In a joint effort to improve access to care and maximize the use of resources across the health care system, breast surgery and supporting services moved from Capital Health facilities to the IWK Health... View post →
Advocacy for Health in Architecture
Jan 2013
As part of Professional Practice Week at the School of Architecture, Benjie Nycum will be presenting a lecture called Advocacy for Health in Architecture on January 22nd at 10 am. Student and public lectures... View post →
Student Workshops with Dalhousie University
Aug 2012
Every year, students from Dalhousie’s Faculty of architecture work in small groups to design and build small projects that meet a need or challenge out in the community. This year, Nycum’s Noah Epstein led... View post →
Brigadoon Opens with First Round of Campers
Jul 2012
Brigadoon Village, a project that has been dear to our hearts for the past decade through conceptualizing, fundraising, site searching, design and construction hosted its first round of campers and had its first official... View post →
Infection Culture: Infected Culture
Apr 2012
There is a great deal of information to be aware of with respect to current thinking on the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, like C. Difficile, in hospitals. Benjie’s presentation at this... View post →
We Present at International Environments for Aging Conference
This year’s annual Environments for Aging conference will be held in Orlando, FL. We will be presenting our analysis of how innovation and design standards converged in a major three year initiative to build... View post →