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 →
Nycum Featured in Dalhousie’s 52 Originals
Oct 2018
In celebration of Dalhousie’s 200 years of educating excellence, 52 outstanding individuals from Dalhousie’s community have been profiled for their impactful and pioneering actions. Among these 52 is Nycum CEO Benjie Nycum. Benjie was... 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 →
Jury’s Choice Award
Nov 2016
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 →
RAIC Syllabus Program in full swing in Halifax
Dec 2015
Benjie Nycum has been teaching alongside TEAL’s Tom Emodi in the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) Syllabus program since the beginning of 2015. Now in his second term teaching, he reflects on the... View post →
Superconvergence and the Future of Healthcare Facilities
May 2015
This year’s annual CHES conference opened with a keynote address from Benjie Nycum that delved into the changes on the horizon for healthcare facilities planning. Here is a bit from his abstract: Healthcare challenges... 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 →
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 →
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 →
We Present at International Environments for Aging Conference
Apr 2012
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 →