Senior Living – Nycum + Associates https://nycum.com Meaningful Work & Thoughtful Collaboration Wed, 01 May 2024 17:20:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.11 Environments for Aging 2024 https://nycum.com/attending-environments-for-aging/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:51:00 +0000 https://nycum.com/?p=1536 Several members of the Nycum staff attended the 2024 Environments for Aging conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia, from Apri 14-16, 2024. After attending so many inspirational and educational sessions at the conference, we returned to the office eager to share what’s going on in the world of design for spaces in which people will live as they age.

The Environments for Aging conference and expo is an annual destination for professionals in the senior living space. It’s a gathering of administrators, designers, builders, front-line workers, developers, and researchers to discuss the latest strategies and ideas for creating functional and attractive living environments that meet the needs of an aging world.

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]]> LTC Closure Symptom of Systemic Issues https://nycum.com/ltc-closure-symptom-of-systemic-issues/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 16:06:00 +0000 https://nycum.com/?p=1506 Benjie Nycum was interviewed by the CBC in this article about the recently announced closure of a Long Term Care home here in Nova Scotia.

We have more people that need care than we have people that can provide that care.

-Benjie Nycum

Check out the article here.

]]> COVID-19 & Long Term Care https://nycum.com/covid-19-long-term-care/ Thu, 21 May 2020 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.nycum.com/?p=1192 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. This is a subject that has been much debated in our studio’s daily check-ins while we work remotely and we were happy to discuss design, staffing and societal pressures that all impact the lives of people living in our province’s Long Term Care facilities.

A portion of Benjie and Nebal‘s discussion about the design aspects was published in the May 21, 2020, edition of the paper.

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]]> COVID-19 & Architecture https://nycum.com/covid-19-architecture/ Fri, 15 May 2020 18:17:00 +0000 http://www.nycum.com/?p=1195 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 great blog post for Nanuk Technologies that we think encapsulates many of the issues surrounding COVID-19 and the way the pandemic may impact how we talk about, use and design space going forward. We may be partial though, Hadrian worked hard to canvas us all for our opinions and generate debate during our weekly remote-working happy hours as he prepared his insights.

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]]> Villa Acadienne Replacement Announced https://nycum.com/villa-acadienne-replacement-announced/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 12:00:54 +0000 http://www.nycum.com/?p=1183 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 included programming and planning studies, evaluation of costs, assistance in the search for a site and conceptual and schematic design work along with early project management for the dedicated board.

July 3, 2019, saw the announcement by the Provincial Government that the facility would, indeed, be replaced: a successful outcome for the hard work of Villa Acadienne, its board and our consulting team.

The new Villa Acadienne is designed based on a “household” model of care where residents live in smaller groups, or households, each with its own dining, food prep and other support areas. The new building will increase the facility’s bed count by ten to a total of 96 residents.

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]]> Back in PEI! https://nycum.com/back-in-pei/ https://nycum.com/back-in-pei/#respond Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:27:08 +0000 http://www.nycum.com/?p=701 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 team and have fallen head over heels with the gorgeous site.
Prime Consultant: W.D. Lawrence Architecture Inc.

]]> https://nycum.com/back-in-pei/feed/ 0 Our Northwood Project is LEED™ Certified https://nycum.com/our-northwood-project-is-leed-certified/ https://nycum.com/our-northwood-project-is-leed-certified/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:33:14 +0000 http://www.nycum.com/?p=487 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 facility components.

For more information, visit our website’s Project Page.

LEED™ is a regular part of a large portion of the world of architectural design, with traditionally less representation in the world of healthcare architecture.

In this project, we focused on the LEED™ credits with the potential for the greatest impact on those living within. For example, including operable windows in what is traditionally a sealed environment, which means working closely with our Mechanical Engineers to ensure that appropriate humidity and temperature levels are not put at risk.

This project also included exterior rooftop gardens and decks in assorted sizes providing recreational and rehabilitation opportunities at many scales for the residents, visitors and staff, while encouraging closer connections with the natural world.

In addition to being lower maintenance and climate appropriate, landscape design for this project included native plants and other appropriate non-invasive varieties to contribute to familiar views for residents, improving health outcomes, and longer-term life-cycle cost benefits for the operator.

An Insulated Concrete Forming (ICF) system was chosen as a major structural component, allowing the building to take advantage of a high level of recycled content (fly ash) in the concrete mix and providing high thermal insulation values while acoustic comfort of residents was enhanced.

The LEED™ framework aligned with the team’s goal of choosing as many natural materials as possible in a healthcare setting to help reduce the institutional feel of the building and support biophilic design philosophies that a growing body of Evidence Based Design suggests enhance healing and well-being.

Congratulations to all involved with Ivany Place: Northwood at the Parks, in the Parks of Bedford West.

Client: Northwoodcare Inc.
Project Manager: Fairwyn Developments
LEED™ Consultant: Solterre Design

]]> https://nycum.com/our-northwood-project-is-leed-certified/feed/ 0 Nycum Nursing Homes Receive LEED™ Certification https://nycum.com/nycum-nursing-homes-receive-leed-certification/ https://nycum.com/nycum-nursing-homes-receive-leed-certification/#respond Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:25:27 +0000 http://www.nycum.com/?p=391 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 to have that confirmed with a third party accreditation, and we are excited that two of our recent Long Term Care projects have achieved LEED™ Certification after earning the required number of points (they were pretty close to LEED™ Silver, in fact!).

We were happy to have strong partners in our consultant team, client and project manager — all of whom put in the effort to ensure that points were counted and accounted for and followed through from concept to design to construction and after.

Congratulations to all involved with Ivey’s Terrace Nursing Home, in Trenton, and Shiretown Nursing Home, in Pictou.

Client: MacLeod Group Health Services Ltd.
Project Manager: Lampier & Associates Health Facilities Consultants Ltd.
Sustainability Consultant: Solterre Design

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