COVID-19 & Architecture 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 →