Architectural Design
William Nycum & Associates Limited is an award-winning, internationally-recognized Architecture and Design firm, with proficiency and renown in the following areas: schematic design, design development, contract documents, assisting with tender and award, construction administration, project management, building maintenance, linkage with planning and equipment consulting processes.
Our work has been published extensively in Canada and the United States. As prime consultants we work with a team of subconsultants to provide a complete range of Architectural and Engineering Design Services.
Planning, Programming, and Site Selection
We provide comprehensive Planning and Programming services by ensuring that people,
processes, physical environment and technology are the key elements in our planning
|procedures. We work together with our clients in developing creative and innovative solutions
to their space needs.
Our services include: strategic planning, role studies, feasibility studies and "what if" consulting, master programs, master plans, room profiles / functional programs, existing facility assessments,
ost-occupancy evaluations, coordination of programs with the Design Teams.
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Equipment Consulting
Through a collaborative process with key team members and by using an equipment asset management database, we develop capital equipment budgets and projections for regions and facilities.
Our Equipment Consulting process includes: Development of strategic equipment plans, development of equipment lists identifying built-in and moveable equipment, as well as furnishings, development of room profiles based on clients' program information, development of inventories of existing equipment, identification of new equipment requirements, linkage with facility management processes, development of budgets for new equipment, development of generic equipment utility data.
Laboratory Design
We specialize in high-technology building development providing a complete package of services, including Programming, Architecture, Interior Design, Equipment Consulting, Construction Management, Building Maintenance, and Cost Control.
Our team has extensive and diverse experience in over $50m in construction of Medical Research Offices and Laboratories. Our skills include
Experience in renovations in existing and operating healthcare facilities
Experience with control of airborne spores and particulate in renovation projects to CSA standards
Experience with construction in pediatric healthcare delivery setting
Experience in IWK renovation projects
Experience with all levels of containment in laboratories
Experience working with teams of scientists to develop laboratory space
Selected Medical Research Offices/Laboratories Projects
-Life Sciences Development Association Functional Program and Conceptual Planning
-Brain Repair Centre Preliminary Design and Costing for CFI application including 2 floors of animal research facilities
-IWK Aquatics Lab renovation
-IWK Animal Research Facility – Level 3 Containment
-IWK – Grace 8 West Research Project
-Grace Maternity Hospital Endocrine and Fertility Clinic renovation
-Glace Bay Healthcare Corporation Clinical Laboratory renovation
-Nova Scotia Environmental Health Centre – for research in chemical hypersensitivities
-Yarmouth Regional Hospital new clinical laboratory & equipment planning
-Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre new clinical laboratory and equipment planning
-Qikiqtani Regional Hospital, Iqaluit, Nunavut, new level 2 clinical laboratory and equipment planning
-Aberdeen Hospital clinical laboratory renovation
Construction Management
MYTON Project Management Limited is William Nycum & Associates Limited's sister company. MYTON Project Management Limited is an established Project Management team offering an all-encompassing service of managing the Architectural and Engineering Design component as well as Construction Management services.
Relationship Diagram (click to enlarge image)
3D "Sketch-Up" Concept Design, Acadia University Biology Lab (click to enlarge)
MYTON Project Management Limited