• Nanaimo Hospital - Psychiatric Emergency
  • Lutherwood Children's Mental Health Centre
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Behavioral Health

Healing communities by design

A thoughtfully designed place for self-discovery, support, and treatment can be the difference between mental pain and mental health. Our design approach for behavioral health environments balances a sense of community with the need for privacy and security. Our spaces are open, embracing, safe, and secure, and they encourage a positive, uplifting sense of purpose and direction.

Discovering our client’s culture allows us the opportunity to enhance their mission and advance health within their communities.

Brenda Bush-Moline Vice President, Buildings, Global Health Sector Leader

Ron Joyce Children's Health Centre

The new Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre empowers children who have cognitive, behavioral, and physical challenges. Our design inspiration was journey, discovery, and connections with community. Familiar materials on the façade—glass, stone, brick, and colored panels—arranged in a rhythmic pattern project a playful atmosphere. Extensive gardens soften the urban site and create outdoor therapy space at grade and within secure terraces on upper levels. Read More

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Architecture We create spaces that are engaging and uplifting, that contribute to our collective sense of health and well-being, and encourage the sustainable stewardship of our communities.
Alternative Project Delivery We provide Alternate Project Delivery (APD) that delivers significant added value in the form of earlier project delivery, reduced environmental impacts, and lowered capital and operating costs.
Digital Practice Technology is reshaping the way we approach design. Our digital practice team helps us push the boundaries of practice, leveraging the power of technology to deliver transformational results for our clients.
Landscape Architecture Whether it's an urban park, a restored wetland, an athletic complex, or a waterfront destination--through analysis, planning, and design, we create inspired landscapes that reflect context and user needs.
Lean Design & Consulting With our knowledge of 3P process and our multi-disciplinary teams, use of multi-scale mockups and real time operational enactments, we help you build or repurpose your facility to eliminate inefficiency.
Lighting Design We're illuminating the promise of place by creating visually dynamic lighting environments that enhance forms, colors, and textures to reveal architecture’s beauty.
Physical Security Intelligent design. Inventive solutions. When it comes to protecting critical assets, our physical security design specialists are with you every step of the way.
Interior Design As humans, we spend a significant portion of our daily lives inside. We believe our emotional and physical well-being is dramatically impacted by the places where we live, work, and play.
Sustainability & Building Performance We blend art and science to help clients realize the full potential of their projects in terms of life cycle cost, energy efficiency, carbon reduction, human health, and wellness.
Urban Planning & Design Our plans help harness the forces reshaping North American communities. We create places that are authentic, green, walkable, connected and diverse.  
Visioning. Brands. Experiences. We create tangible, experiential, and memorable places. Transformative experiences that enhance real estate values and bring people back to a place again and again.
Buildings Engineering With decades of innovation and experience under our belts we’re engineering a promising future leveraging the best in building systems, technology, energy analysis, and sustainable performance.
Commissioning & Validation We consider building systems a performing art—to us, success lies in an opening day where there are no operational surprises.

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