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Pictou Landing Health Centre, Nova Scotia, Building, Architect, Images, Canada
Nova Scotia Architecture : Information + Images
Contemporary Canadian Building by Piskwepaq Design Inc.
Pictou Landing Health Center, Canada
2008
PDI - Piskwepaq Design Inc.
Principal designers of the building: Richard Kroeker + Brian Lilley
Photos: Paul Toman + Richard Kroeker
Pictou Landing Health Centre Description:
The Pictou Landing Health Centre building wraps around the central
space of a Mi'kmaq First Nation fishing community in coastal Nova
Scotia, Canada.
The building houses clinics and consultation rooms, together with
a community meeting space.
The structural system uses local small diameter spruce trees, shaped
while green by members of the community. The use of material draws
on the historic indigenous tradition of long house and lodge construction.
Heating and cooling is provided using geothermal energy from a local
decommissioned municipal well water system. This strategy, together
with heat recovery ventilation, high levels of insulation, earth berm
and mass heat storage have made the building operate at 43% higher
energy efficiency than a conventional building of comparable size.

CLIENT: Pictou Landing First Nation, Health Canada
DESIGN TEAM:
Architectural Design: Richard Kroeker, Brian Lilley
Structural Engineer: David Bulger, Roy McBride, BMR Structural Engineering,
Halifax
Mechanical Engineer:Tom Watson, CBCL Ltd.
Systems Engineer: Trevor Butler
Project manager: Kevin Loewen
General Contractor: Higgins Construction
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