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SickKids Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Unit

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Parkin helped redesign the Slaight Family Integrated mental Health Unit at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto.  The unit cares for children and youth who are experiencing a broad range of complex mental health conditions and eating disorders. Our first video (series 1) explored the unit and focused on important design elements. Our recent … Continued

Durham Regional Police Services – Phase 2: Construction Update

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Construction for the new Durham Regional Police Services – Phase 2 project which will house specialty police services is well underway. General Contractor, Buttcon Limited, is working diligently towards completing the concrete foundation scope of work by the end of October 2022.

CHEO Opening IR/CATH & SIM Labs

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Parkin is pleased to have worked with the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) on their new Interventional Radiology (IR), Cardiac Catheterization (Cath) and Simulation (Sim) Labs. These spaces opened this month.

Gold Winner:  Kinngait Health Centre

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Parkin is pleased to announce that Global Future Design Awards 2022 awarded Gold Award to Parkin’s Kinngait ( ᑭᙵᐃᑦ) (formerly known as Cape Dorset) Health Centre, situated on Dorset Island at the southern tip of Baffin Island in Nunavut. The location is rocky, exposed, and windswept. The literal translation of Kinngait from Inuktitut is “high … Continued

Maclean’s ranks uOttawa among Canada’s leading medical doctoral universities

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Parkin is proud to be a part of the uOttawa’s team for the Advanced Medical Research Centre feasibility study. The study identifies opportunities and challenges associated with the expansion of medical laboratory capacity and explores how the Ottawa Health Sciences Centre and regional partners could participate in the process. As part of the analysis, Parkin … Continued

Lessons Learned About Educational Design in Northern Canada

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September is back-to-school month, so we’re taking a look at some of the lessons we have learned through our educational design work with Inuit communities. Building schools in the far north presents unique challenges that require special attention from our design teams. Often, the communities we work with have populations of less than 1,000 inhabitants, … Continued

City of Waterloo Community Pavilion Opens

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Parkin is delighted to have attended the opening of the new Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex Community Pavilion on September 20, 2022. Age-friendly and environment-friendly (featuring an E-V charging station and rooftop solar panel system) design focuses on producing a welcoming, accessible, inclusive atmosphere, and creating a cross-generational community facility where people of all ages and … Continued

Parkin Receives Two Touchstone Awards

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Parkin is excited to announce that we are a current recipient of two Touchstone Awards. Corner Brook Acute Care Hospital’s Wayfinding Research Project submitted in collaboration with Dr. Saleh Kalantari, Cornell University achieved the Gold Level, and Providence Care Hospital submitted in collaboration with Methologica Inc achieved a Silver Level Touchstone Award.

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