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Architects Limited which now has a staff of 125
with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa.
Lind Nyman, a Director with the firm, has been
with Parkin since 1978; while Principal David
Driscoll joined in 1987, and together the archi-
tectural school classmates have experienced
the company’s growth first hand. “A majority
of our present work involves the ‘P3’ (Private/
Public/Partnership) process in which we join
a team consisting of developers, financers,
contractors, operators and consultants that
competes for infrastructure projects then goes
on to develop the design, finance, build and
maintain the project,” says Nyman.
SPECIALIZATION
Roughly 90 percent of the firm’s portfolio is in
the hospital design sector. Parkin is presently
refining the design of the New Oakville Hos-
pital, a 1.5 million sq. ft. facility that is under
construction and will be completed by the end
of 2015. The new Surrey Memorial Hospital
in BC, St. Joseph’s Hospital in St Thomas, The
Oakville Hospital
