Pictou Landing First Nations Centre © Piskwepaq Design Inc.

Acting as the project and construction manager for the First Nations band of Pictou Landing offered an experience from many different perspectives. It gave a chance to build the actual construction of a design and to gain a perspective from many sides of a project. From working with a local construction team from the Mi'Kmaq community, meeting Health Canada standards, fund-raising for the project, co-ordination of sub-trades and of collaborating with the architectural and engineering design firms.

"The project draws on indigenous Algonquian wood building precedents of lodges, longhouses as well as details from canoe and snow shoe design. The structural bentwood trusses are made from local small diameter spruce trees bent green to formed profiles, and connected with a combination of pins and tension connections. The structure is being built with local labour and will serve as a Community Health Centre, including a medicinal herb garden,for the Mi'Kmaq community of Pictou Landing. The Mi'Kmaq are the indigenous Algonquian people of the Northeast coast of North America."
– World Architecture News, 16 June, 2006