Bill Nankivell is the CEO of B+H Architects, a leading global design solutions and consulting firm with a legacy of over 65 years of award-winning work.
Since joining B+H in 1996 as a partner and appointed as CEO in 2006, Bill’s strategic vision has catalyzed the firm’s growth into the US, Middle East and Asia, significantly contributing to the urbanization of the world’s major metropolises through B+H’s regional centres of excellence. Consequently, Bill’s architectural career has seen him travelling extensively to Shanghai and Singapore since the early 1990’s.
B+H was one the first foreign architecture firms to establish a presence in China through the opening of its Shanghai studio in 1992, which anchored and fueled its expansion into Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City in 2010 and Hong Kong in 2013. Now with projects in over 30 countries, B+H’s 480+ team members collaborate across nine studios in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Seattle, Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore & Ho Chi Minh City, and its vehicles of design and solution creation include strategic consulting, architecture, planning, landscape, and interior design services.
Bill holds a Bachelor or Architecture from the University of Toronto and has over 30 years of experience specializing in pre-design (programming, feasibility studies, master planning) and new project development (public-private-partnership and design-build delivery methods). Bill’s deep expertise in the healthcare and higher education sectors has resulted in their global growth and a remarkable portfolio of award-winning projects at B+H.