About DBS

One team. From first sketch to final handover.

Design Build Solutions is a Halifax design-build firm. For more than 25 years the same team has designed, engineered and delivered long term care, transitional health and seniors living communities across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario.

Halifax, Nova Scotia Design + Build, one contract Est. in the field, not the boardroom

Our story

Buildings turn out better when the people who design them and the people who build them are the same team.

That is how DBS has worked for more than 25 years, across long term care, transitional health and seniors living in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario. These are regulated care environments: provincial design standards, licensed operators, publicly announced opening dates. Nine provincial nursing homes delivered under one contract, all operational as planned. Nova Scotia's first stand-alone transitional health centre. The lessons from each building carry into the next.

25+
Years of design-build
70+
Care and seniors living projects
3
Provinces
6.6M
Square feet delivered

How we deliver

One contract. No handoffs.
01

Design

Architecture and interiors shaped around the people who will live and work inside.

02

Engineer

Structure and systems resolved in-house, before shovels hit the ground.

03

Build

Our crews and trade partners deliver on time and on budget.

04

Handover

Commissioned, documented and ready to run from day one.

What we build

Care environments where the stakes are high and the standards are strict.

The ACL Group

Backed by the ACL Group of Companies, built to be here in another 25.

Privately held, spanning transportation, healthcare, IT and real estate. That footing lets us commit to decade-long pipelines and stand behind every building we deliver.

Twenty-five years in. Just getting started.