The Nicol Building

Home of the Sprott School of Business!

Located in the heart of Carleton’s campus, we proudly opened the doors to our new home in September 2021. The award-winning Nicol Building serves as the front door to the university and a place where students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community can engage, share ideas and find creative solutions to the challenges facing business and society. Designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, the spaces and flow of the 115,000-square-foot facility delivers an inspiring and collaborative learning environment in which business students can pursue their dreams.

Sprott School of Business undergraduate resource centre in Nicol Building at Carleton University. — The Nicol Building in Fall 2021.

Key Features of the Nicol Building

Enhanced learning, networking and collaborative spaces;
Flexible classrooms and innovative learning environments;
Enhanced meeting and event spaces;
Additional space for experiential initiatives such as the Sprott Student Investment Fund and Sprott Student Consulting Group;
New Innovation Hub, a cross-faculty centre for student entrepreneurship;
Sustainable design from core to skin – the project is slated to achieve 4.5 Green Globes.

The Nicol Building honours the vision of the Nicol family, and in particular, the late Wes Nicol, to build a better future for Ottawa. A proud Carleton alumnus, Wes believed in Carleton University and the Sprott School of Business. The Nicol family led the way for a new building for the Sprott School with their generous gift of $10 million.

“I am in the business of building homes. Homes enable co-operation and confidence, which in turn inspire bold ideas and brilliant thinking.”
Wes Nicol (BA/54)