What Cameron Chisholm Nicol does

Cameron Chisholm Nicol (CCN) is one of Australia's oldest architectural practices, founded in 1884 and headquartered in Perth, Western Australia. The firm operates as an integrated architecture, interior design, and advisory studio serving clients across eleven sectors including residential and mixed-use, workplace, hospitality and retail, sports and entertainment, co-living and build-to-rent, communities and urban places, health and aged care, and education and science. Its core service offering is professional design delivery — concept design, documentation, contract administration, and increasingly strategic advisory services for government and private clients. The practice employs BIM infrastructure for design and documentation and is led by Managing Director Dominic Snellgrove (35+ years experience, Fellow of the AIA) alongside Directors Jackson Liew and Gavin Broom, with Associates and Associate Directors specializing in healthcare, interior design, and BIM leadership. CCN operates with 11–50 employees and a portfolio of 500+ projects spanning Western Australia and nationally. Revenue is generated primarily through fee-based professional services contracts, tendered public-sector commissions, design competition wins, and repeat engagements with private developers — pricing is negotiated per project based on scope and complexity and is not publicly disclosed. Customer concentration is split across government clients (METRONET, WA Department of Treasury, CAHS, WA Anglican Schools Association), aged-care operators (Rosewood Care, SwanCare, RAAFA), and a base of repeat private developers (Marprop, Peet Limited, Iris Residential, DFD Rhodes, APPL, Perth Airport Pty Ltd). The firm has no external investment, no parent company, no subsidiaries, no public listing, and no disclosed funding history — consistent with a privately held, founder/principal-led professional practice. Its competitive moat rests on 140 years of brand equity, a deep award-winning portfolio, and entrenched regulatory and Design Review Panel credentials that favor it in public-sector tenders.

Name

Cameron Chisholm Nicol

Legal name

Cameron Chisholm Nicol

Website

https://ccnwa.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

1884

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cameron Chisholm Nicol is a Perth-headquartered architecture and interior design studio, founded in 1884, providing integrated design and advisory services across residential, commercial, healthcare, education, sports, and government sectors primarily in Western Australia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Specialized Design Services (5414), Interior Design Services (541410)

akta.pro primary industry

Building Information Modeling (BIM) & Digital Design Services (BPAHAKAK)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Interior design services
• Urban design
• Sustainable building design
• Aged care architecture

Headquarters

HQ city

Perth

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: Professional architecture services spanning concept design, documentation, contract administration, and project delivery across residential, commercial, healthcare, education, sports, hospitality, and mixed-use sectors.
2. Interior Design Services: Interior design services integrated with architectural projects or standalone, including space planning, interior fitouts, and design solutions for commercial, residential, and institutional clients.
3. Advisory Services: Strategic development advisory services including site selection, yield analysis, design quality reviews, technical compliance assessments, and government procurement support for public sector clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cameron Chisholm Nicol (CCN) is an architectural and interior design firm providing full-service professional design services from concept through contract administration across residential, commercial, mixed-use, hospitality, sports, healthcare, education, and aged care sectors. The firm also offers strategic advisory services including site selection, yield analysis, design quality reviews, and government procurement support for public sector clients in Western Australia.

Product overview

Cameron Chisholm Nicol (CCN) is an Australian architecture and interior design studio offering a comprehensive suite of professional design services. The firm operates as a single integrated practice providing architecture, interior design, and advisory services across eleven specialized sectors: Residential + Mixed Use, Workplace Architecture + Interiors, Hospitality + Retail, Sports + Entertainment, Co-Living + Build To Rent, Communities + Places, Health + Aged Care, Education + Science, and Advisory Services. Projects range from single residential homes to large-scale commercial developments, with capabilities spanning master planning, schematic design, documentation, contract administration, and sustainable design certification (Green Star, NABERS). The practice does not offer modular products or software platforms; all deliverables are professional services engagements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture Services
• Interior Design Services
• Advisory Services
• Residential + Mixed Use Architecture
• Workplace Architecture + Interiors
• Hospitality + Retail Design
• Sports + Entertainment Venue Design
• Co-Living + Build To Rent Design
• Communities + Places / Urban Design
• Health + Aged Care Design
• Education + Science Facility Design

Quantifiable outcome

• RAC Arena won 2013 AIA Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture and multiple other national awards
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ARM ArchitecturecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint venture partnership with ARM Architecture for the RAC Perth Arena project. The project was a competition-winning entry and received the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for Public Architecture and multiple other national awards.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• BVN: BVN (Bligh Voller Nield) is an Australian architecture firm with strong education, health, research, and public-building expertise. Comparable to CCN's PPP school delivery track record, healthcare specialisation, and integrated interior design offering.
• Hassell: Hassell is a major Australian architecture and design practice with deep multi-sector expertise (workplace, health, education, transport, residential). It is directly comparable to CCN in sector breadth, integrated interiors offering, and government/healthcare client mix, but operates at materially larger scale nationally and internationally.
• Woods Bagot: Woods Bagot is an Australian-founded global architecture and design firm with strong workplace, hospitality, health, and education sectors. Comparable to CCN in sector mix and integrated interior design capability, with a substantially larger international footprint.
• Architectus: Architectus is an Australian and New Zealand architecture practice with sector expertise in transport, civic, education, and health infrastructure. Comparable to CCN in government infrastructure advisory exposure and integrated urban design / architecture capability.
• Fender Katsalidis: Fender Katsalidis is an Australian architecture practice with comparable multi-sector expertise (residential, commercial, cultural, hospitality). Like CCN, it has built a national profile around award-winning design quality and integrated interior delivery.
• Cox Architecture: Cox Architecture is an Australian architecture firm with comparable sector coverage including sport, health, education, and workplace. It mirrors CCN's award-winning public-architecture profile (stadia, public buildings) and is similarly differentiated by integrated design quality and government relationships.
• Bates Smart: Bates Smart is one of Australia's longest-established architecture practices, comparable to CCN's 140-year heritage. Both firms share multi-sector expertise (commercial, residential, health, heritage adaptive reuse) and a reputation for award-winning public and heritage projects in Australia.
• ARM Architecture: ARM Architecture is a Melbourne-based Australian architecture firm with strong cultural, civic, and sports specialisation. ARM is a documented joint-venture partner of CCN on the RAC Perth Arena and shares comparable civic/public-architecture credentials and awards profile.
• Jackson Clements Burrows (JCB): JCB is a Melbourne-based Australian architecture firm with comparable multi-residential, mixed-use, and public-architecture expertise. Like CCN, it is recognised through national architecture awards and has a strong integrated design approach.

Broad incumbents

• Grimshaw Architects: Grimshaw is a global architecture firm with major Australian operations (transport, workplace, education). Comparable to CCN in transport infrastructure advisory work (e.g., METRONET-adjacent) and education/healthcare design, but at significantly larger scale and with broader geographic reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CameronChisholmNicol

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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