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2020 Re-opening ceremony. Front row (L-R) Chris Arthurs- Deputy City Manager, Mayor Naheed Nenshi,
Darrel Bell- Acting Director of Facility Management. Council behind.
easily accessible due to issues such as privately and most resistant to water, which they used in the
held mineral rights and land use designations. building’s foundation.
With that, the project team looked abroad to seek There are 15,522 pieces of sandstone in Calgary’s
the stone they required, ultimately landing on three Historic City Hall and Bell and his crew have touched
sources of sandstone. The first was a quarry in 97 per cent of them. “That could range from cleaning
Spain where the stone visually matched what they the stone or minor repairs to major structural repair
wanted to use at the front of City Hall; the second, or outright replacement,” Bell says. “It's a level of
a Polish sandstone that would shed water easily at treatment based on the condition of the stone. We've
higher levels of the building where the stone is most replaced eighteen per cent of the stones and reused
exposed to the elements. The last type of sandstone the balance of that - as a means of rehabilitation, you
they chose came from Ohio - the densest stone take what you've got and reuse it as best you can.”
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