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Inside clock tower before structural steel installation Stonemason preparing new sandstone for cutting
“We’ve replaced all fifteen hundred pieces of With a $34.1 million investment to complete the
mortar,” says Bell. “We've replaced the roof and rehabilitation, the team decided to purchase all of
reinforced the verandas and balconies as well as the machinery for the project.
redone the wood underneath the roof, so all the old
timber’s gone away, and the new timber’s gone in.” “That was the most strategic investment we could
189 of the building’s 191 original wooden window make for the project - we’re now in the process of
frames have been repaired and preserved and given reselling the machinery,” Bell says, which includes
new sashes and glass; the remaining two windows the stone mason’s cutting room, the scaffolding
remain completely original. system that shrouded city hall and the office the
construction workers used.
The building has been given a new rain-water
management system using weeping tile that drains Once the city recoups the funds from that, Bell
water away from the building, into the stormwater expects the project to be on budget.
system and out onto the main street.
PUBLIC REACTION
FINANCING THE RESTORATION TO THE PROJECT
Like any major construction project, there are Bell has been involved in many projects over the
invariably budget concerns, and mitigating them decades and says that Calgary’s Historic City Hall
in the case of the Historic City Hall fell on Bell. rehabilitation had much more interest from the
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