Fire Safety and Wheelchair Access Door Installation
This double fire-safety door entering the Boiler Room from the Roundhouse will provide fire protection and is wider to allow for allow single door use and open for wheelchair access.
Boiler Room Exit/Access Door
New door installed in the old exit space, only wider and more secure. This door will allow wheelchair access and exit to the Boiler Room. This space is our focus to develop and restore for facility washrooms and Interpretive Center possibly 2024.
Thank you to the Government of Alberta, Community Facility Enhancement Program, Prairie Crocus Community Fund, Smart & Caring Community Grant, 100+ Women Who Care Hanna, and for all the private donations and HRS fundraising!
Deconstruction
Venture Fabrication Ltd, Hanna cutting the bench seat supports from the south section of Bays 6 & 7 where the Balog Auction ring was set up from about 1974 until about 1992. So glad this pipe was being removed and will accommodate construction of a small exit area inside bay 6 which will guide the public into and out of the Event Center (Bays 1-5). This is one of the exits for the space and was required in the fire safety work. In the picture, Bays 6 and 7 are empty for the first time in many years, at least to 1974 when the auction mart took over the space.
Pipe from the gas overhead heaters were cut out and removed by HRS volunteers. The wires hanging from the ceiling are from the drop ceiling for the auction ring. These were cut down with the use of a manlift donated for use by Venture Fabrication Ltd.
Thank you to all our volunteers on this project!
Resurfacing Upper Roof Deck
Resurfacing restoration work over the upper roof deck of engine bays 6-10 (approx. 6500 ft2) was completed on October 31, 2020, by Cooper Roofing in Red Deer. They installed the drip edge and facia in 2021.
Thank you to Cooper Roofing and funds from the Alberta Culture & Tourism Ministry and the Government of Alberta; Heritage Preservation Partnership Program Grant and a loan from the Special Areas Board to complete this project!