By Angela Brown

Building upgrade underway at McKitrick School

Aug 10, 2017 | 12:00 PM

Living Sky School Division is close to completing significant upgrade work on McKitrick Community School in North Battleford that will include an entire facade of the school.

Facilities manager Brian Bossaer said the extensive project estimated at about $383,000 involves replacing some of the brick work and making improvements to the skylights on the building exterior, mainly on the west side. Workers are also repairing a narrow section of roof above this area.

He said basically workers will be making improvements to the way the brickwork, skylight and roof connect to improve the exterior drainage. 

“Our main problem was the tie-in from the skylight from the brick,” he said, adding inadequate sealing methods had caused the bricks to deteriorate due to poor run off. 

Bossaer added the school didn’t actually have any leaks inside the building however, just inferior exterior drainage.

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He expects to have most of the upgrade work completed in time for the start of school in Sept. 5. 

“We’re re-doing the facade of that section of school,” Bossaer said. “The roof is due to be replaced… We had leaks, and the brick was deteriorated. So we figured we might as well do the whole thing in one shot, and get it all fixed up properly.”  

The work extends over the area where some offices, a couple of classrooms and the library are located.

Bossaer said when the upgrades are completed, this section of the building will be more leak proof.

He added it was time to get something done since this part of the building, which was built around 1978, has been deteriorating for years.

“It will be a little more modern and hopefully better than it was,” he said. 

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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