Shelter builds school for remote First Nations community at Kluskus Lake

Shelter builds school for remote First Nations community at Kluskus Lake
Kluskus Lake School and Community Hall

How does a school get built at an isolated site with no road access? For Shelter Industries of Aldergrove, the answer is easy, build the structure in its factory and lift it to the site by helicopter. Shelter Industries supplied the school and community hall to the Kluskus Indian Band.

“Designing and providing the facility was very much a team approach,” said Nigel Harrison. We worked with the Carrier-Chilcotin Tribal Council, of which Kluskus is a member. The attractive school was designed to blend in with a community in which most structures are log cabins.

There was a short time frame to provide a new school said Harrison… site installation was completed in 21 days. The 5,000 sq. ft. modular school was supplied to the isolated Kluskus village, which is located in the Chilcotin region approximately 120 kilometers west of Quesnel. The challenge was to airlift by helicopter, 19 building modules, five raised roof sections and six loads of material to the Kluskus village from a marshalling area 5 miles from the village. A crew of building trade specialists were flown to the site via float plane from Quesnel. Scheduling of crews and equipment as well as working with weather conditions were some of the challenges facing Shelter Industries.

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“With no road access, modular construction was the ideal solution for this log-cabin style school and community hall.”

Highlights:

CLIENT: Kluskus Indian Band

LOCATION: Kluskus village, Chilcotin

SIZE: 5,000 square feet

TIME: 21 days

FEATURES:

log cabin style rough cedar siding to match other structures in the community
wood beams
Large 19' high multipurpose room with clerestory glazing for natural light.
3 classrooms
Library
Kitchen
Washrooms
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems with digital control.
REMOTE SITE, without roads to the site, modular units were transported via helicopter.

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