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Educational and Training Facilities
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Schools are always challenged to find innovative ways to motivate children to stay active. Media is reminding us of the need to encourage our kids to seek fun activities that will keep them fit. A climbing wall in your school's gymnasium is an exciting complement to any fitness program.
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What a climbing wall can do for your school:
- Climbing fosters goal-building, mental focus, and a spirit of trust.
- Climbing is a life-long, very social activity - with lots of opportunity and reasons to communicate and support others around you.
- Climbing requires an excellent combination of strength (especially upper body), flexibility, and problem-solving skills.
- Boys and girls, men and woman can all climb together – without compromising their individual level of challenge. It is truly an activity that can be developed and refined easily throughout one’s life.
- Climbing is a non-violent activty that requires focus and drive.
- Different sized people can climb together – the size discrepancy is not an issue.
- Not equipment intensive, and does not require the organization associated with playing team sports.
- A simple challenge with few complex rules.
- Improves self-esteem.
- Offers a safe environment to develop responsibility while belaying and "spotting" for others.
- Great for kids who shy away from team sports.
- Provides an exciting opportunity for after school programs.
- Climbing on artificial walls develops the same skills that are used for climbing outdoors, and therefore has an open-ended opportunity to learn new skills.
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HPCW has worked on many educational facilities from elementary to post secondary schools. Below are some of the schools we have completed:
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Mount Royal College - Calgary, AB
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Bouldering Wall at Meadowridge School - Maple Ridge, BC
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Current Projects:
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- UBC Student Union Building - Vancouver, BC. Design & Consulting services to Dialog Architects to facilitate realizing the new climbing wall. Under Construction.
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- CFB Trenton - Trenton, Ontario. Design & Consulting services to GRC Architects and Department of National Defense to facilitate realizing this training and HELO Rappel training facility. Under Construction.
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Completed Projects:
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Meadowridge School - Maple Ridge, BC. Bouldering Wall design, engineering, risk management procedures, staff training.
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- Royal Caledonia College - Prince George, BC. Bouldering wall
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- Ecole Andre Piolat Elementary - North Vancouver. Bouldering Wall design, engineering, risk management procedures, staff training.
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- Cliffhanger Vancouver - Redesign of Lead-Climbing System; Risk Management Systems and Procedures.
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- J.A. Laird Elementary - Invermere, BC. Top-roping and bouldering wall. Conceptual design and structural drawings, staff training, product purchasing and consulting. Phase 2: Lead Wall
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Grand Opening - J.A. Laird Climbing Wall, Phase Two
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- Whitney Point Central School District - Whitney Point, New York. 45' long bouldering/ traverse wall. Design, engineering, staff training, operations and risk management consulting.
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- Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School - 100 Mile House, BC. Complete design, build, staff training, operations and risk management consulting.
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- Vancouver International School - Pitt Meadows, BC. Complete design, build, staff
training, operations and risk management consulting.
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- The Boulders - Stelly's Secondary
School - Sydney, BC.
Complete design, build, staff
training, operations and risk management consulting. The
largest climbing gym in a secondary school in Canada.
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- Lakehead University -
Thunder Bay, Ontario. Conceptual design and structural
drawings, staff training, operations and risk management
consulting.
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- Fort Bragg -
Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. Design project for U.S. Army
at Fort Bragg - the largest military installation on the Eastern
seaboard.
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- Mount
Royal College - Calgary, AB Design, build, staff training,
operations and risk management consulting. This 5000'
square foot climbing gym offers lead and top-rope climbing on
walls 45' high! A rescue and rappel ledge can be easily accessed
for teaching more advanced skills.
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- Merritt
Secondary - Merritt, BC Conceptual design and
structural drawings, risk management and staff training,
product purchasing and consulting.
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- BC Institute of Technology - Vancouver, BC.
A racquetball court conversion for this leader in education. Complete design/ build, staff training, purchasing.
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- Ballenas High School - Parksville, BC. Complete
design/ build, purchasing, staff training.
- Frank Hurt Secondary School - Surrey, BC. Complete
design/ build/ training.
- Howe Sound Secondary - Squamish, BC. Design,
engineering, training, purchasing.
- Brackendale Secondary - Brackendale, BC. Design,
engineering, training, purchasing.
- UBC Bird Coop's Kaleidacave - Vancouver, BC.
Systems wall/ campus board
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