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The City of Armstrong certainly got its money's worth out of its current City Hall.
The building was constructed in 1916 and is still in use.
It has been renovated and expanded over the years, but the time has come for a new City Hall, which is currently under construction right across the street.
“It's going to be a feature for the City of Armstrong,” said Mayor Chris Pieper of the $4-million building.
Due to budget constraints, the new building is smaller than the original plans called for, but Pieper said it will still be more than big enough for the future growth.
The new City Hall will also follow the wood-first initiative of the North Okanagan community.
Pieper said its design will incorporate locally-sourced wood, such as that in the city's new arena that was built several years ago.
“The forest industry is very important to the North Okanagan and we want to keep that initiative going with our new City Hall,” said Pieper, adding several Armstrong buildings were constructed with a wood-first approach.
The new City Hall also has numerous green initiatives.
Dawn Low, Armstrong CAO, said one of the goals was leave as small a carbon footprint as possible.
“The building is going to be comprised of locally sourced Bc wood, which is considered a renewable resource and has a low carbon footprint extraction value relative to a steel building,” said Low.
“By constructing a completely new building footprint as opposed to continuing to make modifications to the existing City Hall building, we've improved the efficiency of the allocation of carbon resources into the new building versus continual upgrades to an existing patchwork infrastructure.”
Low said the the roofing system is comprised of architectural metal panels that have a 50-year life expectancy equating them to a far superior option than conventional asphalt shingle or torched on roof assemblies.
The new building will also use electric water heaters over natural gas and all of the windows are high efficiency rated which results in the reduction of cooling and heating demands and costs.
Pieper said the plan is to have the building complete before the New Year, but noted that could change due to supply line issues.
