ATHABASCA – The historic Athabasca Public School could soon be utilizing a photovoltaic (PV) spread for power and a geoexchange system to heat and cool the building as part of a proposed revitalization project for the 110-year-old building, but it’s entirely dependent on the success of a $2.33 million grant application.
Town of Athabasca council heard from ReImagine architect YangYang Jiao at the Dec. 6 regular meeting who laid out some of the plans for the Old Brick School, as it’s known informally in Athabasca, and the application she prepared and submitted on behalf of the town to apply for grant funding through the Government of Canada’s Green and Inclusive Community Buildings (GICB) grant.
The funding is granted based on factors of accessibility, greenhouse gas emission reductions, energy savings and climate resiliency, and the revitalization plans for…
