WESTLOCK – The completion Busby school’s the new, $2 million gym has been delayed again and is now expected to be finished by early, to mid-November.
School principal Angie Bachand said in an email last week that “there are a few finishing details that are back ordered (for example baseboards),” she said. “The delays are the same, supply-chain.”
Crews have been busy building the gym over the past several months, but delays in the project due to supply-chain issues and material availability pushed back the original completion date by about six to eight weeks. Construction of the new gym began earlier this spring with the concrete walls constructed in mid-March and the 22 concrete panel roof installed in early April.
The original 188-square meter gym was built in 1986 as an addition to the school, which was built in 1947. The new gym is 485-square metres and includes several new features such as hardwood floors, which crews began installing at the end of September, a digital scoreboard, a divider curtain and possibly a portable stage.
