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Handcrafted log railing leads to the carved front doors of the entrance
of BC Canada Place in the centre of Torino, Italy.
Sitka Log Homes was chosen to build B .C. Canada
Place to showcase B.C. products and to offer a glimpse of what the
world can expect for the Winter Olympics coming to Vancouver in
2010. Sitka's previous experience building 3
magnificent log lodges used during the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter
Olympics and their vast international experience was the catalyst
which helped them to qualify and then to win the competitive bid
to build this project.
The project had more than it's fair share of Olympic sized hurdles
to jump over. There was the special engineering needed to safely
place the large building on the chosen site which sat on top of
a 3 level parking garage. There was the tricky task of designing
the building to attach to an existing glass building. 5 out of the
11 containers shipped to Italy contained the log shell, which according
to the European Union, must now be heat treated before shipping.
There was the truckers strike in B.C which caused many logistical
problems in obtaining containers.
There were various train derailments delaying transportation within
Canada and then more truck strikes in Italy when the containers
had finally arrived.
Despite it all the log house was finished by the requested dead
line of Jan 3rd, 2006 just 3 ½ months after receiving the first
container on site, and to high praise from all who've visited it.
By the end of the Olympics in Torino approximately 100,000 people
had visited the house.
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