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THE BEFORE This was a house that was located in SW Calgary that was set to be demolished in 2015. The house was to tall to move out of Calgary with the roof on, so part of the roof was cut off. The house was prepped and ready to be moved to it’s new location…

After a few days of figuring out exactly how this 106 year old Ice House was built,  we where on the move.  This building had 24″ walls and was built on a hollow pad.  We moved it from the CP Rail yard to the home of the future Banff Museum. http://www.rmoutlook.com/article/Historic-icebox-saved-from-demolition-20170316#.WNKDUBlX1hA.email

McCann’s Building Movers took on this rather large job in 2016 3 years after the floods that devastated Southern Alberta.  This house was moved from a location East of Black Diamond to it’s new location just west Okotoks, AB.  Due to weather delays this house was not moved until early 2017.

Effects of Demolishing Structures Considering all the natural resources that are used to building new houses (fuel, lumber and other materials) it is significantly more environmentally friendly to relocate a building then to demolish and building new. It takes around 30 trees (25 Ft long x 16 inches in diameter) to build an average 1300…