Village built for construction workers could end up in landfill, but there’s no room - Global Construction Review

Village built for construction workers could end up in landfill, but there’s no room - Global Construction Review

As a brand new hydroelectric dam in remote Northeastern British Columbia, Canada gears up for full generation this autumn, locals are grappling with an unexpected problem: What to do with the CAD$470m village built to house 1,700 construction workers during the dam’s decade of construction? Located near the small city of Fort St John more than 1,200km north of the province’s main population centre of Vancouver, the village built for BC Hydro’s …