Exterior containment on a north Red Deer apartment building

A full-height exterior containment built on one section of a three-storey apartment building in north Red Deer, sealing off just the work area on a building people live in.

The job

Rawk J built an exterior containment on a three-storey apartment building in north Red Deer. Instead of wrapping the whole building, the crew sealed off only the section of wall being worked on, so the rest of the building and its entrances stayed clear.

How the containment was built

• Timber framing fixed to the building to hold the enclosure square and tight
• Full-height poly sheeting from the ground to the roofline, taped at every seam
• Plywood hoarding around the base to protect the containment along a busy walkway
• The work area was set right beside the main entrance without blocking it

Working on an occupied building means the containment has to be tight and tidy: residents walk past it every day, and nothing inside can get out.