Recently NatureMaker® completed an installation at the new Collingwood Public Library in Ontario, Canada. After more than a decade of wishing, planning, detours and controversies, the library finally opened on April 6th with people lined up before the doors opened. The three-story, 30,000-square-foot building consists of two library floors, a third floor to house municipal offices, a recording studio and meeting space and will be topped by a green roof. The project is pursuing a Gold Level LEED certification which would make it only the second library in Canada to achieve that status.
At the entrance to the children’s reading room stand two 12’ tall column clad oak Steel Art Trees™. In addition there is one 9’ tall oak trunk mounted in the corner of the story time nook. NatureMaker Steel Art Trees help contribute to the LEED certification due to the fact that the trees produced use 75 percent recycled steel and other renewable materials. In addition, both the odorless and non toxic composite bark and the water-based paint contain no VOCs. According to Alicia Kilgour, the Children and Teens Services Supervisor, “We really wanted to create a magical space for children and I really feel that the trees have allowed us to do this.”
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