What a climbing wall can do for your Educational Facility:
- Climbing fosters goal-building, mental focus, and a spirit of trust.
- Climbing requires an excellent combination of strength (especially upper body), flexibility, and problem-solving skills.
- Boys and girls, men and woman can all climb together – without compromising their individual level of challenge. It is truly an activity that can be developed and refined easily throughout one’s life.
- Non-violent.
- Different sized people can climb together – the size discrepancy is not an issue.
- Not equipment intensive, and does not require the organization associated with playing team sports.
- A simple challenge with few complex rules.
- Improves self-esteem.
- Offers a safe environment to develop responsibility while belaying and spotting others.
- Great for kids who shy away from team sports.
- Provides an exciting opportunity for after school programs.
- Climbing on artificial walls develops the same skills that are used for climbing outdoors, and therefore has an open-ended opportunity to learn new skills.
- Climbing is a life-long activity.
Schools are always challenged to find innovative ways to motivate children to stay active. Media is reminding us of the need to encourage our kids to seek fun activities that will keep them fit. A climbing wall in your school’s gymnasium is an exciting complement to any fitness program.
HPCW has worked on many educational facilities from elementary to post secondary schools. Below are some of the schools we have completed:
Completed Projects
Below lies a partial list of some of our projects that show the range of work we can do:
J.A. Laird Elementary, Invermere, BC
This is the largest wall in an elementary school facility in Canada. It includes top-roping and a
lead-climbing wall. HPCW provided conceptual design and structural drawings so that local builders could build the facility as part of a community development plan. HPCW also provided staff training, route setting, and product purchasing consulting. The climbing wall is used by the local community, including College of the Canadian Rockies.
Meadowridge School, Maple Ridge, BC
Bouldering Wall design, engineering, risk management procedures, staff training.
Mt. Prevost Middle School, Duncan, BC
Design and Engineering Services for top-roping and lead-climbing wall expansion. Climbing wall was built using local contractors and materials.
CFB Trenton, Trenton, Ontario
Design & Consulting services to GRC Architects and Department of National Defense to facilitate realizing this training and HELO Rappel training facility.
College of New Caledonia, Prince George, BC
Bouldering wall
Ecole Andre Piolat Elementary, North Vancouver, BC
Bouldering Wall design, engineering, risk management procedures, staff training.
Whitney Point Central School District, Whitney Point, New York
45′ long bouldering/ traverse wall. Design, engineering, staff training, operations and risk management consulting.
Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School, 100 Mile House, BC
Complete design, build, staff training, operations and risk management consulting.
Vancouver International School, Pitt Meadows, BC
The Boulders, Stelly’s Secondary School, Sydney, BC
Complete design, build, staff training, operations and risk management consulting. The largest climbing gym in a secondary school in Canada.
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Conceptual design and structural drawings, staff training, operations and risk management consulting.
Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
Design project for U.S. Army at Fort Bragg – the largest military installation on the Eastern seaboard.
Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB
Design, build, staff training, operations and risk management consulting. This 5000′ square foot climbing gym offers lead and top-rope climbing on walls 45′ high! A rescue and rappel ledge can be easily accessed for teaching more advanced skills.
Merritt Secondary, Merritt, BC
Conceptual design and structural drawings, risk management and staff training, product purchasing and consulting.
BC Institute of Technology, Vancouver, BC
A racquetball court conversion for this leader in education. Complete design/ build, staff training, purchasing.
Ballenas High School, Parksville, BC
Complete design/ build, purchasing, staff training.
Frank Hurt Secondary School, Surrey, BC,/h4>
Complete design/ build/ training.
Howe Sound Secondary, Squamish, BC
Design, engineering, training, purchasing.
Brackendale Secondary, Brackendale, BC
Design, engineering, training, purchasing.
UBC Bird Coop’s Kaleidacave, Vancouver, BC
Systems wall/ campus board
