The bathroom items are being donated as a result of the renovations of two Banff Centre residence buildings, Lloyd Hall and Corbett Hall. "We wanted to act in accordance with the environmentally sensitive values of The Banff Centre," says Wayne Stevens, director of Physical Facilities at The Banff Centre. "We didn’t want the appliances in these bathrooms—which are in perfectly good condition—to go to landfill sites, so we asked our contractor, Gabriel Construction, to come up with an alternative."

Gabriel Construction’s project manager Rick Schmeichel says Gabriel Construction Ltd. was happy to rise to the challenge of finding an ecologically sensitive solution. "As a contracting firm we always strive to find environmentally friendly solutions to our project requirements," he says.