Hay Storage Building – Design Build, Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency, Jerseyville, ON

Hay Storage Building – Design Build, Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency, Jerseyville, ON Description: The Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency (CPMA) is the federal agency responsible for regulating pari-mutuel betting in Canada on horse racing. It operates a drug control (anti-doping) program in support of that mandate.

The CPMA’s Equine Centre in Jerseyville, Ontario currently has one (1) single-story building that is used as an office space and equine stable and one (1) single-story building that is used as a garage. Hay used for feed is stored in a room within the equine stable. Hay bales are delivered to the site and manually unloaded and stacked in the building.

AAFC would like to consider building a separate hay storage shed on the Jerseyville site for the following reasons :

• Storage of hay can pose a fire hazard and thus it would be good practice to store hay in a separate building from where animals are housed.
• Current hay storage location lacks ventilation, resulting in waste as hay bales mould over time with indoor and outdoor temperature fluctuations. Affected hay must be discarded as it is no longer suitable to be fed to horses.
• Industry practices in terms of how many bales are produced and delivered are changing. Most suppliers want to deliver larger loads of bundled bales (e.g. 315 at a time packaged as bundles of 21). Given current site set up at Jerseyville this means each bundle must be broken apart and individually stacked by employees resulting in a large amount of manual handling and labour leading to OHS Concerns and;
• Common practices in the industry are also moving to production of large square bales which are too large to manually move. In order to continue receiving small, manually handled bales the facility pays a premium price for hay. The Equine Centre has identified a potential site for construction of a new, separate hay storage shed and determined this structure would have approximate dimensions of 47’ x 45’ x 20’ and includes an overhead door estimated at 16’ high and 14’ wide and a side door 7’ high and 4‘ wide. The contractor will be responsible for the design and construction of this hay structure. Construction Time: All work must be completed and ready for use by the client is on or before February 16th ,2024.