Windows boarded up at Hamilton provincial gov’t building

Watch for glass under a downtown Hamilton building.

The Ellen Fairclough building has windows cracking and the province is boarding up dozens of windows. The 20 storey tower built in 1981 is home to several provincial offices.

It was originally a part of the Hamilton Convention Centre but was renamed a year later after Fairclough, a Hamilton city councillor from 1946-49 and later Canada’s first female federal cabinet minister.

The Fairclough building is the Hamilton’s 4th tallest.

The city filed complaints last week about falling glass. In order to protect pedestrians on King St and the bus terminal on MacNab directly below half of the cracked windows, the province put up boards while they are fixing the problem.

There are now over 40 pieces of plywood up on the building. Last year there were 9 damaged windows, and one dropped to the ground. Luckily no one was hurt.