Open Learning with Columbia Picnic Tables

Covid-19 has pushed us all to think outside the norm and embrace life in this new era. The period of uncertainty has been challenging for students, their families, and educators. It will be a lost opportunity if this moment is not harnessed to rethink how to move forward.

Proper conditions are needed to be in place for students to learn and for teachers to teach.  Smaller class sizes, proper hygiene and proper physical distancing all need to be assessed and managed.

We were approached recently by Bill Trask, Principal, Ecole Banting Middle School for five of our Columbia Picnic tables. Now you might be curious as to why a school would want so many picnic tables. Bill’s proactive approach was to provide a safe location with proper health protocols so teachers and students can adequately utilize these precast concrete picnic tables and continue learning.

As school reopening has shown, this is not merely a return to schooling as normal.

The Columbia Picnic table is the culmination of over thirty years of producing precast concrete picnic tables for provincial parks and urban spaces. The Columbia picnic table is precisely built for high traffic public spaces. Fittings and reinforcing cages are so solidly engineered that tables can be delivered fully assembled to most sites within 100 km of our Surrey, BC manufacturing plant. Columbia tables are available as a 6′ standard table and a 7’6 ″ wheelchair accessible mode with cantilevered ends suitable for wheelchairs.

All Sanderson Concrete site furnishings can be supplied with base slabs. On site concrete forming can be messy
and is not as cost efficient as using a precast concrete base slab.  Using a precast concrete pad that can be installed quickly can save significant time and money.