Paul Brandt had been on the hunt for a good used Airstream trailer for some time when his wife happened to see one for sale on her drive from Cochrane to Banff. 

They picked up the 1973 trailer, brought it home and got to work. 

Brandt says  "It needed quite a bit of work so I decided to kind of get my hands dirty and start to tear this thing apart on my own. I'm pretty good at ripping things apart but not so great at putting things back together. It's just been a really cool adventure."

The singer teamed up with SAIT and a team of RV service technician apprentices, 3D and CAD designers as well as architectural technology students who have gotten to work. 

Brandt says he has big plans for this trailer. 

"My hope for this trailer really right from the very beginning was more then just having a family trailer that we could use on road trips. I wanted it to be an item that could be used to create community and to really gather people and to tell stories."

"In some ways it tells the story of this place that we call home our community right in the area of Cochrane here and the story of Alberta where people in the early 1900's came out here from places like New York and tried to make a go of it and how this land changed them."

Brandt hasn't set out an exact budget for the project.

He says the first two questions he asks before starting anything is what if and why not, he says "it's not about the limit."

Brandt says that really opened things up for the team creatively.

Eight different student design teams came up with some incredible designs. He says they aren't able to use all of the ideas but they are putting some of them into the project. 

The trailer renovation project has been named AlbertaBound, after one of his biggest hit songs.

We can expect to see the refurbished trailer completed in about a year.