Reaching New Heights
The MCG community gathered April 29 to watch a section of campus rise to new heights.
Celebrating the “topping out” of MCG’s Health Sciences Building, representatives of Turner Construction and the S/L/A/M Collaborative architectural firm of Atlanta raised a Leyland Cypress tree to the top of the structure. As part of a construction industry tradition, the tree, symbolizing growth and prosperity, is raised to celebrate completion of a building safely reaching its planned height, according to Chris Eggen, project coordinator for Turner.
“Facilities projects really have a special place in a president’s heart because they are concrete evidence, pun intended, of what is being accomplished at the university,” said MCG President Daniel W. Rahn.
The 189,000-square-foot, $37 million structure is the future home of the Schools of Allied Health Sciences and Nursing. The building is scheduled for completion next summer.