A topping out ceremony was recently held for the $450-million care tower on the campus of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The milestone event signifies the completion of the structural framework of the 350,000-square-foot building. Over the past 17 months, hundreds of construction workers, putting in more than 268,000 work hours, placed more than 2,200 tons of reinforcing steel into more than 19,200 cubic yards of concrete, which is equivalent to around 1,920 truckloads, to complete the structure of the building. The care tower will include an upgraded emergency department, state-of-the-art operating rooms and … Read more