Between The Lines
Adam Rudnick's reporter notebook
Officials release interesting facts about new hospital building
January 7th, 2010 at Thu, 7th, 2010 at 3:44 pm by Adam
Heather Logan, assistant administrator for Cascade Valley Hospital, tests the communications equipment at the new hospital building Jan. 5.
I just got done writing a story about Cascade Valley Hospital opening its newly remodeled building on Jan. 25.
Although the story won’t be available until our next print edition comes out Jan. 13, I wanted to share some extraneous facts about the building’s construction that Heather Logan, assistant administrator for the hospital, provided to me via e-mail after our interview Jan. 5.
- Crews used about 50 trucks per day for an entire month to do excavation on the site.
- Approximately 80-100 workers were on site throughout the construction phase. Logan said that as of Jan. 5, the building was about 97 percent complete.
- More than 1,600 cubic yards of concrete were used on the building, and crews utilized 160 tons of structural steel.
- The largest piece of glass installed in the building is 7-feet by 9-feet.
- 17,500 concrete blocks were used in the project.
- Here’s a little-known fact: In one of the commissioned pieces of art, a mural titled “Cascades Valley” by Harry Engstrom, Engstrom painted himself and his father hunting on one of the cliff sides. Engstrom is the boy who is kicking rocks off the cliff.
The hospital will hold an open house Jan. 24 for the public to attend.
For more information on the hospital, visit its Web site.
Adam Adam Rudnick has worked as a reporter in Snohomish and Skagit counties since graduating from Western Washington University in 2006. Since then, he has written for a number of daily and weekly publications, most recently The Arlington Times and The Marysville Globe.
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