Construction Update

Construction workers prepare to install a window in the new Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center, which will be completed by the end of 2005.

Smilow Research Center
Construction of the Joan and Joel Smilow Research Center remains on schedule. The steel superstructure and concrete floors were completed in January. Exterior brickwork has progressed above the 10th floor and installation of the curtain wall exterior continues. The building is weathertight from the eighth floor down, allowing interior work on the lower floors. Construction will be completed by the end of 2005, and the structure will be ready for occupancy by early 2006.

Rusk Institute
A renovation was recently completed on the first floor of the Howard A. Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. Two deluxe private rooms were created, several four-bed rooms were converted into two-bed rooms, lighting was enhanced, patient bathrooms in rooms and corridors were upgraded, and two nurses stations were renovated.