Incredible Progress: Building is 60% Complete!

The exterior 'skin" of the building is 65% complete and major equipment installation and rough in is nearing completion. Installation of sheetrock has begun on the interior walls. With 162 workers on the site, overall, the project is now 60% complete and on still on schedule.

Here are some interesting statistics:

• 24,000 SF of glass has been installed. That's enough to fully cover 5 full size basketball courts
• The building has 55,605 lineal feet of conduit (10 miles). Enough to run the entire length of St. Charles Avenue twice. 
• 170,000 lineal feet (or 32 miles) of metal studs are in the building. If placed end to end, they would wrap around the Superdome 250 times. 

Congressman Cao visits

On Friday, August 20 at 2 p.m., Congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao, Representative, Louisiana 2nd Congressional District, visited the Louisiana Cancer Research Center (LCRC) building for a progress report and a tour of the new construction at the corner of Tulane and S. Claiborne Avenues in downtown New Orleans.

Representatives from the Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium member institutions – LSU Health Sciences Center, Tulane University, Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health System – updated the Congressman on the Consortium’s research work before accompanying him on the tour of the facility.

“I enjoyed my visit with the Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium members and my tour of the new facility,” says Congressman Cao. “Louisiana is among the top 3 states in the U.S. in cancer mortality, with one Louisiana resident dying of cancer-related causes every hour. The research that will take place in this new facility will go a long way in helping save lives locally and globally."