We captured these photos of the progress made on the new St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital and Dean Clinic in Janesville.  Temperatures have dipped since these were taken. However, the ground was far from frozen on this sunny day in November, where truckloads of dirt were moved to make way for the new medical campus coming in late 2011.

Here are some fun construction facts!

The new medical campus will incorporate 1,073 tons of steel, which weighs as much as 2,200 cows! Construction will also require 4,530 cubic yards of concrete.  That’s enough for forty-five 2,500 sq. ft. homes with full basements!

The new hospital and clinic will incorporate 2,303,933 linear feet of wire.  The equivalent of 436 miles, that’s approximately two roundtrips from Janesville to Chicago.

And when the exterior brick is laid, Dean & St. Mary’s will use 191,000 bricks.  Laid end-to-end, that totals 35 miles!

We hope to have some Christmas pictures, complete with snow out at the site in the coming weeks!  Please check back with us for more fun facts, the latest information on the construction process and related news.