October 6, 2009

Did You Know? Fun Building Facts

When construction on the new Dean Clinic and St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital begins, you will be able to wow your friends with a few of these fun facts!  For example, did you know the new medical campus will have:

  • 1,073 tons of steel.  This weighs as much as 2,200 cows!
  • 4,530 cubic yards of concrete. That’s enough for forty-five 2,500 sq. ft homes with full basements.
  • 2,303,933 linear feet of wire. This stretches 436 miles, or two roundtrips from Janesville to Chicago.
  • 191,000 exterior bricks.  Laid end-to-end, that equals 35 miles, or the distance of running the track at Monterey Stadium 140 times!
  • 95,400 linear feet of pipe. Think of 18 miles worth, or from Janesville to just past Edgerton.
  • 13,800 sq. ft. of glass. That’s enough to cover more than one Pontiac Convention Center with glass.
  • 21,370 linear feet of HVAC piping. This happens to be enough to reach downtown Janesville from the new medical campus!

 To view a rendering of the campus with animated video of both facilities, see our gallery!