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Article: GORDON HINCKLEY ALUMNI, VISITORS CENTER GETS 'TOPPED'
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 8, 2006
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Brigham Young University issued the following press release:
The construction of the Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center reached a milestone during a "topping out" ceremony Dec. 8. Topping out is a term used by steel workers that signifies the last piece of steel being hoisted into place on a structure. For the GBHB the designated piece of steel is a pyramid-shaped roof section for the clock tower weighing 14,000 pounds.
"The clock tower is very appropriate to receive the last piece of steel," says King Husein, owner of Span Construction & Engineering, who, in conjunction with Okland Construction, has the responsibility of erecting the new ...