Inside Indiana Business - Fort Wayne, IN (July 16, 2010): Parkview Health in Fort Wayne says it has passed the halfway point of its $536 million regional medical center project. Hospital officials held a topping off ceremony Thursday to commemorate the final steel beam being put into place at the construction site. The project remains on schedule to open in 2012.

Parkview Health and Weigand/Pepper Construction officials today led a media tour inside the Parkview Regional Medical Center construction site. Construction work on the site recently passed the halfway mark.

(Image courtesy of Parkview Health)

Construction on the project began in September 2008. The $536 million project is on schedule to be completed in December 2011. The facility will open to patients and families in April 2012. The project includes 9,127 beams and columns, 125,750 bolts and 8,250 tons (or 415 truckloads) of steel provided by Lenex Steel.

Lenex Steel is a full service fabrication firm with projects throughout the Midwest region. Lenex owns and operates a 150,000 square foot fabrication facility in Terre Haute. For more detailed company information, please visit www.lenexsteel.com