Building topping ceremony on East Campus

University and state leaders and faculty are holding a topping out ceremony for the 257,000-square-foot Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building on the East Campus.

Community members are welcomed to gather from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. Tuesday and enjoy light refreshments as construction workers ceremoniously top the building by placing the last steel beam into place at the top of the building, according to a CU news release. The securing of the final beam symbolizes a building’s safe construction.

Jennie Smoly Caruthers Biotechnology Building, which was designed to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration towards solving biomedical issues, will have its main section completed by late fall 2011, according to the news release.

The building will serve as the home for the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biology, a program that consists of the chemical and biological engineering department and the biochemistry division of the chemistry and biochemistry department.

Contact CU Independent Staff Writer Rose Heaphy at [email protected]