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All topped off: Final concrete pour celebrated at new SickKids Centre for Research and Learning

SickKids Centre for Research & Learning Toronto

May 5 2012: Construction of the SickKids Centre for Research and Learning, seen here from the south on Bay Street, reached a milestone last week …

 

SickKids Centre for Research & Learning

… with a ceremony celebrating the final concrete pour for the 21-storey tower, seen here in a screen capture from a SickKids video of the event

 

SickKids Centre for Research and Learning Tower

SickKids President and CEO Mary Jo Haddad pours the final buckle of concrete

 

Topped off: A new Bay Street building landmark has celebrated a construction milestone with a topping off ceremony to commemorate the final concrete pour on the 21-floor structure.

The SickKids Centre for Research and Learning reached its highest point of construction last Thursday afternoon, exactly two years after construction commenced on the $400 million, 750,000-square-foot building that will house laboratory and meeting spaces for more than 2,000 scientists, trainees and children’s health research staff.

 

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