Printed in Alaska Contractor Magazine, Summer 2011 

"Just a year ago in May, the University of Alaska Anchorage and Cornerstone General Contractors celebrated the 25 percent completion of the new Health Sciences Building with a “topping out” ceremony. The last piece of structural steel was ceremonially put in place and a fir tree raised with the steel as a “top,” a symbolic holdover from the days of wood structures. In the year since, Cornerstone General Contractors has enclosed the 65,321-square-foot building, put in the systems to run it, set up the interior fittings and furnishings, and madethe close-to-final touches to have the building ready—on time and on budget—for students in August..."

This is the first phase in the planned construction of a Health Sciences Complex on UAA’s campus and will provide a foundation for enhanced partnerships with Alaska’s health care organizations, including regional Alaska Native corporations such as Norton Sound Health Corp. and Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corp., to address chronic vacancies in the health care workforce..."

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