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Building by the Numbers

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It's taking more than long hours and hard work to build the new hospital at Mayo Clinic.

• 3,883 tons of steel will be used in construction — the equivalent of about 2,450 Toyota Camrys.
• 71,327 square feet of glass — more than 1 1/2 acres — will be installed.
• 4.2 million feet of wire will be required to complete all the power and systems. Put end to end, the wire would stretch from the Mayo Building to Key West and back — about 1,000 miles.