Look, up in the sky! A bird! A plane! A massive crane!

You can see it from blocks away – a 320-foot-tall crane with a 267-foot-long arm looming over the Adams Neurosciences Tower Project construction site at the Saint Raphael Campus.

The crane symbolizes a major project milestone, as crews use it to oh-so-carefully place the steel beams that form the skeleton of the Sherman Tower. The building will have 72 single-bed rooms for medical and surgical orthopedic, spine, and neurosciences patients, along with neurosurgery ORs and radiology and biomedical imaging. The Sherman Tower will become the new Saint Raphael Campus main entrance, with access from George Street.

Meanwhile installation of the “curtain walls” that make up the McGivney Tower exterior is almost complete. If the exterior looks familiar, that’s because it was purposely designed to resemble that of the Smilow Cancer Hospital on the York Street Campus.

Just as Smilow brought world-class cancer care to Connecticut and beyond, the Adams Neurosciences Tower project will advance state-of-the-art, nation-leading neurosciences care and biomedical imaging.