When the $300 million Clovis Community Medical Center expansion construction and renovation are complete in late 2013, more than 2,500 construction jobs will have been created and about 1.5 million hours worked — helping to make it the only comprehensive hospital in the area with all-private rooms. Once complete, the expansion will have used or installed:

• 14,500 dump trucks of earth
• 2,000 tons of structural steel, equal to weight of 1,080 Volkswagen Beetles
• 10,000 cubic yards of concrete, taking more than 1,200 concrete trucks to deliver
• 8,000 galllons of paint
• 1,500 doors
• 7,100 light fixtures
• 30,000 square feet of glass
• 15 miles of new pipe
• 237 miles of electrical wiring
• 400,000 pounds of new duct work
• 300,000 square feet of duct insulation
• 2,200 new medical gas outlets
• 2,500 new plumbing fixtures
• 400 new toilets
• 1,200 tons of cooling to 800-ton system

Jennifer Avila-Allen reported this story. She can be reached at MedWatchToday@CommunityMedical.org.