Hot Items 2005 Employees "Top Out" new National Weather Center Building
Doug Forsyth, NOAA Program Manager for the new National Weather Center building in Norman, and Bob Staples, CIMMS Project Manager, "topped out" the structure for the new building, which will house the National Severe Storms Laboratory as well as other NOAA and University of Oklahoma weather organizations.
"Topping out" is a tradition in construction of placing a US Flag at the top of the highest point of the structure when it is put in place. The antenna structure for the National Weather Center was recently put in place and tops off the building at 198 feet above ground level. Forsyth and Staples were given the privilege of attaching the US Flag to the top of the NWC antenna structure.
NSSL and other organizations expect to move into the facility next April.
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/newbuilding/construction/construction.html
6/8/05