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The Alaska Connection

Boise-Cascade Corp. is helping Fairbanks, Ak., celebrate the U.S. Bicentennial by providing it with one of the largest wood apartment buildings in the world and a huge new wood hospital, for the city's festivities. Both buildings were constructed in modules in the "lower 48" and then being shipped via rail, barge and truck to Alaska, the most economical way such structures can be built in Alaska's short building season.

The $5 million, 33,000 sq. ft. medical-surgical clinic and hospital in T0modules wasbuilt in Boise's Eugene, Or., plant. Each module comes complete with cedar siding, carpeting, wallpaper as well as plumbing, heating, lighting, intercom and fire alarm systems, ready to be hooked up on site.

As construction was completed on the hospital on July 4, the first of 192 modules of the five-story, 2x4- and 3x4framed apartment building was scheduled to arrive in Fairbanks. The modules for the $4.6 million structure, which provides more than 65,000 sq. ft. of area and contains 96 units, were built in Boise's Meridian, Id., plant and then shipped to Fairbanks: 2,500 miles in all. The building, owned by the Alaska State Housing Authority, will be a home for the elderly.