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BREWER (NEWS CENTER) -- Students from the Capri, Washington and State Street schools as well as Brewer Middle School signed the top beam of their new school on Thursday.
The future elementary school in Brewer is designed to hold as many as 1,500 students.
Normally the honor of signing a construction beam on a project is only given to the builders working on it. However, Nickerson & O'Day extended that honor to the kids, who then got to watch the beam be hoisted into the air.
Brewer Superintendent Dan Lee says it's important to have the kids invested in the project, calling it a "wonderful learning experience."
"I suspect that over the next few months we'll have a number of activities here at the school that will help our students to see what the real construction project looks like," he said.
Nickerson & O'Day expects that about a million man hours will go into the new school---making it one of its largest projects to date.
The company hopes to have the school complete by June of 2011. Upon completion, it will be the largest K thru 8 school in the state of Maine.
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