(McCarthy Building Companies: St. Louis, MO) -- Colorado State University has reached a major milestone in the construction of the Advanced Technology Lasers for Applications and Science (ATLAS) Facility, celebrating the placement of the final structural steel beam—called “topping out”—on the CSU Foothills campus in Fort Collins, Colorado.

This marks completion of the structural steel system for the two-story, 77,626 sq ft facility, which will house three of the most powerful laser systems in the world and position CSU at the fore of next-generation laser science.

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