06/16/2026
The final steel beam is officially in place at the Brody School of Medicine Center for Medical Education, marking a major milestone in the $265 million state-funded project and ECU's largest capital construction effort in more than a decade.
As the tri-venture team of T. A. Loving Company, Barnhill Contracting Company, and Metcon, Inc. continues to bring this transformative facility to life, we were proud to celebrate this achievement alongside our partners, clients, and community stakeholders.
A special thank you to all of the speakers who helped commemorate this milestone and shared the vision behind this transformational project. We are especially proud of T. A. Loving's own and 2x ECU graduate Tom Daniel for speaking on the hard work, dedication, and countless hours invested by everyone involved to make this moment possible.
The numbers behind this project are just as impressive as the facility itself:
🔹 58 trade partners contributing to the effort
🔹 More than 1,100 workers have completed site safety orientation
🔹 Over 350,000 man-hours worked to date
🔹 Enough soil moved during excavation to fill 10 Olympic-sized swimming pools
🔹 Structural steel installed is equivalent to the weight of approximately 950 Chevy Silverados
🔹 One of the project's chilled water pumps can fill more than 28,000 bottles of water in just one minute
🔹 Enough concrete has been placed to pour slabs across 11 football fields
🔹 Enough electrical cable has been installed to stretch from Greenville to Winston-Salem
🔹 Installed piles laid end-to-end would reach 11 times the height of the tallest building in the world
