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Oregon Health & Science University this week celebrated the topping out of a new five-story building at its Marquam Hill campus.

The Elks Children’s Eye Clinic is a 64,000-square-foot structure that will be connected directly to the existing Casey Eye Institute via a sky-bridge. The project was designed by Seattle-based NBBJ and is being built by general contractor Skanska USA Building.

On Monday, union ironworkers with Carr Construction placed the final structural steel beam atop the roof level as a crowd watched from the street below.

The clinic is being built on the site of the former OHSU School of Dentistry, which was demolished last year following a two-year process that required shoring up an abutting hillside. A 14-story hospital expansion project is also planned at the site.

The new clinic will feature an 11,500-square-foot children’s eye clinic and space dedicated to macular degeneration, ophthalmic genetics and clinical trials.

Outside, there will be a multi-sensory garden with seating, pathways and a café courtyard. Completion of the project is expected by July 2020.