Mesothelioma and Asbestos

The J Building at Oregon State Hospital is 126 years aged, the oldest building in the intricate. It served as the filming location for the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Jack Nicholson. Consultants had determined that the building was unsafe, obsolete as well as in danger of collapsing incase there were an earthquake.

The building underwent asbestos abatement as well as lead paint removal before being reinforced with steel rebar, recent wooden beams as well as sprayed concrete. The interior core of the building has to get strengthened in order to pass seismic review, fire codes as well as safety codes.

More than half of the building will need to come down to make way for a recent $280 million psychiatric hospital, but the sections being reinforced as well as remodeled will be incorporated into the recent building. Hoffman Construction Co. of Portland is leading the construction of the recent 620-bed hospital.

The sections of the building that are being preserved were chosen for their historical architecture that was developed by Dr. Thomas Kirkbride of Pennsylvania, a pioneer in the field of national standards for mental hospitals in the 1800s. The remodeled section will be home to administrative offices, patient program space, a mental health museum as well as a resting place for the cremated remains of over 3,000 patients who died at the hospital up through the 1970s.

For the filled story, go to Statesman Journal.