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The Radisson Hotel and Conference Center  was completed in the Summer of 2003.  Standing at seventeen stories, it is the tallest structure in north central West Virginia.  It will consist of a seventeen story hotel tower and an adjoining two story parking deck/conference center.  The construction budget is $33 million for the 300,000 square foot floor  facility.

Construction was started August 2001 with the installation of the foundation system.  It  consisted of  deep concrete caissons ranging in diameter from three feet to eight and a half feet.  Depths reached up to thirty four feet below grade. Caisson tops were dropped eight feet below grade in the ground level swimming pool area of the hotel tower.

The hotel structure is a steel frame utilizing a combination of braced frames and interior reinforced concrete core towers at the elevators and stairwells.  All structural steel conforms to ASTM A992, a 50 ksi yield steel.  The floor construction consists of a five inch thick lightweight concrete slab supported by composite floor beams.