To Greg Bove, who just gave me the tour and was a construction manager for this facility, congratulations.

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During a tour of the latest construction site, the interior of the West Building was still largely raw space, while the taller annex building already had pipes and wiring installed.

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One stop along the tour is the Mount Hood Freeway, the construction of which was halted in 1974 to preserve the neighbourhoods that would have been demolished.

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Throughout the tour, you could sense the stark parallels between the construction of the most cutting edge, and tallest, skyscraper in the western hemisphere and that of the emerging technology companies looking to be the next Google or Facebook.

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The Regional Development and Infrastructure Minister, Ramaz Nikolaishvili, who heads the construction work, recently told foreign media on a tour of the site that the building would raise the bar on Georgia's levels of visual education.

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