Ground breaking for Health Center – Pro Con CM – KDA Project Architect

August 11, 2011

Peabody, MA – Members of the community, local officials and representatives from Aviv Center for Living recently gathered to mark the official groundbreaking

Peabody, MA – Members of the community, local officials and representatives from Aviv Center for Living recently gathered to mark the official groundbreaking of the Aviv Centers for Living’s Peabody Campus. The expansion will allow Aviv to move all its operations to 240 Lynnfield Street where the creation of one campus will support a broad continuum of care and offer centralized healthcare and administration in one location.
The manager for the building project is Koningisor, Luciano & Associates, Inc. of Framingham and the project architect is KDA Architects of Voorhees, NJ.
Pro Con Inc of Manchester, NH is the construction manager for the $35 million expansion project. The new facility will be called the Waldfogel Health Center.
The new 124,000sf, four-story building will be a state-of-the-art health center with 144 beds and 108 private rooms. The center will offer skilled nursing for short-term rehabilitation and long term care, assisted living, adult day care, home care and geriatric care management.
Highlights of the expansion project include an onsite childcare center, a kosher bistro, a center for lifelong learning and specialty programs in sub-acute care. The center intends to make a significant contribution to the future of healthcare for seniors by providing quality medical services and cultural programming.
The new expansion will be a sustainable, high-quality, energy–efficient building. As part of the initial site work, rock ledge at the site was crushed and re-used as structural fill. The building’s sustainable design features will include a white roof and the installation of high efficiency mechanical systems and low-flow plumbing fixtures.
The building will feature energy efficient, low-e glass windows and doors and low volatile organic compounds (VOC) products will be used for the interior finishes. The building’s main entrance will feature a porte cochere and the site will offer 308 parking spaces with priority parking for fuel efficient vehicles. Indigenous plantings that do not need irrigation and require minimal maintenance will be used for the landscaping.