Owner: Panorama Convalescent and Rehabilitation Center
Architect: Ambia, Inc.
President: Kim Nakamura
Project Manager: Philip Milianis
Superintendent: Cliff Canfield
Assistant Project Manager: Sherry Eshebaugh
ABC members involved in this project:
Acoustics Northwest, Inc.
Sound Drywall, Inc.
Unity Electric, LP
Williams Scotsman, Inc.
The Panorama Convalescent and Rehabilitation Center has been an essential part of the greater Panorama Residence, the Pacific Northwest’s largest continuing care retirement community since 1965. When their facility needed replacing, Panorama secured feedback from its residents, doctors, nurses, and other related health care professionals on the kind of facility that would best suit their needs. Design began in late 2007, and Rushforth Construction began building in 2008.
Completed in two phases to minimize the disruption to residents, the Panorama C&R project involved demolishing an existing single-story skilled nursing facility and replacing it with a new two-story, 92,500-square-foot skilled nursing center.
Phase I began in June of 2008 and included construction of the two-story, 67,000-square-foot resident unit wing adjacent to the existing facility. In addition to resident rooms, this wing houses the dining facility. Upon completion, residents moved into their new homes and the old facility was demolished. Phase II, a two-story, 25,500-square-foot building, houses offices, physical therapy rooms and staff support areas. It was scheduled for 12 months of construction but Rushforth Construction Co., Inc. completed it a full three months early.
To keep costs down while still providing a safe facility, Rushforth used the Innovative Green Building System (IGBS). The patented modular panelized system is energy efficient and its acoustical properties make it quieter to build and to live in. The panels were fabricated off-site with just-in-time delivery, so that 34,000-square-feet of building went from slab on-grade to roof sheathing in seven weeks.
Rushforth is committed to sustainable building, and during Phase II of the project 98.2 percent of the materials was recycled. A concrete grinder was used to grind the building foundation and sidewalks. The resulting material is now the building foundation and the base for the parking lot.
There were no incidents during the total of 139,145 hours worked on this project, continuing Rushforth’s excellent safety record over the last 10 years.