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Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: February 16, 2018
Congress Building named construction manager for Atria Ridgefield
Ridgefield, CT Formation Development Group has selected Congress Building Corp. as construction manager for its 82,000 s/f 86-unit assisted living and memory care community. Atria Ridgefield will be operated by Atria Senior Living. This is the sixth project between Atria and Formation, and the first in Fairfield County. The architect is PRDG. Faulkner Design Group is the interior designer. The civil engineer is CAA.
William Nicholson, CEO of Congress Building said “We are excited to have been selected for this project and are honored to work with Formation Development.”
Congress worked with PRDG and Formation Development to guide the project through the preconstruction and construction phases. Congress delivered preconstruction and construction phase scheduling, line item budgeting, value engineering, cost estimating, and evaluations of alternative building systems options.
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