Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels Architects tops off St. Clare Home in Newport

St. Clare Home - Newport, RI

Newport, RI Members of the development, design and construction team, along with staff, residents, their families, members of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence and Newport mayor Jeanne-Marie Napolitano, among other visiting dignitaries and politicians, signed the last steel beam during a “topping off” ceremony at St. Clare Home. 

Durkee, Brown, Viveiros & Werenfels (DBVW) Architects is working with St. Clare Home to renovate and expand its existing 47 bed nursing facility to meet the evolving long-term care needs of the community. 

Members of the construction team raise the final beam into place for the addition at St. Clare Home.

The project will add 13 skilled nursing beds and 40 new independent/assisted living units, as well as an adult day care program, while transforming St. Clare into a “household” model for nursing care. Common amenities will include a media room, several group gathering spaces, physical therapy and exercise facilities, a below-building parking area and therapeutic gardens

The project team includes: contractor, Behan Bros, Inc.; project manager/development consultant, FJS Associates, LTD; structural engineer, Yoder + Tidwell, Ltd.; civil engineer, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.; mechanical/electrical/plumbing, Wilkinson Associates and electrical engineer, Building Engineering Resources, Inc.