Project Highlights:

• The new state-of-the-art facility, called GreenWorks, benefits the City of Peabody by offering 40 full-time job opportunities; redeveloping an unoccupied, underutilized parcel of land; and increasing excise tax revenue, as well as providing water/sewer upgrades and a new storm water collection/filtration system.
• GreenWorks recycles up to 30 tons an hour, providing a great benefit to our environment.
• GreenWorks is the largest custom-designed recycling center north of Boston, located on Route 1 in Peabody.
• Ground-up construction of this 55,000-SF, state-of-the-art recycling process center included site improvements for the 4-acre site.
• Project highlights include a gable roof that rests on specially designed steel joists spaced 7 feet apart, providing a 185-foot clear span, as well as an observation mezzanine for students and customers to view the GreenWorks process for educational purposes.
• The single-story building has a height of 60 feet (from building slab to roof deck), with close to 55 feet of clear height inside the structure.
• A total of 37,000 cubic yards of granite had to be blasted within 40 feet of a water tower. This required a specialized blast plan to ensure there would be no damage to the water tower. The plan included a specialized detonation system that used a computer chip in each detonator to assure the timing of the blast was precise.
• Half of the blasted rock was crushed and used for the base material beneath the access road and parking areas.