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University Daily Kansan, November 5, 1981
Page 9
Topeka firm awarded alumni center contract
By LISA BOLTON Staff Reporter
R. D. Andersen Construction Co.
Inc. of Topeka won the contract to build the K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center, Martin H. Henry, and Kansas Endowment Association vice president, said yesterday.
Andersen Construction was one of seven companies that submitted their best shots at the job during a public bid letting last week.
The building committee from the University of Kansas Alumni Association chose Andersen's bid yesterday morning.
Andersen proposed the low bid of $2,863,000, below the construction
cost estimate of $2,915,000, Henry said.
THE TOTAL BUDGET for the three-floor center, which will include office and recreational space, is $4.9 million.
The bid acceptance marks the end of the planning stage of the center, which will be built on the northeast corner of 13th and Oread streets on land owned by the Endowment Association.
Henry said construction would begin Dec.1.
"Of course, I don't expect to see a structure standing there December second," he said, explaining that Andersen would begin by marking off digging sites with stakes and string.
It has taken seven months to arrive at the bid-lending point since April, when the planning committee approved base plans for the center.
Gary Hibbs, a partner in the Kiene and Bradley Partnership of Topeka is project manager of the architectural firm.
He said that the architects prepared a base plan and several alternative plans to allow for flexibility.
FOR EXAMPLE, the base plan includes a passenger and a freight elevator. One alternative plan included another passenger elevator, which would have increased costs by $40,000 to $50,000.
The chosen bid includes five of the alternatives, all except the extra elevator. The alternatives include a
paging system inside the building and landscaping details outside.
Contractors made their bids after examining copies of the plans and specifications drawn up by the architects, Hibbs said.
"They tell the contractor everything he needs to know to put together a price quotation," he said.
"These plans had 77 sheets of drawings—that's a fairly good-sized project. You have to realize the intricacies of the process—the planning, the physical preparation of the plans and specifications, the estimation of the bids—it all takes time."
BOB GREEN of B. A. Green Construction Co. Inc., a Lawrence firm, said his company was one of
those chosen to submit a bid on the Alumni Center.
His company is the general contractor for the Watson Library renovation. It has also built or renovated many of the buildings on campus, including the Kansas Union, which Green restored after it burned in 1970.
Green said bidding was always quite competitive, especially at a time when less work than usual was available.
"You don't worry about the other contractors when you submit your bid," he said. "You just worry about yourself."
"The bid is a matter of what you feel you can do the job for and still make a profit. If you get beat, you get beat."
on campus
TODAY
THE EPISCOPAL EUCHARISTIC FELLOWSHIP will meet at noon in Danforth Chape.
THE RENAISSANCE DANCERS AND STUDENT CREATIVE ANACRONISHERS will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
THE NEW LIFE STUDENT
FELLOWSHIP will present the movie
"Jesus" at 7 p.m. in the Union
Ballroom.
THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR will be a discussion of "Work: Prehistoric Prayer" at 4:30 p.m. in the Ecumenical Ministries Center, 1204 Oread.
THE KU ZEN GROUP will feature Barbara Rhodes from the Providence, R.I., Zen Center at 8 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
KU COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will meet at 8 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union.
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