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Monday, January 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Snow stops Med Center projects
By CAITLIN GOODWIN
Staff Reporter
Weather problems have forced additional delays in two construction projects at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Snow has halted construction of the new Bell Memorial Hospital. And the construction deadline for the new Radiation Therapy Center has been changed for the third time, according to the radiation center's director, Carl Mansfield.
Mansfield said last week that the deadline was moved from April to May because the heavy snowfall in Kansas City stopped work on the center's roof.
The original completion date for the center was in February, but it was moved twice because of delays caused by a cement shortage.
THE ROOFING SETBACK has halted progress on the center, a five-story underground building that can facilitate treatment rooms were covered by the time the
snowstorm hit, some partitions could not be completed without a roof.
The four radiation therapy machines cannot be moved into the center until the roof is on the building. The largest machine, the $1.5 million machine arrived from Paris in late December and is being stored in downtown Kansas City, Mo., until its room is prepared. The $1.3 million machine is the fifth of its kind in the United States, made for patients with the most deep-seated tumors.
Two men from France were scheduled to arrive early this month to install the machine, but their arrival has been postponed until March, Mansfield said.
THE INSTALLATION OF a 20-million electron volt accelerator, which is used to treat patients with deep tumors who do not need the penetration capabilities of the 40-million volt machine, has been delayed because of bidding problems. Mansfield
In the original bidding a Canadian
company, Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., gave the low bid for $550,000. However, Mansfield said, because there would be a better chance for federal funding for the machine if the University bought it from an independent company, the machine was out for bids again.
The Med Center owns two smaller machines, a 6-million volt accelerator and a Cobalt 60, but they will not be moved into the radiation therapy center until April.
"If we had just started roofing a few days earlier," Mansfield said, "we would have finished before the snow came, and we would still be rolling."
THE SNOW HAS also stopped all construction on Bell Memorial Hospital, which is scheduled to open in June or July, according to Vincent Cool, acting state attorney.
He said the panels that made up the outer surface of Bell Memorial were ready for inspection. In May, an investigating team found 140 cracked and chippped panels. The investigative Committee inspected the panels in October and found visible cracks still in them.
BAD WEATHER prevented most of the committee from inspecting the panels last Monday. The committee will meet today to inspect the panels and discuss the next step.
"Mr. DiCarlo can conform at his own free will because there is no time limit," he said.
Cool said that if the委员会 found the panels unsatisfactory, there was little the committee could do to get Dilcario General Contractors, Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., to comply with its demands.
Reed said the Med Center had to take special precautions because officials knew its tanks for fuel storage were not adequate. The Med Center can store 57,000 gallons on the campus, which is a five-to-seven day supply.
The Lawrence campus has 220,000 gallons of usable fuel storage capacity, which gives it a 144- to day supply.
stantly," Reed said. "We have been low on fue! oil but never to the point where it was critical."
Med Center survives fuel test
To be assured of adequate supplies, the Med Center leased two 100,000 gallon fuel oil storage tanks at the Johnson County Airport in Olathe. Reed said there were 120,000 gallons of oil on reserve there.
Although natural gas for the University of Kansas Medical Center was cut off at a higher outdoors temperature than in previous years, the Med Center was ready with extra fuel oil and diesel to replace the vector of Facilities Operations at the Med Center, said Friday.
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The Med Center and the Lawrence campus have intermittent contracts with the Kansas Public Service Gas Company that deal on gas distribution from the Lawrence Center and the Lawrence campus have been cut off since Jan. 1. Reed said the Med Center had known for almost a year that the Lawrence campus would be shut down.
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"THE MED CENTER has tank trucks that haul oil from Olathe to the campus when supplies are low." Reed said. "These oil reserves give us additional supplies and have also enable us to buy oil when prices were lower and store oil in these tanks."
The Med Center usage rating had been changed after hearings on gas usage between the Federal Power Commission and the gas company. Many high-volume users were told that they could be to cut off from natural gas sooner to insure that residential and small commercial buildings had adequate supplies of gas for heat. Usage increases as temperatures drop.
*WE KNEW we could be forced to use our fuel oil reserve more this winter so we kept purchase orders up fairly con-
Reed said that because fuel oil reserves at the Med Center were inadequate, officials had requested and had given funds to build 200,000 gallons of storage capacity on the Med Center campus next year.
The University of Kansas has a three-stage contingency plan calling for the gradual shutdown of the University if the lack of fuel supplies becomes critical.
the plan, developed several years ago, would go into effect if, during a prolonged period of cold weather, KU's gas supply would not be replenished nor will it reserve fuel oil supply.
KU could close during fuel pinch
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Stage One calls for full operation of the University on fuel oil supplies. Thermostats in most buildings would be lowered to 60 degrees. Buildings closed under Stage One would be: Danforth Chapel; Oread Hall, 11th and Main streets; the Military Science Anexe; the KU hangar at the airport; and the No. 8 school, 23rd and Iowa Streets.
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Once fuel supplies were restored, a two-to three-week period would be necessary to raise the heat in the buildings before classes could resume.
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