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Corrections under way on science building
By BARRY MASSEY
Mechanical and electrical problems in the new $6 million Orr-Major basic science building at the Medical Center are being accounted for by doctors according to state and university reports.
Staff Reporter
Another problem was a frozen water pipe that broke and covered the floor of a student room.
He said problems with heating and ventilation had caused extreme temperature spikes.
The building has been in use since last summer, but Louis Krueger, state architect, this week that problems developed this winter with the building's elevators and with the heating, ventilating and plumbing systems.
The building has been tentatively approved by the state architect but Krueger said approval was given under the condition that contractors correct any problems on a "punch list." The punch list is prepared by the state architect's office and lists all items that must be finished or repaired before the contractor is paid in full.
Kruger said that a report from inspectors last week indicated that most of the cases in his office were
Frank Zilim, Med Center director of facilities planning, said, "The problem is we've been collecting a building that isn't yet complete. We're getting very close, but the last 5 per cent is always the hardest to get cleaned up."
Zilm said the main heating problem was in balancing the amount of heat coming in and out of the room.
The early occupancy of the building caused problems for both students and instructors, Alan Thompson, acting chairman of the physiology department, where there were extremes of hot and cold in the rooms and elevators often failed to work.
"Our problems were not so much in getting in as those of occupying the space,"
City seeks aid for road project
The Lawrence City Commission decided last night to seek county help to fund an improvement project on part of low street. The proposed project is outside city limits.
The project calls for the widening of Iowa Street from Princeton Boulevard to Lakeview Road and from Iowa to Kasadu. The project will make Wilden, assistant city manager, said.
City officials have said that the project was needed to relieve heavy traffic flow to the Santa Fe Industrial subdivision, south of Lakeview.
the cost or the project has been estimated at $1,179,140, according to Commissioner Marine Argersinger. The city has been authorized to receive $1 million in highway funds from the state department of transportation to help pay for the project. That amount is about 50% matching basis, with the state paying 70 per cent, Wilden said.
In other action, the commission approved an ordinance ordering the condemnation and appropriation of land between Vermont and Tennessee streets, north of 8th Street to the south of Dearborn Street as part of the proposed Constant Park, a riverfront development project.
The owner of the land was unwilling to
control it, but the city has the power
to condemn it.
The proposed park will be named after the late J. L. "Tommy" Constant, a former city commissioner and member of the University Endowment Association.
"DOORS WERE slamming, bells ringing and it was really chilly in there," he said, "but there was no other time except that once that I had to stop my classes."
The contractors responsible for work on the building are: Evans Electrical Construction Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Trugo Thomas Construction Co., Jacksonville; Thomas Construction Co. St. Joseph, Mo.
Frank Applegate, chief of mechanical engineers in the state architectural services division, said that as soon as all the contracts were completed, his office would be going to determine whether problems with the mechanical system had been corrected.
"WELL GO IN on our own and check things out." Applegate said, "but I don't think we've got any monumental problems—just a fine tuning, so to speak."
He said that when construction was near completion the state made an inspection to determine deficiencies which contractors are responsible to correct.
Inspections of University buildings under construction to determine minor problems are standard, Max Lucas, University director of facilities planning, said.
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The Orr-Major building, which was begun in November 1973, is a five-floor concrete structure that houses a 300-seat auditorium, library, classrooms and six laboratories.
Poll indicates discontent with child care facilities
About 40 per cent of students, faculty and staff members at the University of Kansas surveyed recently by the University have received training with child care facilities in Lawrence.
By BETH GREENWALD
Staff Reporter
Results of a survey prepared by a child care task force at KU indicated that of 416 persons who answered the survey, 39 per cent said their needs for child care weren't being met, including about 50 per cent of faculty and about 25 per cent of faculty and staff.
Bill Remmers, Lawrence graduate student and task force chairman, said yesterday students were more concerned with costs of child care, and faculty and staff probably were more concerned with the condition or lack of child care facilities.
The task force, created in May 1979 by DeI Shankel, executive vice chancellor, surveyed the students during fall enrollment and commissioned members to KU staff and faculty members.
THE TASK FORCE has sent the survey results and several recommendations to Shankel. It suggested that the University buy the Wiesley Foundation building, which houses the Hilltop Child Development Center, 1314 Oread St. The Wiesley building now is being rented from the Methodist Foundation.
About 54 per cent of those who are unhappy with child care services said they preferred the creation of more day-care centers than use babiesitters or nursery schools.
it also suggested formation of a child care council, made up of faculty, staff, citizens
and students to take over the responsibilities of the task force.
The task force also recommended that information be gathered to plan for future child care needs. Remmers said that because there was no way to know how many KU students and faculty members now needed child care services, it was difficult to tell kind of facilities were needed.
JEANNETTE JOHNSON, Shankel's
assistant, said Shankel hadn't and
enough money to cover her fees.
However, Johnson said that KU had requested state funds to purchase the Wesley Foundation building and that the university's recommendations depended on legislative action.
Eight of the nine child care centers listed in the Lawrence telephone directory now are full and several of them have waiting lists. There may be more day-care centers in private homes that aren't listed in the phone book.
NANCY ROZZELLE, supervisor of the Toddler Center, 313 AA Bristol Terrace, said her center always had a waiting list for children of few that accepted children under age 3.
The four federally-funded child care centers in Lawrence are Children's Learning Center, Hilltop, Little Indian Center and the United Child Care Center and Nursery School. The four centers have an enrollment of accredited public relations chairman for the Douglas County Child Development Association.
LANGLEY SAID there are 12 children under age 3 and two children between ages 3 and 6.
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