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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AIR HEATERS FOR BOILER HOUSE ADDITION

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President Chase submitted the following letter from the Supervising Architect and concurred in the recommendation: August 2, 1930 President H. W . Chase, JSS Administration Bldg., (W) BOILER HOUSE ADDITION Dear President Chase: In connection with the raising of our new boilers, we have to purchase air preheaters. They have to be specially designed tofitthe Babcock and Wilcox boilers and therefore must be designed by the B. & W . Company, and to insure successful operation, should be manufactured by them. They have made us a proposal for these two heaters of $6,673 less an educational discount of $794, making their net bid $5,879. I recommend that the contract be awarded to them on this basis. Yours truly,

James M. White

Supervising Architect On motion of Mr. Armstrong, a contract with the Babcock & Wilcox Company for these heaters in the amount of $5,879 was approved.

HEATING CONTRACT ON THE MEDICAL AND DENTAL LABORATORIES

Mr. J. O. Merrill, of thefirmof Granger & Bollenbacher, presented the following l s of bids received on June 20 for the heating of the Medical and Dental Laborait tories Building. Dr. W . L. Noble of the Board of Trustees was present when these bids were opened. Mr. Merrill submitted a recommendation from his firm that the contract be awarded to the Davis Construction Company of Chicago, whose base bid was the lowest at $69,995. August 4, 1930 Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Re: SELECTION OF HEATING CONTRACTOR FOR MEDICAL AND D E N T A L COLLEGE LABORATORIES Gentlemen: W e enclose herewith Schedule of bids received for the heating work. In this connection we wish to call your attention to the fact that the Davis Construction Company has submitted the lowest base bid, which includes all of the work necessary in the new building, but does not include the necessary alterations to the heating pipes in the present hospital building to properly connect to the new work. This work within the present hospital building is included in alternate No. 4; on the basis of the base bid, plus alternate No. 4 the United Plumbing and Heating Company are low. W e have given this matter careful consideration and have taken up the matter of alternate No. 4 with Mr. Hammond and Mr. L. A. Snider who are of the opinion that the work included in this alternate should not be included in the present contract. The amount of alteration work to present lines in the Research Hospital Building to take care of the Medical and Dental College Laboratories Building and other recent buildings has not yet been definitely determined and no definite plans and specifications for this alteration work have been made. Thefiguresincluded in alternate No. 4 were obtained by an investigation of the present work by the various bidders and amount to l t l more than an estimate on ite their part as to the cost of required changes. W e therefore recommend that the contract be let to the Davis Construction Company on the basis of their base bid of $69,995 and that the work included in alter-