Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1988 [PAGE 503]

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1988]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Contract, Steam Plant, Chicago

(22) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of a contract for $142,000 to Independent Mechanical Industries, Inc., Chicago, the low bidder, on its base bid, to replace 72 economizer tubes at the Steam Plant at the Chicago campus. The boiler, which generates steam at the maximum rate 90,000 lbs. per hour, will receive new wall elements of Corten material. Replacement of the deteriorated tubes will improve its overall efficiency. Funds are available in the restricted funds operating budget of the Chicago Physical Plant Steam Plant. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r . Wolff, this c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d by t h e f o l l o w i n g v o t e : Aye, M r s . Calder, M r . Forsyth, M r s . Gravenhorst, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . L o g a n , M r s . S h e p h e r d , M i s s S m i t h , M r . Wolff; n o , n o n e ; absent, G o v e r n o r T h o m p s o n . ( T h e s t u d e n t a d v i s o r y v o t e w a s : Aye, M r . E v e n s o n , M r . W y l i e ; n o , none.)

Contract, Addition to 1203 West Nevada, Urbana, (Department of Landscape Architecture)

(23) O n February 9, 1988, bids were received for construction of an addition to 1203 West Nevada Street, Urbana, for the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Urbana campus. T h e president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of a contract for $96,744 to John Wright Builders, Inc., Champaign. The project will provide open studio space of 2,376 gross square feet in a one-story frame facility with metal siding and a forcedair heating system. Funds are available in the Fiscal Year 1988 State-appropriated funds operating budget of the Urbana campus. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record. O n m o t i o n of M r . Wolff, this c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d by t h e f o l l o w i n g vote: Aye, M r s . Calder, M r . Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, M r . H a h n , M r . H o w a r d , M r . L o g a n , M r s . S h e p h e r d , Miss S m i t h , M r . Wolff; n o , n o n e ; absent, Governor T h o m p s o n . ( T h e s t u d e n t a d v i s o r y v o t e w a s : Aye, M r . E v e n s o n , M r . W y l i e ; n o ,

none.)

Increase in Electrical Contract, Beckman Institute, Urbana

(24) On April 9, 1987, the Board of Trustees authorized a contract for $2,865,801 with Hatfield Electric Company, Rosemont, for the electrical work for the Beckman Institute, Urbana. An alternate price was requested for pedestrian walkway lights in the bids received on January 21, 1988; and the Board of Trustees awarded a contract at its February 1988 meeting. The low quotation for the lights ($47,800) was not awarded, as an economy measure. Hatfield Electric has submitted a proposal to furnish and install the lights for $45,882. T h e work includes eighteen pedestrian fixtures and fourteen tree fixtures.