Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 134]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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(The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Lamm, Mr. Pittman; no, none.)

Contracts for Laboratory Remodeling, Science and Engineering Laboratories, Chicago

(20) The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the award of the following contracts to provide approximately 2,700 square feet of new laboratories and related facilities on the first floor of the Science and Engineering Laboratories, Chicago campus. The award in each case is to the low base bidder. Division I — General Reed Illinois Corporation, Chicago Division II — Plumbing Bert C. Young and Sons Corporation, Bellwood Division IV— Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Piping Western Ventilating Company, Arlington Heights Division V — Electrical Ace Electric Construction, Inc., Chicago Division VI — Laboratory Furniture Hamilton Industries, Inc., Two Rivers, Wisconsin Total Base Bid $ 34 231 6 500 40 490 8 440 15 787 $105 448

The Department of Biological Sciences is currently involved with research related to recombinant DNA and molecular aspects of development. In order to maintain the research and graduate instruction in this area of study, new facilities will be created in a former storage area. The project will provide three research laboratories, two faculty offices, and two instrument rooms. Approximately fifteen faculty members, supervising fifty graduate students, will make use of the new facility. Funds for this "Renovation for Excellence" project are available in the Fiscal Year 1985 State appropriated budget of the Chicago Physical Plant. A schedule of the bids received has been filed with the secretary of the board for record.

On motion of Mr. Stone, these contracts were awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, Dr. Donoghue, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Logan, Mr. Madden, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Stone; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Lamm, Mr. Pittman; no, none.)

Extension of Contract for the Maintenance of Fume Hoods, Chicago

(21) On January 19, 1984, the Board of Trustees approved a cost-plus contract with Blackhawk Industries, Inc., Chicago, to provide periodic maintenance of some 400 fume-hood systems at the Health Sciences Center, Chicago campus, for the period February 1 through June 30, 1984, with an option to extend the contract for Fiscal Year 1985 under the same terms and conditions. The work has been satisfactory, and the Physical Plant Department has recommended that the option be exercised. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends, subject to the availability of funds,