Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1986 [PAGE 589]

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BOAKD OF TRUSTEES

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bid and requested permission to withdraw it since, due to the error, it could not fulfill its contractual obligation without suffering economic hardship. University officers have determined that there is demonstrable evidence that the bidder made a bona fide error in the preparation of the bid, that the error will result in a substantial loss to the bidder, and recommended that the bidder be allowed to withdraw his bid. The university counsel has advised that, under these circumstances, the University's regulations allow the University to permit the withdrawal.) O n motion of Mr. Howard, these contracts were awarded by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, M r . Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. H a h n , M r . Howard, M r . Logan, M r . Madden, Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Smith; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, M r . L a m m ; no, none; absent, Mr. Becker.) Employment of Architects/Engineers (By the Capital Development Board), Digital Computer Laboratory Addition, Urbana, and Engineering Research Facility, Chicago (29) The Eighty-fourth General Assembly appropriated $1.1 million from the Build Illinois bond fund for planning an addition to the Digital Computer Laboratory at the Urbana campus. Some 60,000 net assignable square feet for office, classroom, and instruction and research laboratory space will be provided. In addition, the General Assembly apptopriated $2.4 million from the Build Illinois bond fund for planning an Engineering Research Facility at the Chicago campus. The facility will provide approximately 65,000 net assignable square feet for laboratories, offices, and classrooms for the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering, Mechanics, and Metallurgy. The president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends that the Board of Trustees request the Capital Development Board to: (1) employ Holabird & Root, Chicago, for professional architectural and engineering services for the Digital Computer Laboratory project; and (2) employ the firm of Hansen Lind Meyer, Chicago, to provide the professional architectural and engineering services for the Engineering Research Facility project. The professional fee for each firm will be negotiated by the Capital Development Board in accordance widi its procedure. O n motion of M r . Howard, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Day, M r . Forsyth, Mrs. Gravenhorst, Mr. Howard, Mr. Logan, M r . Madden, Mrs. Shepherd, Miss Smith; no, none; absent, Governor Thompson. ( M r . H a h n asked to be recorded as not voting.) ( T h e student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. L a m m ; no, none; absent, M r . Becker.) Lease of Space, Chicago (30) The chancellor at Chicago has recommended that the University contract with "Riceland" (a California limited partnership) and American Development Corporation to lease 6,440 square feet of space in the Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, for the period August 1, 1986, through June 30, 1991. The space will provide offices for the faculty and staff of the Center for Urban Economic Development, Voorheej Center, Art Study Collection, Citylab, other faculty of the College of Architecture, Art, and Urban Planning, and staff of the Technology Commercialization Program.