Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1958 [PAGE 64]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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School of Nursing remodeling 376 Neuropsychiatry Institute cabinets for room 23 2 500 Alterations to rooms 306, 312, and 313 834 Illinois Surgical Institute screens 813 Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building remodeling room 606 626 Research and Educational Hospitals improved lighting and shelving... 1 015 Total, Chicago Professional Colleges (200 545) Chicago Undergraduate Division Liberal A r t s and Sciences administration equipment 44 Mathematics special equipment 128 Physical Sciences equipment 250 Biological Sciences microscope 1 888 Engineering remodeling and equipment 139 Architecture and A r t equipment 750 Physics Laboratory equipment 5 618 Shop Laboratory equipment 265 Student Counseling Bureau remodeling 775 Physics Laboratory remodeling 8 541 Drill Hall repairs 20 000 Total, Chicago Undergraduate Division (38 398) Grand Total $1 051 289 O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h e s e r e a p p r o p r i a t i o n s w e r e m a d e b y the following vote: Aye, M r . Herrick, M r . Johnston, M r . Livingston, Mr. Megran, M r . Swain, M r s . Watkins, M r . Williamson; no, none; absent, M r . Bissell, M r s . H o l t , M r . Nickell, M r . S t r a t t o n . C O N T R A C T S FOR C O N S T R U C T I O N O F T H E BIOLOGY BUILDING (7) T h e Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend award of the following contracts for the construction of the Biology Building. T h e award in each case would be to the lowest bidder: General — Mayfair Construction Company, Chicago Base bid, plus chalk and bulletin boards, treadmills, and refrigerators '. $1 593 900 Heating and refrigeration — George S. Walker Plumbing and H e a t ing, Inc., Decatur Base bid, plus air conditioning class and lecture rooms 906 320 (This will be reduced by change orders to eliminate temperature controls estimated at $10,000) Ventilation — Robert H . Bishop, Champaign 231 856 Plumbing — Bellis and Miller, Inc., Champaign Base bid, omitting subsoil drainage 284 063 Underground sewers and water — Bellis and Miller, Inc., C h a m p a i g n . . 16 842 Pipe covering and insulation — Standard Asbestos Manufacturing Company, Chicago Base bid, plus air conditioning class and lecture rooms 99 701 (Change orders will be issued to eliminate duct covering estimated at $20,000) Electrical work — Leverenz Electric Company, Inc., Danville Base bid, plus air conditioning class and lecture rooms 313 491 Laboratory equipment — Hamilton Manufacturing Company, T w o Rivers, Wisconsin 308 317 Total $3 754 49° Less estimated reductions by change orders — 30 000 Net $3 724 490 The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend that award of the contract for laboratory equipment be subject to the availability of funds after July 1, 1957, and that it include a provision that in the interim the contractor will prepare shop drawings needed by other contractors in providing service connections for laboratory equipment at cost