1994 JAN-JUN-HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE

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frequent meetings, as regular as possible . Steve Greelish asked if they would consider their services topay a for themselves , in a project like this? Mr. Tishman said their current project with SMMA, the cost savings from the schematic design to GMP was over $4. 5 million, in 6 weeks. Some of that the owners decided not to take, much of it they did. It is fairly typical that the services would pay for themselves as long as the budget can be preserved once you start construction. It is important to maintain a level of consistency. What was the total project cost for that $4. 5 million savings? $56 million construction , $67 million total project cost. Merry Sue asked if they had ever worked with a school committee group like this before? Mr. Tishman has worked with a few school groups like this, in New Jersey and Portland Maine, but not in Mass. Paul asked if the SMMA/Tishman project came in under budget? Mr. Tishman said it is still under construction , they negotiated the GMP after the value design was completed. Paul asked what they see their role to be after the pre-construction , if the Committee engages you for that portion of the project? Mr. Tishman said they would provide the Committee with a small staff , 1 -2 full time people, part time clerical and we would be the project administrators - bookkeeping , processing of paperwork, negotiations of claims. We will be the construction department for the life of the project. Peter asked if they were under contract with SMMA? Mr. Tishman said they are both under contract to the State , for the MA Info Tech Center in Chelsea. COMMITTEE DISCUSSION Bill Martiros told the Committee he had talked with Jim Vacarro about converting our 2 schools to dual fuel use. Maybe the architect could look into that. Janice said we should let someone else do it on their budget. Steve Greelish said it will be very expensive to convert. Peter explained we are not funded to look at those issues . Town Counsel would have to be asked if it could be included in their services . Project Managment Firms : Seaman Bratko - the Committee agreed they were not interest in this firm. Hanscomb - they are not interested, especially after seeing these two firms interviewed today. Leher McGovern Bovis - Peter thought they were very professional . He suspects they may be adversarial with SMMA. Paul said the Committee must first think about what we want. What we need is a professional gopher . He read the selection criteria from the RFP. Merry Sue thinks LMB is a very big firm. They were beyond us, above us , more that we need . She likes Tishman better. Bill Jones said we have a fine and very capable architect who are capable of much of what these two firms said they would be doing . 9