12-2-94 Trustees Approve Construction & Renovation Projects OHIO STATE TO START SEVERAL MAINTENANCE, RENOVATION PROJECTS COLUMBUS -- The Ohio State University Board of Trustees Friday (12/2) authorized officials to employ architectural and engineering firms and request construction bids for a Parks Hall addition, several sports fields, and dozens of smaller renovation projects. The Parks Hall addition will house a pharmaceutical care center, clinical faculty offices, meeting rooms, and a connector mall. In addition, several labs will be renovated in Parks, 500 W. 12th Ave., home of the College of Pharmacy. The state and college will fund the project, estimated at $1.45 million, including $1.16 million in construction. The sports fields will be constructed on 38 acres south of Lane Avenue and west of Kenny Road. The facilities will enable continuation of intramural programs that use the King Avenue playing fields. Those fields are the site of planned ramps connecting Ninth and 12th avenues with Ohio 315. The new fields will include two multi-purpose spaces containing eight softball and baseball fields, eight flag football fields and two multi-purpose spaces for sports club practices, contests, and tournaments. Total estimated construction cost is $3.5 million; funding is to be provided by future bond proceeds. Project approval is subject to a memorandum of understanding to be entered into by the offices involved. The smaller projects make up Ohio State's 1995 anticipated small capital improvement projects for campuses in Columbus, Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and Wooster. The projects range in estimated costs from $22,000 to $950,000; most are $500,000 or less. The projects are: COLUMBUS Campus-wide: -- Install two restrooms, to comply with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards, in Archer House, Boyd Lab, Graves Hall, Hayes Hall, Independence Hall, the Journalism Building, Koffolt Lab, Newton Hall, Postle Hall, and the Veterinary Hospital. -- Provide handrails, to comply with ADA standards, at building entrances and other exterior ramps and steps at more than 100 locations. -- Build wheelchair access and accessible seating space in lecture halls in Evans Lab, Goss Lab, Parks Hall, Smith Lab, and Vivian Hall. -- Replace 33 emergency telephones and install 92 new emergency telephones to enhance security. -- Replace outside campus lighting with more efficient lights to improve safety. -- Replace deteriorated sidewalks. -- Modernize elevators in various buildings to comply with ADA standards. -- Install or upgrade fume hoods to address ventilation problems in various scientific laboratories and comply with Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules. -- Retrofit light fixtures in Baker Systems, Evans Lab, and Smith Lab with energy efficient tubes. -- Improve storm sewers for draining water from 18th and 19th Avenues along the Neil Avenue corridor to Woody Hayes Drive and complete the 18th Avenue mallway. Arps Hall -- Replace windows with double-pane insulated windows; renovate lab rooms on lower level to accommodate modern instructional technologies (two projects). Biological Sciences -- Modernize four elevators, including emergency features and devices required by ADA. Botany and Zoology Building -- Renovate former library space to house foreign language offices. Bricker Hall -- Renovate space in basement and first floor for administrative use; install a water system to serve the entire building (two projects). Byrd Polar Research Center -- Provide an Antarctic Rock Library for paleontological and geological specimens, and a Sediment Core Archival Cold Room for Russian and American Arctic sediment cores and related equipment (two projects). Campbell Hall -- Replace roof, windows, wood entrance doors and metal stairwell doors (two projects). Carmack Road -- Reconstruct the failed roadway base and resurface the road from its north end to Kenny Road. Cockins Hall -- Provide building entrance and elevator accessible by wheelchair. Converse Hall -- Provide an elevator accessible by wheelchair. Denney Hall -- Replace roof. Dulles Hall -- Replace roof and repair coping, flashing, and lightning arrestor system. Fontana Lab -- Replace chiller. Fry Hall -- Upgrade teaching facilities to support modern optometric training and to accommodate the increased use of pharmaceutical and advanced instrumentation. Haskett Hall -- Replace roof. Haskett and Hopkins Halls -- Renovate space to house photography and printmaking and provide additional teaching studios and laboratories. Hopkins Hall -- Replace chiller. Hitchcock Hall -- Upgrade the heating, ventilating and air conditioning system. Ives and Stillman halls -- Provide heating, ventilating and air conditioning and other upgrades for various lecture halls and classrooms. Jesse Owens Recreation Centers -- Install new heating system, lighting, restrooms, and floor finishes, and paint. Larkins Hall -- Provide wheelchair-accessible showers and restrooms at four locations, an accessible route to the fourth floor, and ramping and enclosed walkway to room 330, to comply with ADA; replace exterior doors and rebuild curtain walls; upgrade heating, ventilating and air conditioning system; remove deteriorated concrete at support columns of the diving pool, diving tower, shower areas, pool walls, and floor expansion joints (four projects). Lincoln Tower -- Upgrade and modernize elevators, bring elevators in compliance with ADA and code. Mendenhall Lab -- Convert vacant space in attic into offices and graduate student space to temporarily house operations during other renovations. Ohio Stadium -- Renovate space in the Behavioral Science Lab and upgrade mechanical system. Pomerene Hall -- Replace outmoded wiring and light fixtures to meet energy efficiency standards. Postle Hall -- Renovate and upgrade lecture halls; replace roof; repair or replace deteriorated, leaking windows throughout the building (three projects). Ramseyer Hall -- Replace roof and gutter, deteriorated plumbing and restroom (two projects). Research Center Building -- Refurbish areas damaged by roof leaks; replace chiller and air conditioning condenser systems (two projects). Robinson Lab -- Replace failing smoke stack. Sisson Hall -- Replace roof. South Polo Field Addition Parking Lot -- Provide better drainage and new lighting and pave the lot. Starling-Loving Hall -- Improve heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system in A Wing; provide ADA-compliant patient care and teaching areas for Low Vision/Geriatric Vision Rehabilitation; modernize elevator equipment to meet ADA standards (three projects). Thompson Memorial Library -- Replace window framing and glazing on south and north sides; replace caulking and waterproof all elevations; renovate heating, ventilating, and air conditioning for basement rooms (three projects). Welding Engineering -- Replace roof. West Campus -- Modify service lines, transformers, and switchgears to accommodate increased demand for electricity. Wiseman Hall -- Renovate floor space used by Laboratory Animal Resources. LIMA Campus Drive -- Replace road surface, widen from one-lane to two-lane entrance to student parking lot. MANSFIELD Campus-wide -- Rebuild catch basins, drains, and underground pipes. Conard Art Gallery -- Install independent air conditioning to maintain proper temperature and humidity. Eisenhower Hall -- Provide new air conditioning system. MARION Campus-wide: =FE Provide signs complying with ADA. =FE Replace worn asphalt surfaces of roads and sidewalks; replace outside safety lighting fixtures. Morrill Hall -- Replace floor finishes in various rooms on the first three floors, paint walls, replace cove base. NEWARK Campus-wide -- Provide doors, restrooms, and ramps in Adena Hall, the Child Development Center, Founders Hall and Hopewell Hall to comply with ADA. Founders Hall -- Replace chiller. AGRICULTURAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, WOOSTER Campus-wide -- Install drainage tile and culverts and add limestone to selected farm roads. Learning Assistance Center -- Install new ceilings and lights, carpet, wall finishes, signs, and modular furnishings; upgrade electrical and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems. Skou Hall -- Replace roof, finish unfinished spaces in the building. OHIO AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER (OARDC), WOOSTER Campus-wide: =FE Upgrade heating, ventilating and air conditioning. =FE Replace roofs on Agricultural Engineering Building, Gerlaugh Hall and 10 other buildings. Dairy and Beef barns -- Replace concrete slats and fencing; improve ventilation. Fisher Auditorium -- Improve interior to comply with ADA. Gerlaugh Hall -- Improve accessibility and interior to comply with ADA. Gourley Hall -- Improve accessibility and interior to comply with ADA. Secrest Arboretum -- Stabilize stream bed and bank, add erosion control structures, repair and stabilize roads and paths, install diversions and culverts to control water runoff. Selby Hall -- Replace chiller. Swine Isolation Building -- renovate. OARDC, WOOD COUNTY Northwestern Branch -- Upgrade entrance and service drives, remove crib and storage building, replace buried fuel storage tanks with above-ground tanks. Contracts, Contingency Funds Approved Trustees approved contracts and contingency funds for projects on the Columbus, Newark, and Wooster campuses, (funded by the state unless noted otherwise) and for projects funded by University Hospitals: COLUMBUS The Center for Automotive Research -- The back of the building at 930 Kinnear Road was renovated for use by the center and to comply with building code and the ADA. Contractors were Gutknecht Construction of Columbus, J.A. Croson of Columbus, Columbus Heating and Ventilating, and MCS Electric of Groveport. Ohio State funded the $278,500 project. The Chadwick Arboretum -- George Igel of Columbus constructed a lake between Ohio 315 and Fyffe Road last summer. The Department of Physical Facilities funded the $262,600 project. Independence Hall -- Good Home Maintenance and Romanoff Electric of Columbus remodeled the lecture hall this year by adding new seat pads and upholstery, new carpet, and audio-visual equipment. Total cost was $278,200. Integrated Central Alarm Monitor -- Acree Daily of Columbus replaced and upgraded the fire alarm and monitoring system in September. Total cost was $510,600. Law Building -- P & H Roofing will replace most of the roof by January. Total project cost is $205,000. Pomerene Hall -- Olentangy Restoration of Marion received a contract to replace the roof. Total project cost is $380,000. Work is to be done in May 1995. Postle Hall -- Buckeye Asbestos of Cincinnati received a contract to abate asbestos in two mechanical rooms. Funding for the $146,300 project is being provided by the Board of Regents and the Department of Physical Facilities. Work is to be completed in January 1995. Radiation Dosimetry Calibration Facility -- The $370,000 building by the Nuclear Reactor Lab on West Campus was funded by the Ohio Emergency Management Association (OEMA) and Ohio State. OEMA annually calibrates more than 30,000 dosimeters which detect and measure radiation levels. Faculty and students in the Department of Nuclear Engineering have use of the facility to conduct research. Columbus contractors were Central Ohio Building, Radico, and C.R. Legner. Fetter Electric of Newark did electrical work. Scott Hall -- A cold room, smoke detection panel, smoke alarm system, and emergency power system were in the remodeling finished in September for the Byrd Polar Research Center. The Board of Regents funded the $400,000 project. The contractors were M & P Construction, Gahanna; Farber Corp., Columbus; and Royal Electric, Columbus. Sidewalk Safety Improvements -- Gutknecht Construction of Columbus received a contract to replace deteriorated concrete and asphalt sidewalks with concrete and pavers in the vicinities of Fyffe Road, Woody Hayes Drive, Ohio Union Drive, and College Road. Total project cost is $489,800. Work is to be completed by August 1995. Thompson Memorial Library -- Roof replacement is to be completed in January by South Texas and Lone Star Drywall of Columbus. Total project cost is $338,500. Watts Hall and Ohio Legal Center -- The roofs were replaced last summer by Enterprise Roofing of Dayton. Total project cost was $140,000. Wilce Student Health Center -- The chiller and cooling tower were replaced in August by Mariah Mechanical of Columbus and Fetter Electric of Newark. Total project cost was $147,080. NEWARK LeFevre Parking Lot -- Kokosing Construction of Fredericktown constructed a lot near LeFevre Hall. The state and the Newark campus funded the $293,500 project. OHIO AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER, WOOSTER Central Campus and Gourley Hall -- Madison Electric of West Salem will add electrical capacity to meet current codes. Work is to be done in March. Total cost is $198,000. Poultry Research Facility -- This $615,071 building project on Gossard Drive is to be finished in January by Ben D. Imhoff Inc. of Orrville; D and A Plumbing and Heating of North Canton; and Abbott Electric of Canton. Roads -- Northstar Asphalt of North Canton received a contract for repairing and resurfacing main roads, including Green and Gerlaugh Drives and Thorne and Williams roads. The $187,500 project is to be completed this month. Selby Hall -- Hicks Roofing of New Philadelphia replaced the roof this fall. Total cost was $100,200. Water System -- L.C. United of Sterling Heights, Mich., painted and updated the water tank. Total cost was $146,000. UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS Doan Hall -- Renovated space on the eighth floor will house EEG facilities and pulmonary function and bronchoscopy facilities. Contractors are Williamson Builders of Plain City; Mandeville/Croson of Columbus; Rodan Mechanical of Columbus; and Now Electric of Columbus. Total project cost is $858,000. Work is to be completed this month. Doan and Rhodes halls -- Work includes renovating diagnostic support services areas to expand the Radiology Film File Room, provide office functions for ultrasound, CT, and mammography, and consolidate diagnostic file reading functions. The first phase is to be completed in September 1995 and has a total cost of $605,880. Contracts were awarded to M & P Construction of Blacklick; Farber Corp. of Columbus; and Jess Howard Electric of Blacklick. The Ernest W. Johnson Park -- Wise Construction and D'Laurin Electric, both of Dayton, constructed the park last summer on Cannon Drive at West Ninth Ave. The park provides therapeutic recreation for patients of Dodd Hall. Total project cost was $177,495. McCampbell Hall -- Rooms 188 and 192 will be renovated to provide an exercise area, offices and examination rooms for the cardiac rehabilitation program now in Larkins Hall and to provide cosmetic renovation on the third floor of the Nisonger Center. The $205,650 project is to be completed in January. Contractors are Waller and Lund of Cincinnati; C.R. Legner of Columbus; and Reco Electric of Gahanna. Rhodes Hall -- Phinney Industrial Roofing of Dublin is to finish repairing and replacing the roof this month. Total project cost is $525,000. Rhodes Hall -- A corridor is being constructed from the second floor Radiology Department to new catheterization labs and between the labs. Contractors for the $515,141 project are Righter Co., Holdridge Mechanical, and Marco Plumbing & Heating, all of Columbus; and Fetter Electric of Newark, $69,450. Work is to be finished this month. =20 # Contact: Jill Morelli, University Architect, (614) 292-4458. Written by Tom Spring, (614) 292-8309; spring.1@osu.edu Note to reporters: Contract amounts and other information are available from the architect's office. 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