The replacement of playgrounds in the public school district of Montclair in the schools of Bradford and Glenfield and improvements in the Aubrey Lewis Sports Complex are part of this week.
The improvements are part of a six -year plan of $ 187.7 million for 25 construction projects that approved voters for 2022. Contracts have almost concluded the last of the District Wide Playground updates, said Conor O'Brien, Project Executive at Legacy Construction Management. O'Brien discussed work on the Nishuane School.
“Many of the playground equipment are installed in the main playground,” said O'Brien. “The one that is closest to the field still needs to be installed.”
“Significant delays”
He said his company had to urge the contractor to get closer to the execution of all other projects. Said O'Brien, “considerable delays”, and the district required changes to a playground project on the Bullock School.
“We then decided not to allow them to make all playgrounds offline because we did the work,” he said.
The board member Eric Scherzer, who refers to a discussion in the committee, stated that many projects are affected by increasing the costs and construction delays.
“For all of us, it is becoming increasingly clear about increasing prices, inflation, tariffs and all sorts of things,” said Scherzer. “In addition, the lead times in these things and how the schedule slowly slipped. We have delayed things.”
Woodman Field
According to O'Brien, improvements to Woodman Field, including a route in the Aubrey Lewis Sports Complex, are largely complete.
“We have warranty articles that we work because of the weather,” he said. “If it warms up, we can end some of them.”
These objects include tree plantings and concrete repair work, said O'Brien. Last week, he said, they addressed themselves with “combustion signs of fireworks”.
The district Field also works on Woodman Field in August for a “considerable completion” of a grandstand and grandstands, said O'Brien. However, “significant conclusion” does not mean that the amenities can be used, he said and answered the question of a board member.
“In order for it to be used, the architects and engineers have to have it checked,” said O'Brien. “To ensure that it is certain to use the security certificates.”
According to an update on the website of the district, the district has concluded a contract of 2.12 million US dollars for the exchange of the high school stands and the installation of a press box. According to the district, the employees started demolishing the existing grandstands.
Roof replacement
O'Brien described a roof replacement in the Hillside School.
“Coping was one of the last things that were accompanied by this project,” said O'Brien, referring to a cap that covered the vertical wall around the roof. “They could only work on weekends.”
At the Bradford School, a problem was a problem to get the roof material. However, the workers have completed the demolition.
“It was waterproof most of the time that we have removed it around Thanksgiving,” said O'Brien. “If there were problems, the contractor came in and spoke to them.”
At the Northeast School, he said, the roof project was “essentially complete”. On the Glenfield School, O'Brien, another contractor added the roof project “essentially off”.
Edgemont, high school
At the Edgemont School, he said, an contractor obtained the replacement of a staircase replacement.
For the high school, said O'Brien, the district in the middle of this spring will offer a HLK project. HLK replacement at the High School, the Buzz Aldrin School and the Glenfield School will take several years, said O'Brien.
He said that the district had awarded a project for a high school on the Hillside School and plan to start building this project in June. The district also assigned an order to build the Glenfield School Media Center.
“We are pushing for the beginning of the school year, but the schedule for this goes a little into the school year, but we urge the contractor to conclude it,” said O'Brien.
Hillside gym
On Monday, the school authority approved the award of a contract of $ 4.278 million to Billy Contracting & Restoration for the Hillside School Auditorium.
O'Brien said that the district rejected a first offer for work on the Buzz Aldrin School because the costs were too high. His company heads for the work and hopes to train the project in early April, he said.
Scherzer asked O'Brien how to accelerate the work.
“I will not ask you to talk about it tonight,” said Scherzer. “But I hope that at the next meeting of the committee you can be ready to talk about it.”
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