Why do we need a new grade school?

[pepelect]

That is the beauty of the already designed and have a bid from the construction manager before we go to the public for the funding part of this scenario.   If it cost more the CM picks up the excess.   It is basicly a design build with a not to exceed cap.  The prelim is completed.  The guess work and budget issues are not the districts baby.  We just supply the funds and they construct. 


Vote Nov 3...


................A Yes will enable generations of our kids an equal playing field at college.

[flintauqua]

Steve,

Then you've never seen one built in Benton or Washington County, Arkansas.  Most of the recently built schools down here actually came in under-budget.  That's the nature of design-build, you have a very good estimate of the costs before you ask for the bond issue instead of being surprised when it goes out to bid.  Low-bids almost always lead to cost over-runs, because they scrimped in the original bid just to get it, then add in all the "over-runs" as change orders.

Patrick,

Costs down here have run in the $127 -145/sq. ft. range for schools built since 2003.  Fayetteville is getting ready for a bond election for a completely new high school campus, that has already been referred to as a Taj Mahal.  They are going design-build at around $161/sq. ft.  But of course this is for a 500,000+ sq. ft. multi-building campus to be built on same site as the old, with no interruption in classes.