HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-11-15PBC-min.pdf TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
PERMANENT BUILDING COMMITTEE
Minutes of Wednesday November 15 7000 meeting in the Conference Room, School
Administration Building, as approved January 3, 2001.
The meeting was called to order at 7:08 p.m. by Chairman Kelley with other PBC members
Cannalonga, Himmel, Johnson, Kennedy, Poinelli and Touart present. Also attending were
Director of School Building Operation John Moynihan, School Committee members Robin
DiGiammarino and Michelle Hutnick, as well as representatives of two of the four architectural
firms who submitted qualifications to become the designers of two new elementary schools at the
Fiske and Harrington school sites.
HMFH Architects was represented by Principal John Miller, Principal and Project Director
George Metzger, Pip Lewis Senior Associate and Project Manager, Randy Sorensen Landscape
Architect, Engineers from RDK (R.D Kimball) Chris Cummings,Warren Cochrane and John
Mummery Miller opened with a history of HMFH's work in Lexington, starting with an
education program space study in 1993 for which they were the educational program consultants.
His firm is are the architect for the current middle and high school projects.
George Metzger continued with a slide show of some other nearby HMFH projects. He reviewed
the Harrington and Fiske sites, noting that his firm would recommend a three-story new building
for better fit on the small site. Engineer Cummings talked about his firm's emphasis on air
quality The Lee School in Boston is using a new system that will avoid unit ventilators.
Dorthea Hayes and Deborah Collins will be part of the Lexington elementary school design
team.
Discussion centered around Eastern Contractors' schedules of values and their CPM. Mary
Lee Touart complimented HMFH on the use of the kiosk at the Agassiz School in Cambridge.
Miller offered tours of many nearby HMFH completed projects.
TLCR Associates. Inc Principal in Charge Todd Lee was primary presenter for his 15-person
firm. In addition Santiago Rozas, Patrick Mulvey Welsh, Carol Marsh and Nelson Hammer of
TLCR contributed to the presentation, as well as Principal Sheikh A. Rahman of SAR
Engineering. TLCR presented a booklet that contained an organization chart, site analyses of the
Fiske and Harrington Schools (with prevailing wind directions, prominent compass points and
salient features affecting the site) as well as conceptual plans for possible new school siting,
proposed schedule, work plan hours, budget summary and estimated vs. actual bid amounts for
the firm's projects over the past ten years, and, finally, a recent complementary letter from the
Boston Department of Neighborhood Development.
TLCR is ready to go, according to Lee. After TLCR personnel left, Moynihan noted they were
the only firm that showed particular interest in the project, asked many question and visited the
sites. In addition, they expressed concern over the stress caused by elimination of heavily used
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athletic fields, suggesting that perhaps temporary fields could be placed on the Met State
Hospital site.
Clarke Middle School staff expressed concern over number of classroom doors in two chemistry
labs. The committee took no action and requested further information about how many science
classrooms have only one door. It is thought that a single door is code compliant.
Meeting adjourned at 10:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Erna S. Greene
Secretary