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Featured ProjectJ-40 – Health and Wellness Building
Project Description: The HW Building will house the academic department of Physical Education and a 7200 seats arena with facilities for the Athletic Department. The main purpose of this facility will be for instructional use, however it will also support other activities such as freshman convocation, graduation, athletic events, trade shows/conventions, concerts and camps. The proposed facility is approximately 123,000 square feet and will seat up to approximately 7200 for end stage events. Since this facility will host a wide variety of activities, the lobby/prefunction area will serve as a central access point to allow access into the various activities during different parts of the day. Sound attenuation between the instructional spaces and activity space is very important. Current Update: As of June 2nd, 2007, the University has submitted and received approval from the Vice Chancellor for Facilities for a new SCL of $ 23,066,105. This number reflects all cost management options investigated and approved by the University, reduction of the owner’s contingency to increase the SCL and the approval of floor plan layout scheme K. The team will now concentrate in working the schedule for a building completion of January 2009 and completion of documents to obtain final pricing and signing of the Guaranteed Maximum Pricing contract by fall 2006. Construction will ideally start late summer 2007.
Design and Management Method: The design phase of the project follows a model using a Project Advocate to be the liason between the different users and the design team. The construction of the project will follow a model using a Program Manager to manage all aspects of the project and a CM at risk with a Guaranteed Maximum Price, rather than hard bid, to build the project The design and management of the project will follow the model first implemented with the Geosciences project. A Project Advocate has been selected to provide first line of contact between all the departments involved and the design team. This advocate is a member of the academic community, rather than a technical person. All issues needing resolution are worked out internally by the Project Advocate and the departments involved, then the resolution is transmitted to the architect. Additionally, a Core Executive committee composed by Vice Presidents and Deans provides executive oversight for the project. Executive briefings are scheduled at the end of every site visit and workshop conducted by the architects. The intent of this model is to allow complete involvement and participation at all levels of the University, to allow ownership of the project by the users, and to provide clear lines of communication between the users and the design team. The construction of the project will be implemented following a model that includes a Program Manager and a CM at risk. The Board of Regents will be the owner, the University will be the user and the GSFIC will have minimum involvement in the process. Project History: A series of work sessions took place to verify the organization, operation, and function of the proposed spaces of the HWLLC. Interviews were conducted with representatives from involved departments. The Programming Cards were a result of these interviews. Spaces and square footages were confirmed and adjusted according to the needs of the various groups. The Space Program was developed as a result of these work sessions and the Programming Cards. Some areas were additionally adjusted to allow the project to fit into the allocated budget. Total Project Cost is $27,784,000.00.(Revised to $29,451,040) The Construction Cost (Stated Cost Limitation) is $21,451,000.00.(Revised to 22,790,000) The A/E (fixed) Fee is $1,290,000.00. In May 2003, the Office of Facilities, Board of Regents, provided Rosser International, Inc. with a professional services contract for $99,090.00 to begin the development of design documents. Rosser expects to begin initial design work in September, 2003. UWG has requested an allottment registry from Adamson Hall, Project I-62B in the amount of $388,871.96 to augment Rosser International's contract. Amount approved and added to Rosser's Contract. On January 14 and 15, a design kick off meeting and Program Validation work sessions took place. All departments and entities involved in the project mett with the architects to review and confirm their needs. As a result of these meetings, the Nursing department and HPE modified their program. Nursing functions will also accomodate the Center for Caring and an outpatient clinic. HPE eliminated the racquet ball courts and included two additional labs. All of these revisions to the program were accomplished within the approved square feet. As of February 9,2004, a design session to discuss adjacencies and massing took place February 3 and 4. The architects reviewed the modified program and validated the modifications against the budget. The sessions involved extensive discussions with HPE and Athletics concerning the layouts of the courts to allow teaching and game practices simultaneously. At the end of the sessions, both departments were satisfied with the architects preliminary design. Several general issues need to be studied for resolution. 1 The location of the building will impact the design and location of the adjacent north/south road proposed in the master plan, because of constraints imposed by possible wet land issues in the east side. 2 Noise level at the courts need to be considered when selecting separation means between courts. 3 The University needs to provide guidance concerning CATV availibility for every space in the Building. 4 Because of questions concerning availability of sponsors, the building will include a basic kind of scoreboard. The University needs to develop a marketing/solicitation plan to fund a more sophisticated score board.
Design work shops are scheduled for February 24,26,27. The architectural team expects to develop, on site, the floor plans and basic elevations, working with the University users, in a charrette style work shop. Design Workshops are scheduled for February 25, 26, 27. Agendas have been prepared and distributed. At the end of the sessions, it is the Architect's intent to have three possible layouts for the building for all parties to select the preferred scheme and building massing. The workshops of February 25,26,27 resulted on three schemes mainly for massing and site location. A preferred scheme was identified by the University and the architectural team will develop this scheme and come back for a presentation to the users and the core committee. It is anticipated that this sessions will take place in early April. A meeting has been scheduled for April 15 in the afternoon. The architects will present the preferred solution including hard line floor plans and massing for the building. As of this date, it appears that the funding for the building will not be approved this legislative session. The project will stay in the list of projects to be funded for the 2005 session. A meeting was held on campus on June 9th,2004. The architects presented revised schematic plans, massing and elevations for the building. Detailed comments were requested from the users for both the final draft of the program and the revised schematics. The users are working with the Project Advocate to finalize their comments and transmit them to the architects. It is anticipated that a working meeting will be scheduled on campus early July. A meeting was held July 12 at UWG, with the BOR Office of Facilities, the campus administration and the architects. The architects presented the design and some discussions were held concerning constructibility issues for HVAC equipment (if located on roof) and avoidance of retaining walls. A meeting was held on campus on June 29th,2004 with the Nursing department to finalize the floor plan layout for the department. Agreement was reached for the optimal layout that will serve nursing and that will work with the building design. Similar meetings will be scheduled with the PE and the Athletic Departments. Meetings were held with the Physical Education and Athletic Departments to review plan layouts for their respective spaces. The layout was acceptable to PE and for Athletics, except for the training room, it was also acceptable.
The training room issues will be resolved with the design team. The Board of Regents office has scheduled a meeting
with the Office of Planning and Budget to review status The program documents for the building have been
approved and were submitted by the University to the Schematic Design documents are in the process of being
reviewed in preparation for submittal to the Board of A presentation to the Office of Planning and Budget
took place August 17,2004. The project was presented as Schematic Design documents are in the process of being
reviewed in preparation for submittal to the Board of As of
September 13, Schematic Design documents are in the process of being reviewed
in preparation for Preliminary Drawings and Specifications are also in
process of review by the University. The preliminary As of October 11, the Schematic Design documents have
been approved and submitted to the Board of Preliminary
Design documents have been received and reviewed by the institution with the
exception of the As of
November 1st, 2004, Preliminary Design Submittal has been received. The
booklets will be signed by all The
architect has scheduled meetings for November 9 with sound consultants and
AVand IT consultants to A
meeting has been scheduled with all users and Core Committee on January 13,
2005. The architects will On January 26 a meeting was held to review IT plans.
All questions appear to be answered. At the meeting the The
University is preparing a list of possible acquisitions of FF&E items that
could be purchased by end of fiscal The
University continues to work on purchasing strategies to supplement equipment
and furnishings budget. The
approved deductive alternates list is in process of been revised. The reduction
of lenght for the pool has The architect has advised that a new 100% set of
drawings will be issued for review the week of March 28. A meeting will be scheduled with the architects to
resolve pending issues such as the lighting of classrooms for A
meeting has been scheduled with the architects to discuss implications of this
delayed funding. Also, status of The
deductive alternates list has been revised following the direction provided by
Dr Hynes and Mr Bill Gauthier The Av
and Data drawings are been revised, following a meeting held at the University,
May 2. The engineers 14. Once these drawings are throughly reviewed by the University for compliance and providing that they do not need further revisions, final contract document sets will be forwarded by the Architectural team to the University for final approval and forwarding to the Board of Regents. As of May 26, 2005 completed drawings for Data, Telephone and AV have been submitted to the University for final review. Comments are due to architect the first week of June. The architectural team is proceeding with submission of the drawings for Fire Marshal and Peer review. Once the reviews are completed, the approved submittals will be sent to the Board of Regents. The completed drawings will be approved and signed by the users committee and the University administration. As of
June 9, UWG and Rosser are working on the preparation of the final submittal of
the documents to the As of
July 27 no change on status. Architect
to advise the University as to a date that final sets of drawings will be
submitted to the University for 1 Data and AV 2 Security/Hardware/Fire Alarm 3 Hardware 4 Lighting controls
These meetings will be the final attempt by the project team to insure that everything is covered by the documents to avoid costly Change Orders during construction. As of March 20, 2006 it appears that the project will be funded on the 2006 supplemental budget. The University, the Board of Regents and the architects will have to investigate options concerning the building as presently designed since it appears that the funds approved will not be sufficient to cover the present design. As of April 10, 2006, the project is included in the supplemental 2006 budget. This budget is awaiting the governor's signature. Design for this project will have to be modified to meet the approved budget. As of August 24, 2006, RFQ for Program Management Services have been received and short listing is proceeding. Interviews for the short listed firms have been scheduled for September 6. Selection will be based on qualifications and the best fit for the project rather than fee. As of September 12, 2006, interviews were held at the Office of Facilities for the Board of Regents with four short listed firms. The committee has submitted a recommendation for the most qualified firm, determined thru the interview, to be engaged. This recommendation must be internally processed and approved by the Office of Facilities. Once approval is obtained and firm is notified, the BOR will negotiate fees. As of November 2006, Carter has been chosen as the program Manager and Skanska has been chosen as the Construction Manager for the project. The office of Facilities is negotiating fees and contracts with both firms. As of November 2006, Carter has made a preliminary presentation to the University outlining opportunities for bringing the project within budget. Due to the delayed funding and rising construction costs, it appears that the budget can not support 169, 000 square feet . Per Carter in order to met the budget, the building square footage must be reduced to 120,000 SF. As of January 2007, Carter presented alternative ways to bring the project within budget. UWG has agreed to remove Nursing, Continuing Education and the pool from the building in order to achieve an square footage figure of 120,000 as recommended by the Program Manager. The architects will now prepare a Schematic package for pricing by the CM. Pricing should be available by March 1st, 2007. A meeting will be scheduled with the Office of Facilities to review the programmatic changes of the building and the reconciliation with the Stated Cost Limitation. As of March 2nd, 2007, BOR has approved programmatic changes and a preliminary cost model has been received from Skanska. The estimate appears to be 7 m8illions over the SCL. The project team will work towards studying cost management alternatives and solutions to bring the project within budget. As of April 30, 2007 the project team has incorporated all cost management alternatives in the project and is ready to present preliminary recommendations from the University to the project manager at the Office of Facilities. The University has agreed on the design layout and in requesting the use of contingency funds to raise the SCL to a slightly higher number.
Funding Source: Major Capital Budget: $30,449,867 Project Manager: Elsa Pena Architect/Consultant: Rosser International, Inc. Contractor: Skanska. Program Manager: Carter. Project Approval Date: June 9, 1999 Estimated Completion Date: January 2009
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