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County administrator: Lake County sheriff’s office site moves to pier work; contingencies expected to decrease as project progresses
Summary
County Administrator Jason Boyd told commissioners that aggregate pier digging will begin the week after the meeting, allowing the county to reduce geotechnical unknowns and likely lower owner contingencies on the sheriff’s office construction project.
County Administrator Jason Boyd updated the Lake County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 20 that construction on the new Lake County Sheriff’s Office is moving into foundation work and the project team anticipates reducing contingency amounts as geotechnical unknowns are resolved.
“Beginning Monday, hopefully their equipment’s on-site, but they will start digging piers, aggregate piers for the foundation of the building,” County Administrator Jason Boyd said during the departmental report. He said the work is a significant step that will eliminate remaining geotechnical unknowns identified in prior soil borings and analysis.
Boyd said that the county conducted soil borings last year and that the pier work will provide clearer information about subsurface conditions. That clarity, he said, will allow the county to “take a hard look at our contingencies” and reduce the approximately $17 million to $18 million in owner contingencies currently budgeted for the project as the building goes “vertical.”
Boyd also said staff are working through increasingly detailed procurement and construction decisions; as an example he cited recent approvals on the specification for metal masonry door frames. “We’re getting into the fine details of the project and things are continuing to go according to plan and according to budget as we speak today,” Boyd said.
Why it matters: Moving from borings to foundation work reduces technical uncertainty that affects schedule, cost contingencies and contractor planning. The board’s oversight of these milestones will inform future budget adjustments and contract decisions.
The board did not take a formal vote on the construction update; it was provided as a departmental report.
