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Provo board hears updated Tempe High (construction) plans; district to issue notice to proceed on cafeteria work
Summary
Board members reviewed revised floor plans and cost estimates for the Tempe (new high school) project; hard bids reduced one estimate to about $13.4 million for cafeteria and boiler-room work and staff recommended a notice to proceed to make summer construction progress.
The Provo School Board reviewed updated architectural plans and bid information for the Tempe high-school construction project during its April 16 study session.
Devin Dailey, the district’s business administrator, told the board the low-side hard bids for the cafeteria and associated basement boiler-room work came in at about $13.4 million, roughly $1.5 million below an earlier engineer estimate. The total project remained over the original budget in some line items, Dailey said, but the district planned to use available fund balance and other allocations so the board would not need to request additional appropriation this spring.
Why it matters: the cafeteria and mechanical-room work requires significant structural and underground utility work that must be done over the summer before school resumes; moving ahead with the cafeteria demolition and steel work now would reduce construction conflicts once the full building renovation proceeds.
Dailey said the package included accessibility improvements — for example a new ADA access route to concessions and repairs at the auditorium stage — and that the construction team had reduced some program-area square footage to keep costs more in line with the comparable spaces at Provo High.
Board members reviewed the schematic floor plans, circulation and program adjacencies. Committee members said the architect reduced some shop and CTE footprints to align with program needs and to maintain parity between the two district high schools. Several board members pressed for more detail about specialized spaces including band storage and instrument staging; the construction committee said it would confirm the exact list of large instruments and consider temporary exterior storage options (for example a conex container) if full indoor storage proved costly.
Dailey said the immediate recommendation was to issue a notice to proceed on the cafeteria work so that heavy demolition, pier work and steel erection can occur during summer months when the building would be largely empty. He said the contractor’s goal is to complete the steel frame before classes resume so that later-phase work creates fewer operational conflicts.
The board’s construction committee, school administrators and the architect said they would continue to refine room sizes and finish details as subcontract bids come in; Dailey said the district will bring the full AIA (owner/architect/contractor) contract for board approval once final hard bids are received.
