Committee hears acoustics report and approves multiple change orders, invoices and payments for Latimer Lane project

The Public Building Committee received construction and acoustical test updates on the Latimer Lane project, approved a series of change orders and invoices, and discussed recent state statutory changes that may affect committee membership for school projects.

Arcadis staff reported construction is continuing in small portions and that project drawings and submittals are largely complete. "As far as the budget goes, we've expended 95.2% of the overall budget and 98.8% of the owner's contingency," an Arcadis representative said, while noting construction progress was "basically almost filled out at 99.1%."

Justin Hopkins, with Tekton Architects, presented acoustic testing results delivered by Kavanagh Tachi. Hopkins said target classroom reverberation times (RT) for smaller classrooms were 0.6 seconds and 0.7 seconds for larger rooms, and "for most of the tests, we are at our target number, 0.6 to 0.7." He identified a single unfurnished room with an RT of 0.8 and said that "once we outfit…