Revere City committee approves testing firm, contract amendments and invoices for school project

The Revere City School Building Committee approved a set of construction-related invoices and contract amendments Monday, selecting Briggs as the project's independent third‑party materials‑testing firm and authorizing additional work by environmental and geotechnical consultants to support upcoming site‑work bids.

The actions matter because the approvals move the project closer to awarding major site and foundation work, unlock reimbursements from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) once MSBA executes the project funding agreement, and shift limited contingency money to cover required preconstruction investigations of potentially contaminated soils.

The committee approved an invoice from Perkins Eastman for construction‑document and geotechnical work totaling $719,719.20 and an invoice for Consigli covering preconstruction services and a construction requisition totaling $619,747.81. The committee also approved a payment to Left Field (the city's owner's project manager) earlier in the meeting (amount not specified on the record).

Brian, the Left Field project representative, told the committee that geotechnical work completed to date did not reveal new, immediate issues but that some outstanding findings relate to two contract amendment requests on the agenda. "No new issues that we're gonna talk about a little later because it relates to 2 contract amendments that we have tonight," Brian said, adding that site work and ground improvements for the building are "extremely complex" and have required additional consultant work.

Brian said permitting milestones had advanced: the project has received the…