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Architect: asbestos under junior-high gym, $1.2M abatement among major items in 10-year safety survey
Summary
BLD Architects presented the district's 10-year Health Life Safety survey, identifying asbestos-containing mastic beneath the junior-high gym floor that would require full abatement (estimated roughly $1.2 million) and other facility needs including masonry, missing fire devices and potential HVAC replacements. The board will approve the report and pursue state HLS funding.
Kim Kirknock, an architect associate with BLD Architects, told the Effingham CUSD 40 school board that the district's 10-year Health Life Safety (HLS) survey identified a range of code and maintenance issues across six sites and flagged several items that may be eligible for state HLS funding.
"Every 10 years, schools in Illinois require to develop the safety survey report," Kirknock said, walking the board through the survey's three parts: existing conditions, updated plans and findings. The firm classified issues by urgency and listed code-required ("required") and recommended items for the district to address.
Among the largest costs, Kirknock said the gymnasium at one school contains asbestos-containing mastic beneath the wood floor and that abatement and related work…
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