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1956] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 125
ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES FOR THE 1957-59 BUILDING PROGRAM
(19) Architectural work on the 1957-59 building program should be started at the
earliest possible date to allow time for efficient planning and insure completion of
construction within the biennial period.
The Director of the Physical Plant and the Vice-President and Comptroller
recommend award of contracts for architectural services as listed below on commissions
of 6 per cent of the cost of the construction for which professional
services are rendered. Such services shall include design and complete building
studies, working drawings, plans and specifications, and the supervision of construction,
except in the case of the Art and Architecture Building which Mr. Ambrose
Richardson is designing and for which design work credit will be required of
the firm employed to complete the planning, and with the exception of supervision
of the remodeling in the Research and Educational Hospitals and in the
Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building will be furnished by the University. If
models are required, additional payments will be made on terms mutually
agreed upon in advance.
The University will reserve the right to terminate contracts and any of the
work covered at any time, provided that:
1. In the event of termination on or before completion of building studies, compensation
will be computed on the basis of cost of work done plus 100 per cent
for overhead and commission, and provided further that such costs shall not
exceed the fixed amounts hereinafter specified. The "cost" shall include salaries
paid to professional employees and/or partners actually working on the project.
Records will be maintained by the architects on all "costs" and shall be subject
to audit by the University.
2. In the event architectural work is terminated after working drawings have been
authorized but before completion, the architects will be paid a fixed sum within
the limits herein specified plus a further payment computed on salaries paid
professional employees plus 100 per cent for the work done after completion of
building studies accepted by the University.
The University will not be committed to making any payments prior to
August 1, 1957, to the architects for work done under these contracts in excess of
the fixed amounts stated as follows:
1. Library Addition (seventh addition), Urbana-Champaign — Graham,
Anderson, Probst, and White, Chicago $ 10 000
2. Art and Architecture, Urbana-Champaign — Mittelbusher and Tourtelot,
Chicago (completion of building studies by Mr. Ambrose
Richardson) 20 000
3. Research and Educational Hospitals remodeling and other remodeling,
including minor additions, Chicago:
Dentistry-Medicine-Pharmacy Building—Pace Associates, Chicago... 6000
Hospitals— Fugard, Burt, Wilkinson, and Orth, Chicago 25 000
4. Research Laboratory, Chicago Professional Colleges — Skidmore,
Owings, and Merrill, Chicago 20 000
5. Physics Building, Urbana-Champaign—Shaw, Metz, and Dolio,
Chicago 4° 000
6. Laundry Building, Chicago Professional Colleges — Schmidt, Garden,
and Erikson, Chicago 9 000
7. Family housing, Urbana-Champaign — Lundeen and Hilfinger,
Bloomington 20 000
Total $150 000
Funds for the Laundry Building studies are available in the accumulated
reserves from operations of the present laundry. In addition to the amounts required
for the services specified above, $10,000 is needed to cover miscellaneous
costs, such as travel for inspection of similar projects elsewhere, and $5,000 is
needed to revise existing plans for the addition to the book storage wings of the
Library, this being the sixth addition to the building.
I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board
be authorized to execute contracts, subject to the conditions stated above, and that
a nonrecurring appropriation of $156,000 be made from the General Reserve for
these services.