university of illinois - UIHistories Project

532 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [July 16
$22,500 for studies, plus drafting room salaries, plus 100 per cent for the work
done thereafter, also
No payments above the $22,500 are to be made prior to August I, 1957.
Housing Building at Robert Allerton Park—Smith, Kratz, and Associates, Urbana
This will be a low cost twelve-unit motel type of one-story lodging building
adjacent to Allerton House, and so located that an additional unit may be
added at a later date.
The firm of Smith, Kratz, and Associates has designed many projects in
collegiate Gothic, Classical, and Georgian styles. They propose to employ
engineering consultants for such incidental mechanical services as may be
necessary. This firm has proposed a standard fee of 6 per cent of construction
costs for complete services, with the understanding that the firm will be
reimbursed for all travel expenses and will not provide a clerk-of-the-works
type of superintendence, only periodic visits to the project as may be necessary.
The estimated cost of this project is $40,000.
Architectural Consultant and Designer — Ambrose M. Richardson of Ambrose M.
Richardson and Associates
The University had a contract with this firm during the year 1956-57 for the
following services:
a. Building studies on a women's residence hall with a capacity of approximately
1,000.
b. Building studies on the first unit of a new Fine Arts Center.
c. Campus plan studies at Urbana-Champaign.
d. Completion of services on the men's residence halls project to be constructed
on the Parade Ground area.
e. Consultative services on the building design of the Plant Sciences Building,
family housing project, Central Food Stores Building, Mini Union Addition.
In addition, Mr. Richardson has constributed substantially to the design
of the Physics Building, the Residence Hall for Unmarried Graduate Men,
and the Digital Computer Laboratory.
The services of his firm have been highly satisfactory, and it is proposed that
the firm be employed for another year beginning August 1, 1957, for the
following services:
a. Building studies for men's residence halls with a capacity approximately
1,000 (Residence Halls for Single Undergraduate Men, Stage 4, scheduled
for completion in 1960-62).
b. Building studies on a women's residence hall with a capacity approximating
750 (Residence Halls for Single Undergraduate Women, Stage 3, scheduled
for completion in 1961).
c. Continuing services on projects on which Mr. Richardson has already presented
building designs (Fine Arts Center, Men's Residence Halls, Stages
2 and 3, and Women's Residence Halls, Stage 2).
d. Continuation of campus plan studies at Urbana-Champaign.
e. Consultative services on the design of projects on which plans and specifications
will be prepared by other architects.
Compensation for these services will be as follows:
a. Men's Residence Halls — $21,000 — to be advanced from funds available to
the Housing Division and ultimately reimbursed from borrowed funds on
construction.
b. Women's Residence Hall — $13,000 — to be advanced from funds available
to the Housing Division and ultimately reimbursed from borrowed funds
on construction.
c. Continuing services on housing projects and Fine Arts Center — $1,500 —
to be charged against the funds available for construction.
d. Campus plan studies and consultative services — $13,000 — to be financed
from a nonrecurring appropriation.
I concur.
On motion of Mr. Johnston, the foregoing recommendations were
approved, and the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board were
authorized to execute the necessary contracts.