Demolition and reconstruction of Ringing Rocks Elementary School,which was well under way last October, is now about 25 percent complete.
POTTSTOWN PA – Whether or not change is good, in the case of the reconstruction of the Pottsgrove School District‘s Ringing Rocks Elementary School, change – at least as measured by construction change orders – so far has been minimal.
Construction change orders are adjustments, up or down … but more often up, in the cost of a project. They’re usually requested when a contractor finds a problem that wasn’t anticipated by architects or engineers, but needs to be addressed or fixed.
The district, during its Board of School Directors’ meeting Tuesday (Jan. 11, 2011) at 7:30 p.m. in West Pottsgrove Elementary School, Grosstown Road, Pottstown PA, is expected to acknowledge that about 25 percent of the general contractor’s $6.5 million expansion and re-building work at the Ringing Rocks site on Kauffman Road in Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Towship is complete. To date, though, change orders costing less than one-half of one percent, or $28,373, have been requested.
It’s a small number; so far so good, many construction managers would say.
Directors will be asked Tuesday to approve a change order costing $11,525, according to the board meeting agenda the district released Friday afternoon (Jan. 7), but its purpose is not identified. The meeting is open to the public. The agenda should be available for download from the district’s website, here.
Directors also will be asked to approve payments to the contractors involved in the Ringing project for work they’ve finished to date. One of them, handling the building’s plumbing, so far have requested change orders that actually lowered the district’s cost by $2,478, the agenda shows.
January has been designated as “School Director Recognition Month” by the Pennsylvania School Boards Association. The district administration, in a note accompanying the agenda, offered its thanks to “our Board of School Directors for their countless hours of service to the Pottsgrove School District and the communities it serves.”
Related (to Ringing Rocks Elementary School renovations):
- Few Change Orders, So Far, At Ringing Rocks
- Rigs Arrive At Ringing Site To Drill Deep For Geo-Heat
- Exterior Demolition To Begin At Ringing Rocks
- Digging’s Done, Now Real Work Starts At Ringing
- Ringing Rocks Ground-Breaking Set For Thursday
- After Month’s Work, Pius Deemed Set For Ringing Pupils
- Ringing Rocks Bids Accepted, At $1.5 Million Less
- Final Words On Ringing Rocks: Okey-Dokey
- Ringing Rocks Gets Final Plan OK
- Borrowing Authorized For Ringing Rocks Project
- Pottsgrove Signs Pius Lease For Ringing Students
- Pottsgrove Authorizes Pius Lease For Ringing Relocation
- Call Goes Out For Ringing Rocks Construction Bids
- Board OKs Ringing Rocks’ Preliminary Plans
- School Vestibule Design OK; No Decision On Rocks’ Relocation
- Ringing Rocks Plan Approval Held Until May
- Ringing Relocation Decision Deferred Again
- Township Legal Move Saves District Time, Money
- Economic Tales, Exec Sessions, And Long Night At Pottsgrove
- Geothermal Now ‘Locked’ Into Ringing Re-Build
- How Estimated Costs For Ringing Shape Up
- Less Is More In School Project, Planners Learn
- Bids Sought For Ringing Project Asbestos Removal
- Ringing Relocation Decision Possible In Two Weeks
- Restaurant, Ringing Projects Win Conditional Uses
- Ringing Rocks, Restaurant Hearing Topics Tonight
- Pottsgrove Student Enrollment: Up? Yes. Down? Yes Again
- Green Discussion At Ringing Results In Red Faces
- Pottsgrove, Archdiocese Still Discussing Pius Lease
- Ringing Rocks Relocation Discussion Set For Tonight
- In The Ringing Rebuild, Whither Pius?
- Ringing Rocks Relocation Plan: Modulars At MS
- Ringing Rocks Construction Cost Hearing Tonight
- Planners OK Ringing Rocks Land Sketch
- District Sets Dec. 3 Hearing On Rocks Budget
- Pottsgrove Asks State Help To Pay For Ringing Re-Build
- As School Opens, Progress On Ringing Rocks’ Project
- Surprise Enrollment Spurs Demographic Interest
- District Assembles Ringing Rocks Planning Team
- District OKs Architect Negotiations
- Consensus On Ringing Renovations: $16M
- Ringing Rocks Proposals Aired Tuesday
- Ringing Rocks Re-Examined April 14
- Pottsgrove To Trust-But-Verify On Ringing Plans
- Ringing Rocks Plans Take Another Step
- No Shortage Of Ideas At Pottsgrove Meeting
- Weigh In On Pottsgrove Renovations
- Framing The Rocks Discussion
- Response Mixed To Pottsgrove Improvements
- District Invites Public For Study Results
- A Different Rocks, But Only As A Concept
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