{"id":7573,"date":"2011-05-07T02:50:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T07:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=7573"},"modified":"2011-05-07T02:51:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T07:51:09","slug":"7573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/05\/07\/7573\/","title":{"rendered":"VW elementary project contract awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As expected, the Van Wert City Board of Education the final construction contract for the new grades 1-5 elementary school project during a special meeting held Friday morning at the S.F. Goedde Building.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1968\" style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1968  \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/New-VW-elementary-building-drawing-1-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist&#039;s conception of the new grades 1-5 elementary school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The board approved a contract with Findlay-based Charles Construction Services Inc. for the general trades portion of the project. The general trades contract is the largest portion of the project, at $11,076,000.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the board approved the other four bid packages for the project &#8212; plumbing, electrical\/technology cabling, heating-air conditioning-ventilation (HVAC), and fire suppression, three of which came in significantly under engineering estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The general trades portion had to be rebid, though, because the original bids, which ranged from $12.5 to more than $14 million, resulted in the project being more than 10 percent over engineering estimates. The Ohio School Facilities Commission requires that bids cannot be more than 10 percent higher than engineering estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Work on the project could start soon, school officials say, with completion of the project still set for August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The elementary project approved by the OSFC also includes demolishing Franklin and Washington elementary schools, as well as renovations at Jefferson Elementary School to make it a pre-kindergarten\/kindergarten facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent As expected, the Van Wert City Board of Education the final construction contract for the new grades 1-5 elementary school project during a special meeting held Friday morning at the S.F. Goedde Building. The board approved a contract with Findlay-based Charles Construction Services Inc. for the general trades portion of the project. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 22:46:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}