Town officials provided updates on the two pending school campus construction projects at the State of the Town meeting on October 20, outlining a series of cuts made to bring the school project under budget and a timeline for the community center. The detailed construction cost estimate presented to the School Building Committee in September…
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School group to tackle final project cost cuts this week
The School Building Committee plans to finish trimming the school project to get it under budget this week as it also awaits final information about potential savings on things like temporary classrooms and site work. The current estimate for construction is $84.98 million, but the construction portion of the budget approved by residents in June…
School officials begin cutting items from school project
The School Building Committee on Wednesday started the process of changing and removing elements of the school project to meet a voter-mandated budget, making a handful of adjustments from a list provided by SMMA Architects that totaled just over $1.4 million. But the group has more work to do to reach the target total reduction…
Latest cost estimates for school project are well over budget
Town officials were chagrined Wednesday night to learn that preliminary cost estimates for the Lincoln School project are substantially higher than the $93.9 million budget approved by residents at a Special Town Meeting in June. At its meeting Wednesday evening, the School Building Committee (SBC) and others heard the two independent estimates for the project—one…
Architects show latest school plans
Residents at two workshops on Wednesday saw the latest drawings of the Lincoln School project showing what SMMA principal architect architect Alex Pitkin called “reinvention of the heart of the building” as well as campus circulation and construction phasing. The middle of the refurbished building includes a central office area and entrance with an “airlock”…
School Building Committee workshops on Wednesday
The School Building Committee will hold a pair of identical community workshops on Wednesday, Sept. 5 from 8–10 a.m. and 7–9 p.m. in Reed Gym to recap its work over the summer since the Special Town Meeting vote on June 9. Topics will include: Floor plans – Where are the grades located? How are the hubs…
Schedules proposed for school, community center projects
School and community center planners have proposed schedules for further community input and eventual start dates for their respective projects. Daedalus Projects Inc., the owner’s project manager for the school project, presented a schedule to the School Building Committee earlier this month calling for three community forums from August to October as well as six…
School option L3 wins the day
After almost a year of meetings, community forums, architectural work, and spirited debate, Lincoln residents voted to move forward with school concept L3 at a Special Town Meeting on June 9. Consulting architects SMMA will now produce a schematic design with detailed specifications and an updated cost estimate. The current estimate for Option L3 is…
Letter to the editor: Mostue supports option L3
To the editor: First, I applaud all the individuals who have worked so hard on the most difficult Lincoln issue I have witnessed in my 26 years in town. Thank you. In almost every project during my 40 years of architectural practice, I have had to help clients make the best possible decisions in allocating…
Letter to the editor: a brief history of the school project
To the editor: We are approaching a critical vote on the future of Lincoln’s school facilities. There is a long history of the various deliberations that have gone before. It is often difficult for people to become fully informed of what has gone before. As someone who has been involved for a very long time,…