Board of Regents Policy: Physical Plant - Section 1003.7

 

This authority request is for an amount greater than $150,000, which requires the following additional information:

(a) Project Description:

This project will renovate a portion of Cooley Lab into properly constructed, fire-separated space for laboratory equipment (including all electrical and HVAC work), which will address existing building code, fire code, and life-safety hazards. This project is also intended to provide supplemental ventilation for an existing lab space in the basement; fluid-cooling air-conditioning capacity to accommodate existing heat-source loads for all four floors on the south side of the building; and, digital controls for the new lab equipment room.

(b) Cost Estimate and Funding Sources:

1.   Estimated Cost

2.   Design $ 30,000

3.   Construction $ 210,000

4.   Contingency $ 35,000

5.   Funding Source: This project will be financed with research indirect cost recovery funds from federal grants.

(c) Programs served, enrollment data, projected enrollments:

Cooley Lab, constructed in 1960, contains 19,190 net assignable square feet of research labs and support spaces and is occupied by research elements of the Biology and Micro-Biology Departments. This project will not impact enrollments in either department nor the number of research personnel located in the building.

(d) Space Utilization Data:

The existing space to be renovated is unfinished, unoccupied storage space. The renovated space will allow existing lab equipment to be removed from building corridors, and will provide for continued common use of this equipment among the various researchers in the building.

(e) Projected use for available residual space:

Residual space will be in the form of appropriate, unobstructed exit corridor widths, that should then satisfy the Fire Marshall relative to building and fire codes. No occupiable residual space will be recovered.

(f) Projected O&M Costs and proposed funding sources:

The increased level of mechanical and electrical services that will be installed to serve the renovated space will result in a marginal increase in the O&M costs for Cooley Lab. This increased O&M responsibility will be funded with indirect cost recovery funds from research grants. The increased O&M responsibility is currently projected to be $13,000 per year, which includes maintenance of the new mechanical systems and increased utility consumption, but excludes future capital replacement costs at the end of the equipments life cycle.