RHS Building Project Committee: $493M project is on schedule

By Barbara Taormina

The Revere High School Building Project Committee met briefly late last month to review several invoices and contracts. The committee approved $1,155, 842 for three invoices presented by Brian Dakin, senior project manager.

The first was for $118,112 for Left Field for design development. The committee also approved a $943,792,000 invoice from Perkins Eastman for design development, including a site survey and traffic study. A third invoice from Consigli Construction for preconstruction services, including temporary fencing for the site, was also approved.

Dakin said $14.7 million of the total estimated $493 million budget had been spent and everything remains on budget and on schedule. The phase 1 demo work is expected to go out to bid next week.

Schools Superintendent Dr. Dianne Kelly said information on landscaping and other costs would be available on April 10. “We’ll have more to report next meeting,” she told the committee.

Committee member Susan Gravellese asked how the upcoming tariffs would affect the project’s budget. Dakin said that was an unknown and that all construction projects are waiting on the outcome of the tariffs, if any. He said that the project’s direct construction has a contingency account that covers one half percent on the total. “The sooner we get out to bid, the better,” he added.

Dakin also asked the committee to approve three contracts needed for the project. The first was for a security system with video cameras, video intercoms and intrusion detection for the construction site. “Security is pretty much a matter of course for a building of this size,” Dakin told the committee.

Another $121,990 contract with Perkins Eastman for a soil monitoring system was also approved as well as $24,383 for a fiber and data feed for the construction trailer complex. “That gets data to the site,” said Dakin.