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Riverland renovations to top $1.5 mil
Published Monday, October 26, 2009
AUSTIN — More than $1.5 million in renovations are under way at Riverland Community College — all contracted to local companies.
Sections of the West Building’s roof — 96,600 square feet — are being repaired and replaced for $900,000. The work is scheduled to be completed before Thanksgiving, according to general manager of Allweather Roof Ken Sorensen.
“This (contract) is a great boost for us,” Sorensen said.
Allweather Roof’s corporate office is in Minneapolis; the Austin office has its own operations, staff and crews.
“This is a such a large benefit to our company, and most importantly it is keeping our guys in Austin working,” he said.
“This is one of our biggest projects this year,” Sorensen added.
Riverland’s Austin campus also is spending $660,000 to replace the majority of its doors and windows in the East Building — some of which are original, circa 1960s and ’70s. This work began a few weeks ago and should be completed this winter, said Riverland’s vice president of finance and facilities Beth Fondell.
J.D. Driver Ltd. of Rose Creek was awarded the window and doors project.
The roofing project is funded by Higher Education Asset Preservation and Replacement funds, which are capital bonding appropriations, or money designated by the state to Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, earmarked for repair and replacement projects.
Riverland received $550,000 of HEAPR money for the windows and doors project, and had to chip in the rest — $110,000.
“In spite of that, it is most cost efficient to replace them now,” Fondell said.
“We will have very significant energy savings with the new windows and doors, so it is more than worthwhile,” she added.
Riverland is currently reviewing bids to remodel and update restrooms in the theater area of the west wing. Bids from all over the state came in Tuesday, Fondell said.
It is too early to tell whether that project will also go to a local company, since bids are just beginning to be reviewed.
“We hope to have made a selection and get things started in the next month or so,” Fondell said.
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Posted by SunMan (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 10:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Nice to see American workers are getting work doing projects that will cut our imports of foreign oil.
Saving energy will provide LONG TERM BENEFITS to America and our children.
This is one of those paradoxes way too over the head of President George W. Bush and his wingnuts in the Lunatic Fringe Party. It was Dark Lord DICK Cheney himself who said "energy conservation is not a basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy."
And anti-American ignorance such as that vastly increased our cost of energy, resulted in record consumption, record oil company profits, and made the air much dirtier too.
Saving oil DECREASES our imports of petroleum from countries we chose to make war with in order to protect supply of oil.
It's the patriotic thing to save and conserve this oil which has been paid for by our brave American fighting soldiers and it is VERY anti-American, VERY un-patriotic to drive a gas hog, a 4WD, an SUV and waste this oil we import from countries who are working for our economic demise and trying to kill our soldiers.
Patriotism is NOT about who waves their flag to gain the most attention, it's about our day-to-day actions which affect all Americans.
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