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Show . : - . , T" L ' mL... JZ, . I OPEN BIDS Opening bids for Tech College buildings in Orem are Jay Croxford, Glen R. Swenson, Wilson W. Sorensen, Bruce Jensen, and LaVar Rockwood, I to r. Trade Tech Opens Oicls, Set Partial Move of Campus Fall of 1976 is the target date for moving classes in automotive trades and business instruction on to the new Orem campus of Utah Technical College at Provo, according to President Wilson W. Sorensen. His announcement came after four successful bid openings over the last several weeks on three buildings and a canal re-alignment the first phase of construction on the new campus which will ultimately house the entire college. President Sorensen pointed out that instruction in the several other departments of the college will continue on the Provo campus until sufficient suf-ficient funds can be obtained to construct the necessary buildings in Orem to house the entire institution. President Sorensen noted that all four of the first-phase low bids were well under architects' ar-chitects' estimates thus clearing the way for formal letting of the bids which is expected in the not too distant future. Low base bid for an automotive trades building was $2.3 million. Low base bid for the business building came at $2,007,000. The heating plant came in with a low base bid of $1.1 million. And a small but necessary project to re-align canals now on the Orem campus was bid low at $46,900. There will be some alternates added to these base bids, said President Sorensen, however, the four low base bids were under the acceptable architects' ar-chitects' estimates. This leaves the initial phase cost just below the $8 million appropriated by the 1972 legislature to start construction on the new campus, and this amount has been drawing interest in-terest since the 1972 allocation, interest which may be added to the fund under terms of the appropriation. The automotive trades and business buildings were given priority on the new campus, according to President Sorensen, because these two departments are now being housed either in off-campus rented quarters or temporary classroom trailers moved onto the overcrowded 13-acre campus. The heating plant was, of course necessary to go along with any initial construction. con-struction. Low base bidders on the projects were Culp Construction Con-struction Company of Salt Lake for the automotive trades building, Cannoti-Papauikolas of Salt Lake City for the business building, Max Gammon Construction Company Com-pany of Provo for the heating plant, and L. C. Nelson Construction Con-struction Company of Orem for the canal re-alignment. "Construction caji begin on some phases within 30 days," said President Sorensen, "with complepon slated by the summer of 1976. This means we can begin classes in the two departments automotive trades and business for the fall quarter of 1976." Complete removal of the college to the Orem campus will undoubtedly come in stages, said the president, as fast as sufficient appropriations ap-propriations can be obtained from the state legislature. Meanwhile, he said, while a split campus will entail inconvenience, in-convenience, it will be necessary to operate the Provo campus for remaining facilities until they are transferred. The Orem campus is located in the elbow of 1-15 and Orem's 12th South east of the freeway and north of 12th South. It consists of 185 acres purchased many years ago by the state in anticipation of meeting the growing needs of Utah Technical College at Provo, now boxed in on a 13-acre Provo (Continued on page5) Trade Tech (Continued from pagel) campus and bursting at the seams currently with its over 3,000 total day and evening school enrollment. President Sorensen also noted developments in a fourth building planned for the new campus a student activities center to be constructed with funds already saved up from students fees plus revenue bonds. The student center, the president pointed out, cannot be built from state funds, $500,000 is already in a fund jaised by students toward it, and revenue bonds will be issued for the rest, he said. The state House of Representatives has already authorized the issuance of revenue bonds for this purpose, and it is believed the Senate will also concur. The bonds would not involve any state funds, but would be issued and repaid from revenues of the building, including food and other services. The cost of the student center is estimated in the neighborhood of Sl.600.000. The student center will be a useful, necessary student and community service building. President Sorensen noted, providing tor cafeteria service and a bookstore in an area where they would not be otherwise available. |