July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Insulation added to SA project (01/14/2009)
South Adams School Board
By By JACK RONALD-
BERNE - When it comes to insulation more is better, the South Adams School Board decided Tuesday.
Board members unanimously agreed to add spray foam insulation to walls of the new kindergarten through grade eight building even though it may be decades before there's a payback.
Steve Bloom of Performance Services, which is heading up the design/build project, told board members that because of the coming and going of students and requirements on fresh air circulation in public buildings there is a limit to energy savings that can be achieved from insulation.
The walls in the new building will have a rating of R-14 before the foam is added, but board members believe that over the life of the structure the additional insulation will make a difference.
"I think it's money well spent," board member John Mann said. The foam insulation will cost about $60,000, which will come from the project's contingency fund and not add to the total price tag.
"This building that we're putting up is going to be here 75 years, 100 years," said board member Myron Schwartz. "That insulation will come in really handy 10 years down the road."
Bloom agreed that this phase of the construction is the time to address the issue. "If we're going to do it, now would be the pertinent time," he said.
Work on the new school, which adjoins the current South Adams High School, is progressing smoothly. The roof is 70 percent complete, the sprinkler system is 90 percent complete, and casework has been arriving for installation.
"K-1 will be completed some time in March," superintendent Cathy Egolf said. Plans are being developed to transition into the new building for classes in the fall.
Among the issues are the razing of the old elementary and middle schools and the future of those properties. School officials also want to be sure that the new school's furniture needs are completely met before disposing of the current furnishings.
School officials estimate demolition of the two buildings and clean-up of the sites could cost more than $565,000. That does not include the cost of removal of a 3,000-gallon fuel tank beneath an alley at the site of the middle school in Geneva.
In other business, the board agreed to purchase two activity buses and a 78-passenger special needs bus for $180,862 through a state bus-purchasing program.[[In-content Ad]]
Board members unanimously agreed to add spray foam insulation to walls of the new kindergarten through grade eight building even though it may be decades before there's a payback.
Steve Bloom of Performance Services, which is heading up the design/build project, told board members that because of the coming and going of students and requirements on fresh air circulation in public buildings there is a limit to energy savings that can be achieved from insulation.
The walls in the new building will have a rating of R-14 before the foam is added, but board members believe that over the life of the structure the additional insulation will make a difference.
"I think it's money well spent," board member John Mann said. The foam insulation will cost about $60,000, which will come from the project's contingency fund and not add to the total price tag.
"This building that we're putting up is going to be here 75 years, 100 years," said board member Myron Schwartz. "That insulation will come in really handy 10 years down the road."
Bloom agreed that this phase of the construction is the time to address the issue. "If we're going to do it, now would be the pertinent time," he said.
Work on the new school, which adjoins the current South Adams High School, is progressing smoothly. The roof is 70 percent complete, the sprinkler system is 90 percent complete, and casework has been arriving for installation.
"K-1 will be completed some time in March," superintendent Cathy Egolf said. Plans are being developed to transition into the new building for classes in the fall.
Among the issues are the razing of the old elementary and middle schools and the future of those properties. School officials also want to be sure that the new school's furniture needs are completely met before disposing of the current furnishings.
School officials estimate demolition of the two buildings and clean-up of the sites could cost more than $565,000. That does not include the cost of removal of a 3,000-gallon fuel tank beneath an alley at the site of the middle school in Geneva.
In other business, the board agreed to purchase two activity buses and a 78-passenger special needs bus for $180,862 through a state bus-purchasing program.[[In-content Ad]]
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