More construction costs OK’d
By Erin Gibson
Senior Reporter
The University of Nebraska
Board of Regents and NU
President Dennis Smith said Friday
they were disgusted with the price
tag of a new building at the
University of Nebraska Medical
Center in Omaha, and then unani
mously approved spending $11.5
million to finish its construction.
“I’m sick and tired of it,” Smith
said of the new Lied Transplant
Center. “Let’s get it done. Let’s
make it functional.”
In November 1995, the univer
sity first signed a $42 million con
tract to build the 12-story center.
With Friday’s budget increase, the
university will pay Penn-Co
Construction, Inc. $61.3 million
for the center.
University Hospital reserve
funds will pay for the project’s bud
get increase.
Regent Don Blank of McCook
said the first building contract did
n’t include finishing the building’s
top three floors, but Friday’s budget
increase will pay Penn-Co to com
plete all unfinished space in the
structure.
Regents knew there would be
additional construction costs to
cover finishing the floors when
they approved the original building
contract in 1995, Blank said.
Smith said Friday he wanted to
finish all unfinished floors now
because the construction contrac
tor was still working on the build
ing
But regents wouldn’t have
approved the project in 1995 with
today’s price tag, Regent Chuck
Wilson of Lincoln said.
“This is the most expensive
building the University ol
Nebraska has ever built,” Wilson
said.
Smith agreed and said the pro
ject “wouldn’t have come to the
board because it wouldn’t have
come through my office.”
Smith’s office, NUi central
administration, previews .all majoi
university construction proposals
before the regents vote to approve
them.
Friday’s budget increase will
pay to finish another 83,194 square
feet of space, including the top
three unfinished floors, plus space
on floors seven through 10, 380C
square feet of space on the second
floor, and a link between the cen
ter’s third floor and University
Hospital.
Penn-Co will complete con
struction covered in the original
contract in 1998.
Regents said they hoped a new
position recently created at the uni
versity, assistant vice president and
director of facilities planning and
management, would ensure the
university avoids unexpected
spending on buildings in the future.
Administrators hired Rebecca
Roller, a registered architect with a
master’s degree in business admin
istration, for the new position.
In other action, the Board of
Regents approved establishing a
new Center for Neurovirology and
Neurodegenerative Disorders at
UNMC.
The center will create a core
group to research neurological dis
orders, including Alzheimer’s dis
ease and HIV-associated dementia.
Howard Gendelman, director
of the center, said the center will
research new drugs and other treat
ments for patients suffering from
these disorders and increase the
quality of clinical care given to
Nebraskans with various forms of
neurovirological disorders.
RHA president plans mentoring groups
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between executive and student
RHA members. Three student
members would be assigned to one
executive member who would act
as a mentor, he said.
“These mentors will give RHA
members personal RHA contacts
to answer questions and be there to
provide assistance,” Wallace said.
RHA also discussed its budget,
which will be passed in two weeks.
The group passed a bill that will
provide Harper-Schramm-Smith
residence hall complex with $450
dollars for the annual Beach Bash
which will be held Sept. 13.
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