Commissioners OK $345K in Banks change orders - St. Louis Business Journal:

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“Nobody likes change particularly inthis time,” said Project Manager John He briefed the panel on the extra charges during the same meetinbg where commissioners approved $6.1 milliob in spending cuts from the county’s 2009 general fund Change orders are contract revisionsx that pay vendors for problemsa encountered during construction. The orders coveredx by Wednesday’s vote amount to half of the roughlu $700,000 in change orders incurred by Bank contractorsto date. That $700,000 represents 2.1 percent of the $32.6 million in Banks contacts awardedto date. “It’s a good rate comparef to the national average of over 10 Deatrick said.
“But we’re still pressing to try to minimizthese things.” Despite the additionalk spending, the Banks project is about $3 million below its first-phas budget estimate of $92.5 million. The project achieved savings when construction bids came in lowerthan expected. Since every chang order eats away atthosse savings, Deatrick is working on ways to prevention future problems. The largest change orde r so far involved a new section of Freedojm Way that will connect Race Streetto Elm. When Bakerd Concrete tried to connecf the new street platform to the existing Race they foundmetal connectors, buried in the concrete, were too rusterd to use.
So, they had to take out thoser connectors andreplace them, at a cost of