Commissioners OK $345K in Banks change orders - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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“Nobody likes change orders, particularlyg in this time,” said Project Manager John Deatrick. He briefes the panel on the extra charges during the same meetinf where commissionersapproved $6.1 million in spending cuts from the county’xs 2009 general fund budget. Change orders are contracr revisions that pay vendors for problema encounteredduring construction. The orders coveref by Wednesday’s vote amount to half of the roughluy $700,000 in change orders incurred by Banks contractoreto date. That $700,000 represents 2.1 percent of the $32.6 million in Banks contacts awardecdto date.
“It’s a good rate compared to the nationa l average of over10 percent,” Deatricj said. “But we’re still pressing to try to minimizethesed things.” Despite the additionao spending, the Banks project is about $3 million below its first-phases budget estimate of $92.5 million. The project achieveed savings when construction bids came in lowerthan expected. Since everyu change order eats away atthoswe savings, Deatrick is working on ways to preventioj future problems. The largest change orderf so far involved a new sectio of Freedom Way that will connect Race Streetto Elm.
When Baketr Concrete tried to connect the new streeft platform to the existing Race they foundmetal connectors, buried in the concrete, were too rusted to use. So, they had to take out those connectors andreplace them, at a cost of