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Rudolph/Libbe Wins 2012 Build Ohio Award Rudolph/Libbe Inc. has been honored with a prestigious 2012 Build Ohio Award for its work on the new Lake High School in Wood County. The awards were announced on Nov. 16, 2012, by the AGC of Ohio in Columbus. The project won top honors in the category of New Construction over $20 million. The company served as design/build contractor for Lake High School. The Collaborative Inc. (TCI) of Toledo was chosen as the bridging design architect, and TMP Architecture, Inc. of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. was the architect of record. The Lake High School project was, unofficially, Ohio’s first construction reform project, using the design/build delivery method. This project delivery process was permitted under an urgent necessity provision for construction in an emergency situation.
School officials wanted the new 144,980-sq-ft high school ready for students in July 2012. Under the construction management delivery system, they would have waited three years or longer to obtain occupancy. However, the design/build delivery method gave school officials the high-tech, cost-efficient high school they wanted in 15 months.
In 2011, Ohio Governor Kasich signed House Bill 153, which included the first changes in the state’s method of performing public construction in over 134 years. These changes, known as Ohio Construction Reform or OCR, will substantially change how public improvement projects are completed and will permit the use of alternative construction delivery methods. Ohio Construction Reform retains the current multiple-prime design-bid-build project delivery method, but gives public owners other construction options that are faster, involve less risk and provide greater flexibility and most important, lower cost. Ohio Construction Reform includes the design/build delivery method which was used to construct Lake High School. About Rudolph/Libbe Companies |
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