Module 7 – Construction

Construction Administration:  The MSBA continues to monitor the progress of the project to confirm that it remains on schedule and within budget and meets the expectation of both the District and the MSBA as defined in the Project Funding Agreement.  For the MSBA to process Reimbursement Requests submitted by the District, the project team is required to enter project budgets associated with the Amendment to the Project Funding Agreement into the ProPay System.  In order to easily align line items in reimbursement requests with ProPay codes and the Project Funding Agreement and, therefore, expedite processing requests, the MSBA is providing a sample standardized Schedule of Values to be used by the project team.  As the project progresses in the Construction Administration Phase, the District is required through its consultants to submit its Change Orders, executed and pending, in the format approved by the MSBA, for MSBA review to determine which costs may be eligible for reimbursement and to process related Budget Revision Requests in a timely manner.  It is important to note that all revisions to the Project Budgets that have been established in either the Feasibility Study Agreement or the Project Funding Agreement must be submitted to the MSBA for review and acceptance.  The commissioning agent continues to play an integral role in this phase, testing all systems to ensure that the new or renovated building as a whole operates efficiently and as the owner intended.  Project teams are reminded that the DCAM Standard Contractor Evaluation Form must be completed at fifty percent project completion and at final completion of the project.

As of March 28, 2012, 96 projects are in Construction:

• 60 Green Repair Program Projects

• 36 New Program and Waitlist Projects
  • 11 Elementary Schools
    • Billerica, Brookline (Heath), Brookline (Runkle), Carlisle, Douglas, Nashoba, Needham, Norfolk, Somerville, Sturbridge, Winchester 
  • 8 Middle and Middle/High Schools
    • Adams-Cheshire Regional, Burlington (Marshall Simonds), Fall River, Hudson, Medway, Rockland, Shrewsbury, Sutton
  • 17 High Schools