Engineering for Parking Structures�r
MEM)
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Manager
SUBJECT: Engineering for Parking Structure
It may be helpful to note more than just the cost of an engineering
report when consider ing the overall cost of a parking structure project.
All three engineering firms have now rendered their approximate fee, presented
as a percentage of the total job. This would be:
Carl Walker Assoc.
IcM Engineering
BWBR Architects
March 16, 1982
5.75% (no credit for report cost)
4.25% (no credit for report cost)
4 4.5 (will credit report cost)
For a hypothetical million dollar project, the cost to the city for
engineering would be:
Carl Walker Assoc. $57,500 $4,000 $61,500
RCM Engineering $42,500 $5,500 $48,000
EWBR Architects $45,000 $45,000
Based on the above sample calculations, it appears that the least expensive
firm of the three for the engineering report, BWBR Architects, would also cost the
least for the overall job.
My recommendation m„e,ns that the city not commit itself to a complete job
of construction engineering at this time, but only to obtaining an engineering
report. Many details have to be worked out before this matter can crane back to
Council for a recommendation on plans and specifications.
Does not inch& engineering report on possible City Hall ramp.