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HomeMy WebLinkAboutContract 2012 2450 BRAUN Braun Intertec Corporation Phone:952995.2000 I NTE RT EC siooi Hampshire Ave S Fax: 952.995.2020 Minneapolis,MN 55438 Web:braunintertec.com May 22,2012 Proposal BL-12-02875 Joseph Kloiber, CPA City of Columbia Heights 590 40th Ave. NE Columbia Heights, MN 55421 Re: Proposal for the Structural Assessment 5225 University Ave. Columbia Heights, MN Mr. Kloiber: Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with this proposal for the structural evaluation and assessment of the distressed masonry basement foundation wall. The following is our understanding of the project: • The building is a single-story structure constructed in the early 1960's with masonry block foundation and exterior walls with a precast plank main floor and a concrete slab-on-grade at the basement level. • The south section of the east basement wall has experienced distress and differential movement for some time and it is reported that the issues have been observed for a better part of the past 12 to 16 years. • This past February, the foundation wall had enough movement that it disrupted the main electrical line that feeds into the building at this location and required an emergency shut-off until it was repaired. • The City is currently in the early planning stages of preparing for possible aesthetic upgrades to the building and would like to have a structural evaluation of this condition completed that includes corrective measure recommendations that provide a structurally stable wall. Based on the items outlined above and our initial walk-through that was completed on May 17, 2012,the following tasks will comprise of our scope work: 1. Complete a site visit to further document the condition of the basement wall and the corresponding wall above. This site visit will consist of visual observations and the use of a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to verify if the wall has any grouted cores currently in the wall. The GPR will not confirm if there is reinforcement, but will at least show if the wall has solid grouted cores to help with our analysis and determining the proposed corrective measures. 2. Perform a structural analysis based on the information obtained and complete assessment and prepare details and/or narration of corrective measures required as needed. We will take into consideration the equipment, conduit, and other equipment that is currently on the interior of the basement wall and on the exterior of the above grade wall. 3. Prepare a report that outlines our observations, opinions and corrective measures required. We estimate our cost to complete the above tasks to be as follows: City of Columbia Heights Proposal BL-12-02875 May 22, 2012 Page 2 Tasks 1-3: Structural Analysis,Report and Details $3,540 There are areas along the remaining structure that are showing signs of settlement and distress that the City should consider looking into having further evaluation completed. As an "Add Alternate", we would also complete the following tasks: 4. Complete the site observation to include the visual observation and GPR of the remaining foundation walls and review their condition within the same assessment and report for the east basement foundation wall. This would be for the assessment and opinion only and does not include time for preparing repair documents for these areas if deemed necessary. 5. As part of the evaluation we would recommend to have two soil borings completed and a geotechnical report prepared to assess the existing soil conditions near the building to determine if any further settlement can be expected or identify other issues as found. The borings would be taken near the southeast corner and northwest corner of the building and drilled to a 15-foot depth. Task 4: Continuation of Structural Assessment $1,000 Task 5: Soil Borings and Geotechnical Report $2,500 We will bill out at our hourly rate and at cost for the work completed and not to exceed the amount indicated above. Attached is our Cost Estimate that breaks down the time and hourly rates we anticipate needing for the work. We will not bill above this amount unless we receive prior approval. Please indicate if Tasks 4 and 5 should be included in our scope of work. General We appreciate the opportunity to present this proposal to you. It is provided in duplicate so the original can be retained for your records and the copy can be signed and returned to us. Please return the signed copy in its entirety. We include the Braun Intertec General Conditions, which provide additional terms and are a part of our agreement. City of Columbia Heights Proposal BL-12-02875 May 22, 2012 Page 3 To have questions answered or schedule a time to meet and discuss our approach to this project further, please call Jason Hanlon at 952.995.2580. Sincerely, BRAUN IN RTEC CORPOR TION J.son S. Hanlon, PE,SE Associate Principal—Senior Structural Engineer Attachments: Cost Estimate for Tasks 1-3, General Conditions (6/15/06) The proposal is accepted, and you are authorized to proceed with tasks 1-3 . City of Columbia Heights, MN Authorizer's Firm s � � � ✓ Authorizer's Signature'° Walter R. Fehst Authorizer's Name(please print or type) City Manager Authorizer's Title 6/19/2012 Date Proposal—City of Columbia Heights—5225 University Assessment B RAU N COST ESTIMATE INTERTEC BL-12-02875 5225 University Ave. City of Columbia Heights Service Desc: Structural Evaluation of Foundation Wall Joseph Kloiber 590 40th Ave. NE Work Location: 5225 University Ave. Columbia Heights,MN 55421-3897 Columbia Heights,MN Estimator: Jason Hanlon Description: Quantity: Units: Unit Price: Extension: Phase:Building Sciences Start Date: 6/4/2012 End Date:6/29/2012 Task: Building Sciences Staff Engineer 16.00 Hours 130.00 2,080.00 Project Engineer 6.00 Hours 160.00 960.00 Project Assistant 1.00 Hours 85.00 85.00 Ground Penetrating Radar 1.50 Hours 166.00 249.00 Trip Charge 1.00 Trip 46.00 46.00 Building Sciences Total: 3,420.00 Building Sciences Total: 3,420.00 Project Total: 3,420.00 Page 1 of 1 General Conditions BRAUN INTERTEC Our agreement("Agreement")with you consists employees are authorized by you to refuse to of these General Conditions and the work under conditions that may be unsafe. 2.6 Monitoring wells are your property, accompanying written proposal or authorization. and you are responsible for their permitting, 1.7 Estimates of our fees or other project maintenance,and abandonment unless we accept Section 1: Our Responsibilities costs will be based on information available to us that duty in writing, and on our experience and knowledge.Such 1.1 We will provide the services estimates are an exercise of our professional 2.7 You agree to make disclosures specifically described in our Agreement with judgment and are not guaranteed or warranted. required by law.In the event you do not own the you.You agree that we are not responsible for Actual costs may vary.You should allow a site,you acknowledge that it is your duty to services that are not fairly included in our contingency in addition to estimated costs. inform the owner of the discovery or release of specific undertaking.Unless otherwise agreed in contaminants at the site.You agree to hold us writing,our findings,opinions,and Section 2: Your Responsibilities harmless and indemnify us from claims related recommendations will be provided to you in to disclosures made by us that are required by writing.You agree not to rely on oral findings, 2.1 You will provide us with prior law and from claims related to the informing or opinions,or recommendations without our geotechnical and other reports,specifications, failure to inform the site owner of the discovery written approval. plans,and information to which you have access of contaminants. about the site.You agree to provide us with all 1.2 In performing our professional plans,changes in plans,and new information as Section 3: Reports and Records services,we will use that degree of care and skill to site conditions until we have completed our ordinarily exercised under similar circumstances work. 3.1 We will furnish reports to you in by reputable members of our profession duplicate.We will retain analytical data for practicing in the same locality.If you direct us to 2.2 You will provide access to the site.In seven years and financial data for three years. deviate from our recommended procedures,you the course of our work some site damage is agree to hold us harmless from claims,damages, normal even when due care is exercised.We will 3.2 Our reports,notes,calculations,and and expenses arising out of your direction. use reasonable care to minimize damage to the other documents and our computer software and site.We have not included the cost of restoration data are instruments of our service to you,and 1.3 We will reference our field of normal damage in the estimated charges. they remain our property but are subject to a observations and sampling to available reference license to you for your use in the related project points,but we will not survey,set,or check the 2.3 You agree to provide us,in a timely for the purposes disclosed to us.You may not accuracy of those points unless we accept that manner,with information that you have regarding transfer our reports to others or use them for a duty in writing.Locations of field observations or buried objects at the site.We will not be purpose for which they were not prepared sampling described in our report or shown on our responsible for locating buried objects at the site without our written approval,which will not be sketches are based on information provided by unless we accept that duty in writing.You agree unreasonably withheld.You agree to indemnify others or estimates made by our personnel.You to hold us harmless from claims,damages,losses, and hold us harmless from claims,damages, agree that such dimensions,depths,or elevations and related expenses involving buried objects of losses,and expenses,including attorney fees, are approximations unless specifically stated which you had knowledge but did not timely call arising out of such a transfer or use.At your otherwise in the report.You accept the inherent to our attention or correctly show on the plans request,we will provide endorsements of our risk that samples or observations may not be you or others on your behalf furnished to us, reports or letters of reliance,but only if the representative of things not sampled or seen and, recipients agree to be bound by the terms of our further,that site conditions may change over 2.4 You will notify us of any knowledge or agreement with you and only if we are paid the time, suspicion of the presence of hazardous or administrative fee stated in our then current dangerous materials in a sample provided to us. Schedule of Charges. 1.4 Our duties do not include supervising You agree to provide us with information in your your contractors or commenting on,overseeing, possession or control relating to contamination at 3.3 Because electronic documents may be or providing the means and methods of their the work site.If we observe or suspect the modified intentionally or inadvertently,you work,unless we accept such duties in writing.We presence of contaminants not anticipated in our agree that we will not be liable for damages will not be responsible for the failure of your Agreement,we may terminate our work without resulting from change in an electronic document contractors to perform in accordance with their liability to you or to others,and we will be paid occurring after we transmit it to you.In case of undertakings,and the providing of our services for the services we have provided. any difference or ambiguity between an will not relieve others of their responsibilities to electronic and a paper document,the paper you or to others. 2.5 Neither this Agreement nor the document shall govern. providing of services will operate to make us an 1.5 We will provide a health and safety owner,operator,generator,transporter,treater, 3.4 If you do not pay for our services in program for our employees,but we will not be storer,or a disposal facility within the meaning full as agreed,we may retain work not yet responsible for contractor,job,or site health or of the Resource Conservation Recovery Act,as delivered to you and you agree to return to us all safety unless we accept that duty in writing. amended,or within the meaning of any other law of our work that is in your possession or under governing the handling,treatment,storage,or your control.You agree not to use or rely upon 1.6 You will provide,at no cost to us, disposal of hazardous materials.You agree to our work for any purpose whatsoever until it is appropriate site safety measures as to work areas hold us harmless and indemnify us from any paid for in full. to be observed or inspected by us.Our such claim or loss. Page 1 of 2 0 Providing engineering and environmental solutions since 1957 3.5 Samples remaining after tests are Section 5: Disputes,Damage,and Section 6: General Indemnification conducted and field and laboratory equipment Risk Allocation that cannot be adequately cleansed of 6.1 We will indemnify are and continue to be your enstifY and hold you Y 5.1 Each of us will exercise good faith harmless from and against demands,damages, property.They will be discarded or returned to efforts to resolve disputes without litigation. and expenses to the comparative extent they are you,at our discretion,unless within 15 days of Such efforts will include,but not be limited to,a caused by our negligent acts or omissions or the report date you give us written direction to meeting(s)attended by each party's those negligent acts or omissions of persons for store or transfer the materials at your expense. representative(s)empowered to resolve the whom we are legally responsible.You will dispute.Before either of us commences an action indemnify and hold us harmless from and Section 4:Compensation against the other,disputes(except collections) against demands,damages,and expenses to the will be submitted to mediation. comparative extent they are caused by your 4.1 You will pay for services as agreed negligent acts or omissions or those negligent upon or according to our then current Schedule of 5.2 Neither of us will be liable for special, acts or omissions of persons for whom you are Charges if there is no other written agreement as incidental,consequential,or punitive damages, legally responsible. to price.An estimated cost is not a firm figure. including but not limited to those arising from You agree to pay all sales taxes and other taxes delay,loss of use,loss of profits or revenue,loss 6.2 To the extent it may be necessary to based on your payment of our compensation.Our of financing commitments or fees,or the cost of indemnify either of us under Section 6.1,you performance is subject to credit approval and capital. and we expressly waive,in favor of the other payment of any specified retainer. only,any immunity or exemption from liability 5.3 We will not be liable for damages that exists under any worker compensation law. 4.2 You will notify us of billing disputes unless suit is commenced within two years of the within 15 days.You will pay undisputed date of injury or loss or within two years of the 6.3 You agree to indemnify us against portions of invoices on receipt.You agree to pay date of the completion of our services, losses and costs arising out of claims of patent or interest on unpaid balances beginning 30 days whichever is earlier.We will not be liable unless copyright infringement as to any process or after invoice dates at the rate of 1.5%per month, you have notified us of the discovery of the system that is specified or selected by you or by or at the maximum rate allowed by law. claimed breach of contract,negligent act,or others on your behalf. omission within 30 days of the date of discovery 4.3 If you direct us to invoice another,we and unless you have given us an opportunity to Section 7: Miscellaneous Provisions will do so,but you agree to be responsible for our investigate and to recommend ways of compensation unless you provide us with that mitigating damages. 7.1 We will provide a certificate of person's written acceptance of all terms of our insurance to you upon request.Any claim as an Agreement and we agree to extend credit to that 5.4 For you to obtain the benefit of a fee Additional Insured shall be limited to losses person and to release you. which includes a reasonable allowance for risks, caused by our sole negligence. you agree that our aggregate liability will not 4.4 You agree to compensate us in exceed the fee paid for our services or$50,000, 7.2 This Agreement is our entire accordance with our fee schedule if we are asked whichever is greater,and you agree to indemnify agreement.It supersedes prior agreements.It or required to respond to legal process arising us from all liability to others in excess of that may be modified only in a writing,making out of a proceeding related to the project and as amount.If you are unwilling to accept this specific reference to the provision modified. to which we are not a party. allocation of risk,we will increase our aggregate liability to$100,000 provided that,within 10 73 Neither of us will assign or transfer 4.5 If we are delayed by factors beyond days of the date of our Agreement,you provide any interest,any claim,any cause of action,or our control,or if project conditions or the scope payment in an amount that will increase our fees any right against the other.Neither of us will or amount of work change,or if changed labor by 10%,but not less than$500,to compensate assign or otherwise transfer or encumber any union conditions result in increased costs, us for the greater risk undertaken.This increased fee is not the purchase of insurance, proceeds or expected proceeds or compensation decreased efficiency,or delays,or if the p from the project or project claims to any third standards or methods change,we will give you person,whether directly or as collateral or timely notice and we will receive an equitable 5.5 If you do not pay us within 60 days of otherwise adjustment of our compensation.If you and we invoice date,or if you make a claim against us do not reach agreement on such compensation that is resolved in our favor,you agree to 7.4 Our Agreement may be terminated within 30 days of our written application,we reimburse our expenses,including but not limited early only in writing.We will receive an may terminate without liability to you or others. to attorney fees,staff time,expert witness fees, and other costs of collection or litigation. equitable adjustment of our compensation in the event of early termination. 4.6 If you fail to pay us within 60 days following invoice date,we may consider the 5.6 The law of the state in which our default a total breach of our Agreement and,at servicing office is looted will govern all Revised 6-15-06 our option,terminate our duties without liability disputes.Farb of us waives trial by jury.No to you or to others. employee acting within the scope of employment shall have individual liability for his or her acts 4.7 In consideration of our providing or omissions,and you agree not make a claim insurance to cover claims made by you,you against individual employees. hereby waive any right of offset as to fees otherwise due us. 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