and a whopping ($50,000) for an asphalt roof in lieu of Steel,” plus ($16,800) for “sealed concrete in lieu of fluid flooring,” or else a floor poured in liquid form which then hardens to a smooth surface.

Ditching the savings parentheses but keeping along the same cost track, the Community Center project was able to delete $12,000 from the total bill by nixing “Panel Partition Removal,” along with a further $2,500 for “Picture Rail Removal.” Choosing an electric water heater in place of on demand, brings a net savings of $1,450, with a switch to Pex underfloor versus copper overhead yielding $4,500.

Meanwhile, revised RTU modifications brought about $7,400, while a CT Cabinet mounted on the building yielded $1,040 in cost savings. The removal of door operators saved $3,000, while removal of soffit lighting saved $2,900, with removal of the access control removing $8,500 from the final projected cost of construction. The savings were yet to come. Choosing plam cabinets in place of phenolic, meanwhile, led to $10,500 in project cost reduction. In case the names stump you, they refer to materials used.

Closing out the savings side of the change order was $900 in cost reduction for choosing hollow metal in place of aluminum for doors 103B and 109B, while the removal of a roof drain removed $2,800 in costs and the removal of 12 windows saved $4,400 for local taxpayers on the hook for the building. With savings totaling $178,937 in the change order, there are still costs to balance this out for a net savings of $118,533 as recorded on the change form.

Balancing out the initial $178,937 to the above in savings are three separate charges, taken as a whole and subtracted to reach the net savings figure.

The first charge of $29,859 is for added concrete costs for the foundations in place of precast, $15,000 in added winter conditions cost due to the contract date (included as a line item with $15,000 the upper limit), and a whopping $15,545 in added lumber costs “due to inflation,” which it was said recently wouldn’t come as a surprise to those watching construction costs recently.

All told then, the change order beginning with a starting value of $1,480,384 then subtracts a total of $178,937 in cost savings to bottom out just above $1.3 million, before an additional $60,404 in added costs brings the final price figure back to $1,361,851 for the Chapman Park Community Center.