September Meeting:
Project Delivery Insights Using Construction Manager at Risk Process
Monday, September 11, 2006
- Oswald Visitor’s Center, University of Minnesota, Landscape Arboretum

The University of Minnesota used the Construction Manager at Risk process to design and construct the Oswald Visitor’s Center at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen.

Find out from the Owner, Architect and Contractor perspective how this delivery method worked for this project.

Completed in early 2005, the Visitor’s Center is designed to be compatible and work along side the existing Snyder Building, designed by Minnesota Architect Edwin Lundie, to create a kind of “hamlet setting”.

The Visitor Center provides for a variety of activities. The exposed wood trussed ‘Great Hall’ welcomes and orients visitors to the Arboretum, functioning as the entry point, information area, resources and exhibit area. Also provided in the new facility are enlarged educational and conferencing facilities, a gallery, a larger dining hall, gift shop and restrooms. A skyway link provides access to the existing Snyder Hall. The project also included new terraces on the east and north with a lot of landscaping.

The project was delivered to the University of Minnesota through its Construction Manager at Risk process with McGough Construction Company and the RRTL design team working closely to manage the many programmatic, financial, aesthetic and scheduling constraints.
Tours will be lead by Albert ‘Chip’ Lindeke AIA, RRTL Architects, Project Architect; Fred Clayton, Uof M Owner’s representative; Tom Nonnemacher, McGough, and other members of the Design team and Arboretum.

About the Speakers
Chip Lindeke, Fred Clayton and Tom Nonnemacher will also deliver the evening presentation, which will provide the background and insights from all three perspectives: Owner, Architect and Contractor. Chip Lindeke received a Master of Architecture from the University of Minnesota. He is a principal with Rafferty Rafferty Tollefson Lindeke with more than 25 years experience with educational and religious communities. Chip was the Project Architect for this project and is a past President of AIA Minnesota- St. Paul Chapter.

Fred Clayton was the Owner’s Representative with the University of Minnesota, Department of Capital Planning and Programming on the project. He has delivered some 200 projects for the University since 1993. Fred has been employed by the University since 1986 and will be transitioning to Facility Coordinator for the College of Education & Human Development at the University in early September.

Agenda:
· Tour Registration 3:30-4:00 pm
· Tours 3:45-4:45 and 4:00-5:00
· Program Registration 5:00-5:45
· Rebecca Foss Fellowship Recognition/Anniversary Acknowledgements 5:45-6:15
· Buffet/Business Meeting 6:15-7:00
· Program 7:00-8:00

RSVP:
Please RSVP by SEPT. 5 2006, by calling (763) 744-1424 or emailing sharon@synergy-resource.com.

How to Get to the Arboretum
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum [952.443.1400] is located about 4 miles west of Chanhassen on State Hwy. 5, just one quarter-mile west of the intersection of State Hwy. 5 and State Hwy. 41. Please be vigilant as you wait to turn into the Arboretum.

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From Minneapolis
1. Take 35W to I-494 west to State Hwy. 5 (exit 11C).
OR, take 35W to the Crosstown (62), go west and follow the signs to Hwy. 212, but do not exit the highway, and continue west on State Hwy. 5.

2. Follow State Hwy. 5 for about 9.25 miles, past Chanhassen, past the intersection of State Hwy. 5 and State Hwy. 41. Just past the intersection of State Hwy. 41, there will be a small brown sign on the right-hand side of the road just before the Arboretum entrance. On the left you will see the large, pale-gray entrance sign.

3. Take a left-hand turn off Hwy. 5 onto the Arboretum Drive.

From St. Paul
1. Take I-494 to State Hwy. 5 (exit 11C)
OR take I-94 west to I-494, go south to State Hwy. 5 (exit 11C).

2. Follow State Hwy. 5 for about 9.25 miles, past Chanhassen, past the intersection of State Hwy. 5 and State Hwy. 41. Just past the intersection of State Hwy. 41, there will be a small brown sign on the right-hand side of the road just before the Arboretum entrance. On the left you will see the large, pale-gray entrance sign.

3. Take a left-hand turn off Hwy. 5 onto the Arboretum Drive.