BELMONT APPOINTEE UPBEAT ON PROJECT.Byline: David Baker David Baker may refer to:
With the fate of the $200 million Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. still undecided, Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. officials on Thursday named a San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. engineer who believes it can be saved to take charge of the troubled project. The announcement comes days after Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified spent $8.5 million for insurance against environmental liability problems at Belmont and other schools and the day before the school board is scheduled to announce the appointment of a commission to recommend whether to abandon the project. Edwin Weyrauch, 51, will fill the new $180,000-a-year post intended to give the district better oversight on the project, which has been delayed by concerns about potentially explosive methane methane (mĕth`ān), CH4, colorless, odorless, gaseous saturated hydrocarbon; the simplest alkane. It is less dense than air, melts at −184°C;, and boils at −161.4°C;. gas on the site. Before, day-to-day responsibility for work on the massive downtown high school had been spread out among several people. ``The idea is to have one point person to go to,'' said district Superintendent District Superintendent may be:
He said Weyrauch's experience managing costly and complex projects, such as construction of a $183 million sewage treatment Sewage treatment Unit processes used to separate, modify, remove, and destroy objectionable, hazardous, and pathogenic substances carried by wastewater in solution or suspension in order to render the water fit and safe for intended uses. plant in San Diego, would serve him well on Belmont, the nation's costliest school. School board members today are scheduled to appoint a commission that in two months will recommend whether or not the project should be killed over environmental concerns. Weyrauch said he is still learning the project's many details but believes Belmont can be made safe for students. ``If you look at it as an engineer and take away the emotion, I think it's possible to make it a safe project,'' said Weyrauch. Even if the project is abandoned, district officials said they would still need Weyrauch for the one-year length of his contract to oversee closing down the project. ``It's not something you can quickly pack up and leave,'' said spokesman Erik Nasarenko. Nasarenko said the newly purchased insurance policy providing $100 million in coverage applies to all school sites, including Belmont, and more insurance may be bought to cover cleanup costs just at Belmont. Weyrauch brings to the job almost 30 years of experience as an engineer and project manager, much of it with the U.S. Navy. He is a deputy construction manager with Kaiser Engineers in San Diego and will remain with the company while working on Belmont. The district will pay Kaiser $180,000 for Weyrauch's services during the year-long contract. Weyrauch will be based at the Belmont construction site, located at the intersection of Temple and Beaudry streets, and will have direct authority over contractors working on the school as well as the developer, Turner-Kajima. His duties will include approving payments and work plans. Weyrauch will report directly to Zacarias and said he wasn't daunted daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin by the complexity of the project or the controversy surrounding it. ``I've been given challenges since I was in the military, and I kind of like them,' he said. |
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