San Marcos, California
1990
Offices
The Project consisted of providing the Vallecitos Water District services to program and design a new headquarters facility on a 75 acre site. The result of this programming is a complex on approximately 14 acres of the existing 75 with four buildings.
The buildings are as follows:
- Administration Building 40,000sf
- Operations Office Building 10,000sf
- Shops Building 13,000sf
- Warehouse 13,000sf
Other structures on the site include a fueling island and a vehicle wash building.
The project cost estimate was $8,500,000 and the bid price was $8,725,000. The five lowest bidders were within 5% of each other. Change orders totaled 5.4% ; of that approximately 2.4% were Owner additions/ changes, and 3% were field and A/E change orders.