Specifications include, but are not limited to: Construction Manager Services for a new offsite collections facility located in the Como area of the Twin Cities campus. The Offsite Collections Facility (OCF) project consists of three (3) major areas of scope: • A72,600 sq ft facility providing carefully controlled interior storage and support space for library collections. • Stormwater Management to mitigate Campus flooding with corresponding Outdoor Yard/ Campus adjustments. • General Parking to provide central campus parking. The approximate 9-acre project site chosen for the new facility is at the Southeast corner of 29th Avenue and Como Avenue, adjacent to several University owned buildings. The site is currently a University operated parking lot (Lot C66) as well as a site housing two University properties: the Heavy Equipment Building and Steam Utilities Building. The existing Lot C66 parking lot will be altered to accommodate the new project; the existing buildings are to remain. University Libraries will be the primary user of the OCF collections storage and support spaces. The facility will provide shelving capacity for 2.5 million volumes initially with the ability to add future shelving to provide a total minimum capacity of 3.3 million volumes. Support spaces within the OCF will accommodate processing and timely delivery of the collections including accessioning space, retrieval and sorting space, scanning stations, loading dock, and mechanical/electrical spaces.
