Mart Building St. Louis, Mo. (c) For surface applied hardware, other than lock trim: plates of suitable size not less than .125 inch thick. (a) Welding: steel plates either continuous fillets at both edges of the long dimension, 1/2' fillets not over 2" apart in all contact edges, or spot welds at points not over 2" apart in both directions on contact surfaces. Bronze or aluminum plates; fillets as specified above for steel; spot welding not acceptable. Any variation due to job conditions shall be as approved by the Contracting Officer. 11-29. Fitting of Hardware shall be done at the factory, either to templates or to the hardware, as may be required. 11-30. Door knobs shall center 38" above the finished floor. 11-31. Flush Type doors shall consist of two face plates formed to the required door thickness and with the edges continuously welded to reinforcing plates or channels. The face plates shall be stiffened by channels or Z members not less than .048" thick, spaced not more than 6" apart, extending the full height of the plates and welded thereto at close intervals. Filler strips not less than 2" wide shall be placed full height in the spaces between stiffeners. 11-32. A continuous truss-formed inner core of sheet metal not less than .015 inch thick may be substituted for the stiffeners specified above provided it is spot welded to the face plates every 2-3/4" horizontally and vertically over the entire surface of both sides. The core shall include a suitable type of insulation to give the effect of solidity. 11-33. Finish on Steel. Baked Enamel Finish is required. The metal shall be cleaned, primed, filled and completely finished at the factory. 11-34. Unexposed steel, except zinc coated, shall be cleaned and given one spray or dip coat of rust-inhibitive, metallic oxide paint and one coat of metallic oxide primer baked on at the factory. 11-35. Prime Finish: All metal surfaces shall be cleaned and given one dip or spray coat of rust-inhibitive, metallic oxide paint on all exposed and inaccessible surfaces, including the inside of doors and the backs of panel sheets, trim and moldings, and then baked. All surfaces that will be exposed shall then be given a mineral filler in one or two coats as necessary to conceal all surface blemishes and insure a smooth even finish, followed by one coat of metallic oxide primer. Each filler and prime coat shall be separately baked and rubbed to a smooth surface. Mart Bldg. St. Louis, Mo. 11-36. Baked Enamel Finish. After the prime finish specified above has been applied and rubbed smooth, all surfaces that will be exposed shall be given two color coats of enamel, followed by one coat of clear baking varnish. Each coat of enamel shall be baked separately and rubbed smooth and the final varnish coat shall be baked and rubbed to an eggshell gloss. Any striping required shall be done before the final varnish coat is applied. Color shall be 34441 or as approved by the GSA Representative. 11-37. General. Each coat of prime and finish material shall be applied evenly and in sufficient quantity to completely cover the preceding coat and be baked at proper temperature to secure maximum protection. Enamels and varnishes shall produce durable, waterproof finishes suitable for the service required. 1. All work shall be carried out in strict accordance with specifications dated March 16, 1959, and this Addendum dated March 20, 1959. * * * * 12. Add Paragraph No. 11-9A Panels shall receive a prime coat, a body coat and a finish coat of paint of color specified for adjoining walls. 13. Add Paragraph 11-10A specified for other metal work. 14. Paragraph No. 11-14 Add "Partition between darkroom and X-Ray room shall have lead lining extended from floor to ceiling.' line 16 This note shall require lead coated hardware exposed in X-Ray room only. 16. Paragraph No. 11-20 lines 5 and 6 delete the following words "Hollow bronze work; cold rolled bronze sheets of uniform color, process leveled and finished smooth". 17. Add Paragraph No. 11-38. Lead lined partitions shall be constructed by replacing the inner sheet of gypsum panel with a plywood panel lined with lead of thickness specified. This panel shall extend from floor to height specified and shall be joined to panel above with regular separation bar. 18. Add Paragraph No. 11-39. All doors both interior and at exterior of of X-Ray rooms shall have lead lining, the full width and heighth of doors with provision made for adequate protection where hardware is installed. 19. Add Paragraph No. 11-40. All exposed metal in area to be lead protected shall be covered with 1/16 inch thick lead for complete protection and securely fastened in place. 20. Add Paragraph No. 11-41. Concrete columns at walls where lead lined partitions are required shall be covered with 1/16 inch thick sheet lead securely fastened to columns and extended into partitions to provide a com plete shield. Lead cover shall extend to height of adjoining lead lined walls. 21. Add Paragraph No. 11-42. All attachments to or holes cut through lead shall be adequately repaired or sheilded by lead to give complete protection from rays. All nails, screws, etc. penetrating lead shall have lead сар. Lead lining for X-ray rooms shall be 99.9 percent pure, thickness shall not vary more than 3% over entire surface, free from dross, oxide inclusions, scale, blisters and cracks and no soldering permitted. 22. Add Paragraph No. 11-43. All exposed lead or lead lined panels shall be painted as specified for other panels or metal. 23. Add Paragraph No. 11-44. Where lead lined panels or lead covering extends to floor the regular metal base on partitions shall be installed but need not be lead covered. Asphalt base shall be placed over lead cover on concrete columns. 24. Add Paragraph No. 11-45. In completing lead lining of walls where specified no area of wall, doors or columns shall be left unprotected by lead cover. Exhibit 2--Letter from J. Gordon Henges, Henges Company, Inc., St. Louis, We are directing this letter to your attention because we know that we'll receive your consideration and that we will also receive answers to the questions we are raising. In order to give you a little background on the situation as it stands today we should like to recite the following facts in reasonable, chronological order. For some period prior to the actual writing of the specifications covering the work to be done on the Mart Building job, we had been in contact with your Mr. Ralph Warren and with Mr. William Rankin. Our specific interest in contacting them was to point out the value of movable partitions in much of the work which was currently being designed through your BSA office. 1? About the time the work at the Mart Building was determined to be necessary we were asked by Mr. Warren if we could assist in writing specifications for that job. of course we were most happy to do so. Mr. Warren in turn put us in contact with Mr. Al Glassbrook and Mr. Gil White. At that time he pointed out the critical time element involved in this work. Regional Commissioner Page #2 General Services Administration, Region 6 2306 East Bannister Road Kansas City, Missouri June 25, 1959 It was desired that this work be accomplished and completed so that the Army could move the Induction Center in by July 1st. Mr. Warren then asked our Kansas City office if we were certain that the materials necessary to do this job could be made available and work could Right! start immediately the job was ready for the partition work to begin. In order to be absolutely sure our Kansas City office contacted us and learned the inventory in our warehouse in St. Louis was adequate to do the entire job. Further discussion indicated because of the shortness of Once more our Kansas City office con Right! time allowed for this remodeling work, it might be neces- Rankin? sary or at least desirable, that the partition panels as well as all exposed metal parts be painted prior to delivery to the job. The idea behind this procedure was to again save time. tacted us in St. Louis office and received assurance that we would set aside all other things and if necessary paint all materials prior to delivery to the job. The advantage that was considered in this pre-painting was that other work necessary to the remodeling of the area could be in progress at the same time the parts were being painted and the panels fabricated and also painted. We were further able to assure Mr. Warren and the interested people there in your office that we had an adequate staff of trained mechanics that we could put on this work and we would be willing to guarantee that there would be no question of our completing the job on the terminal date desired. As a result of these preliminary discussions we were asked to write a specification that would give them the partitions_which we felt would be best for this installation. This we did. We went over these specifications very carefully with both Mr. Glassbrook and Mr. White. Upon their completion, the finalized form of the specifications were • discussed with Mr. Warren and Mr. Rankin. After this meeting the specifications were approved and they were included in the general specifications sent out to all contractors bidding this work. |