Jim Rudisill
for The Hawk Eye
COLUMBUS JUNCTION The low bid for a previously approved asbestos abatement project for the Columbus School District’s secondary building campus will mean nearly $17,600 in savings, the school board learned Monday.
District business manager Neil Mills said Shive-Hattery Associates, Cedar Rapids, which is serving as the engineering consultant for the project, had reported receiving four bids for the summer project.
Iowa-Illinois Taylor Insulation, Inc, Davenport, had submitted a low bid of $37,403. The construction budget had been set at $55,000 and approved in May by the board.
According to Shive-Hattery’s bid tabulation, asbestos will be abated from pipe fittings and insulation, wall gaskets, floor tile and mastic. New pipe insulation also will be installed.
According to them, despite the attrition rate in the aviation sector because of teething problems, airliners in Nigeria are making brisk business in the last few years as they witness heavy traffic of customers.
Apart from people who have the means that always travel by air, middle-income earners are increasingly avoiding road travel because of insecurity.
In the North, for instance, they specifically cited the challenges of travelling from Abuja to Kaduna, Kano, Gusau, Kebbi and Sokoto in the North-West; and Yobe, Borno, Bauchi, Gombe, Yola and Jalingo in the North-East.
Our correspondents report that Boko Haram fighters, bandits and kidnappers have killed many people on the highway while hundreds of passengers lost their lives through road accidents and sectarian crises.
Columbus School Board selects Burlington firm for infrastructure improvements
Jim Rudisill
for The Hawk Eye
COLUMBUS JUNCTION A Burlington consulting firm has been given the job of seeking bids for several proposed Columbus School District building infrastructure improvement projects, after submitting a proposal cutting the estimates submitted earlier by another consulting firm by nearly $200,000.
The school board agreed during its regular monthly meeting Monday to accept the proposal from Klingner and Associates, after comparing the estimates in that package to estimates provided last month by Shive-Hattery Associates, Cedar Rapids.
At last month’s meeting, the board tentatively agreed to direct Shive-Hattery to seek bids for replacing a chiller at the Roundy Elementary building and for cooling and dehumidifying the middle school gym and the auditorium.
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Green Africa, Nigeria’s Lagos-based value airline, has taken delivery of one of its first ATR 72-600. The aircraft arrived in Lagos on Friday, April 23 with a lot of fanfare.
The ATR-72-600 plane is the first of the three aircraft currently leased from ACIA Aero Leasing, a regional aircraft lessor with offices in Ireland, Mauritius, France and South Africa.
The new entrant carrier recently unveiled the livery of two aircraft (5N-GAE and 5N-GAA) with the third aircraft (5N-GAD) now beautifully wrapped in the Green Africa livery in preparation for the final lap of the Air Operators Certificate (AOC) in process.
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