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...never been cleaned, and decided to scour it out. "Because of the magnitude of the job," wrote Water Commissioner James L. Marcus in last month's issue of the American City (circ. 35,664), an urban management magazine, "we awarded it to an experienced and well-equipped contractor...
Died. Robert Helberg, 61, Boeing aircraft scientist, builder of the immensely successful Lunar Orbiter spacecraft; of a heart attack; in Seattle. As the prime contractor's man in charge of the venture since inception in 1963, Helberg gets much credit for the five camera-bearing vehicles that whizzed around the moon and snapped some of the most dramatic pictures in all science...
Time consciousness also forced the University to break the traditional "lump sum tender" convention in which the architect first does all the designing and makes the final blueprints upon which construction contractors later make kids. The lowest bidder is then usually chosen. Instead, University officials commissioned the architect and the contractor simultaneously...
...worked well. "The contractor and the architect should work together. You save time and money and have a better building," said Andrews. Changes which the contractor finds are necessary can then be made "without all the red tape that is usually involved." Andrews hopes Harvard will allow the same architect-contractor relationship, though he thinks the University will choose the more conventional course...
Andrews works closely not only with the contractor, but with educators (the 36-year-old Dean of Scarborough worked very closely with Andrews), sociologists, economists, and other specialists. System programming, according to Andrews, is the critical factor in reaching his goals of movement and communication. A typical application is to the circulation plan of people. With system programming, he says, the designer reaches, a rational decision on the number of elevators or the width of corridors for a building...