Pine Knoll Shores board OKs contract for public safety building roof design

PINE KNOLL SHORES — Town commissioners Wednesday evening voted 5- to approve a deal for style of a new roof for the public works creating.

The board achieved in the city corridor on Municipal Circle.

Town Supervisor Brian Kramer informed the board he recommended approval of a $28,500 agreement with Coastal Architecture of Morehead City with layout led by Lee Dixon, and the panel agreed.

“This involves architectural, structural and mechanical and electrical engineering involved with the (metal roof) overbuild,” he instructed the commissioners.

The new roof will be slanted and created atop the present flat space.

The city, Kramer explained, will fork out Coastal Architecture, then ask for reimbursement from the federal authorities, which ought to happen close to 60 times soon after submission of reimbursement requests.

Kramer explained the general public basic safety making has knowledgeable really serious leaking in just about each and every tropical event the city has skilled due to the fact 2007.

“Following Hurricane Florence (in September 2018), we made the conclusion to consider two important steps to address this,” he claimed to the board in a memo. “First, at our own expense (that is, past what insurance policies offered for destruction repair service) we replaced all the home windows and some exterior doors on the making.

“This was accomplished in 2020. Next, following conversations in the course of Florence after motion evaluations, we specific addressing the roof as a principal objective in the approved expenditures from FEMA. The workers thinks that a flat roof, irrespective of the strength of the delicate rubber membrane, provides a vulnerability that will stay with us as lengthy as it remains on the constructing.”

As a outcome, the town submitted the roof venture to FEMA in January 2021 and obtained approval in June 2022.

Kramer said the city will also use Coastal Architecture for aid in bidding and engineering oversight of the building challenge as effectively.

The town expects to award a agreement for development of the roof in January.

Kramer said Coastal Architecture has a superior work document in the region, which include a equivalent design-create challenge carried out for the Ann Road Methodist Church in Beaufort.

“Coastal Architecture made and oversaw building of a new metallic roof overbuild on the present flat roof to address the identical continuous leak issue that PKS faces,” he reported in the memo to the board for the meeting Wednesday evening.

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