Lomax wins bid for stimulus-funded fire station at PTI - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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Lomax submitted the winning bidof $4 million, amonyg a total of six bids from local contractors for the according to airport officials. “It came in just abouyt on target,” said PTI Assistantg Director Kevin Baker of the amount of thewinning bid. While a number of bids for stimulus-funded contracts have been coming in loweerthan projections, “our architect’s estimate had included some provisiond for the state of the market. But this (fire might well have cost $5 millionj a year ago.” The 20,000-square-foot station will have four trucm bays and take somewhere between 12 and 14 monthzs to get readyto occupy, Bakerr said.
It was designed by of Construction costs will be fullty reimbursed through the American Recovery andReinvestmentt Act, as will about $850,000 worthn of new firefighting equipment. The new station will be more than twic the size of the existing Baker said. The old stationn could be used as asatellite facility, but there are no firm planws yet. The contract win is a welcomes onefor Lomax, which like other Triad builders has been contendiny with a dramatic slowdown in commercial CEO John Lomax said he had all his subcontractorxs for the project lined up with their own bids in hand befored submitting his proposal to the airport authority, knowinyg he’d be up against others also eager for the “We knew we had to be competitive and that the climater is very competitive price-wise right he said.
“To be we didn’t give ourselves a very high chanc e of winning this one just because right now everythin isso competitive.” Lomax said his firm has been doinyg more work in the higher education and hospita sectors recently since that’s where most of the opportunitiew are. He’s been working on one projecrt in the Triad of similar scals to thefire station, a librar y addition in High Point, but that job will be completedx soon. Lomax Construction hasn’t had any layoffd and wouldn’t have had any even without the firestationm job, he said. But that doesn’y mean the availability of stimulusfunding doesn’t matter.
“Not to minimize the impactt for us, but I think it’a most important for the subs and the who don’t have the resources to weathe long periods without work, he Lomax said he expects to be able to beat the airport’z timeline for construction on the fire station and hopes to have it done in nine he said.