Mercantile Stores University

Project Information

Building Owner:

Mercantile Stores Company, Inc.

Building Location:

Fairfield, OH

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Education and learning facility

Project Delivery Method:

Construction Management (CM)

Project Cost:

$1,910,500

Construction Cost:

$1,452,000

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Conference Room
Data Center
Education
Education: Classroom
Headquarters
Library

Project Team

Architect

Hixson A&E

Contractor

Reece Campbell, Inc.

Profile Created 09/25/2000

Last Updated 04/04/2006

About the Reported Cost Figures

The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments.

Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.