WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Mount Greylock School Committee on Thursday voted to enter into negotiations with New York City's Turner Construction to be the construction manager at risk on the district's planned addition/renovation project.

 

Turner interviewed on Thursday along with Gilbane Development of Philadelphia and Shawmut Design and Construction of West Springfield with a CM selection subcommittee, which voted to recommend Turner to the School Building Committee.

 

In turn, the School Building Committee voted to recommend Turner to the School Committee with Gilbane as a second choice.

 

"All three firms made our choice difficult today," School Building Committee Chairman Mark Schiek said. "They were all well done and did a thorough job in the presentation. ... That says a lot about the three firms that came out here."

 

The selection subcommittee included Schiek, Superintendent Douglas Dias, School Building Committee member Robert Ericson, architect Dan Colli of Design Partnership and owner's project manager Trip Elmore of Dore & Whittier.

 

"For the record, I had scored the [written] proposals with Gilbane first, Turner second and Shawmut third," Elmore said. "Gilbane's presentation was exceptionally done.

 

"It turned for me when I saw the team [that would be working on the project] hadn't worked together before. The team was coming from so many different places. I was concerned it wasn't a cohesive team whereas Turner's folks basically taken right off the job.

 

"It's a minor thing but these decisions are made on minor bits of information."

 

This story is developing.