Construction Contract Awarded
The Schless Construction Company, Inc., of Batavia, Illinois, has been awarded the contract for construction of the Linear Accelerator enclosure for the National Accelerator Laboratory at the site of the 200 BeV particle accelerator near Batavia.
The Schless firm has moved its equipment into the Linac site, where groudbreaking ceremonies are to be held Sunday, December 1, 1968.
John Trommershausser, manager, administration and finance of DUSAF, the joint venture concerned with architect-engineer requirements for the Laboratory, said that bids for construction were received from 12 general contractors. The bids, he said, ranged from a high of $2,672,365 to the Schless low bid of $1,818,000.
The Schless Construction Company was founded in 1925. It is headed by Robert M. Schless, son of the founder.