Iowa City, Iowa — The Board of Regents has approved millions of dollars for the replacement of windows in the bridge between the Stead Family Children’s Hospital and the John Pappajohn Pavilion on the University of Iowa campus.
UI senior vice president for finance and operations, Rod Lehnertz, says the windows have cracked, delaminated and developed blemishes.
He says they are still trying to determine who is to blame for the faulty windows that were installed in 2017.
The work would start in September. The Regents also gave the approval to hire a construction manager to deal with the windows in the Children’s Hospital. While all the windows are being replaced in the bridge, Lehnertz says they don’t know if that is the remedy yet for the hospital windows.
Lehnertz says that the construction manager will see them through the process and determine how to handle the windows, and that will ultimately determine how much is spent on the project. The windows of the Children’s Hospital are where patients view the waves of football fans at Kinnick Stadium after the first quarter of games — a tradition that has gotten nationwide attention. The Regents also gave the go-ahead for the building of a two-level 73-hundred square foot addition to the southeast corner of the State Hygienic Laboratory.
Lehnerts says the new building is needed to handle the larger volume of testing brought on by the pandemic.
The Board of Regents gave approval for the projects at its meeting last week.
