Window work resumes at courthouse

Henry Millman, in foreground, slides the bottom part of the frame into place as Jeff McMinn, left, and Dakota Chrisenberry push in the top portion. Window installation at the Cole County Courthouse and annex continues as installers from the Wilson Group place the arch-shaped window frame in a third floor corner office Monday afternoon.
Henry Millman, in foreground, slides the bottom part of the frame into place as Jeff McMinn, left, and Dakota Chrisenberry push in the top portion. Window installation at the Cole County Courthouse and annex continues as installers from the Wilson Group place the arch-shaped window frame in a third floor corner office Monday afternoon.

A Cole County contractor is resuming installation of more than 400 windows at the Courthouse and Courthouse Annex.

The Wilson Group of Greenwood resumed work after receiving a needed shipment of materials, County Facilities Manager Greg Camp said.

The county questioned the work shortly after it began in April, requiring some windows to be reinstalled.

Camp had noticed in April several of the windows had not been put in to the required specifications.

"There were problems with how outside receptor fit in the hole," he said Monday. "They were off on some cuts."

Last November, the Wilson Group was the low-bidder on the project at $861,405.

Camp said he believes the contractor is still in line to meet its Oct. 31 contract deadline.

Courthouse windows were installed wrong in the mid-1970s, but the effort to get new ones didn't come until the past few years when continued water leaks around the windows were leading to other structural problems.

The job requires two different types of windows: "curtain wall" windows in the annex and regular household windows in the courthouse.

The windows come from Manko Window Systems in Manhattan, Kansas, and Quaker Windows in Freeburg.