If it seems as though the entire campus is under construction this semester, that’s because, well, it is.
UWM’s “big build” was sparked three years ago when the state legislature approved $240 million in building bonds to expand UWM facilities. Today, six substantial projects are getting underway, with one – the downtown building that now houses the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health – already completed and in use.
On Oct. 24, UWM will break ground on the first new academically focused building on our East Side campus in nearly two decades – the 150,000-square-foot Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex (KIRC). The groundbreaking will be at 3 p.m. in the southeast corner of Lapham Hall.
Check out the complete roster of UWM building projects below.
School of Freshwater Sciences
On June 6, UWM broke ground on a 100,000 square-foot addition to the existing WATER Institute, transforming the structure into the new graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences harbor campus. The new space will house research support facilities, laboratories, teaching spaces and collaboration spaces. The $53 million project is scheduled to be completed by December 2013.
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