Gov. Tony Evers, chair of the Wisconsin State Building Commission, on Friday announced that the commission approved a comprehensive budget adjustment for various University of Wisconsin (UW) projects and authority to construct two projects.
The news comes as Republican lawmakers on the commission last month delayed reallocating over $70 million — which was made available due to other commission-approved projects coming in under budget — toward UW building projects that were likewise already approved by the commission.
The reallocated funding will support the following projects:
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$29 million for an expanded UW–Madison engineering building to address critical infrastructure and facility needs, expand enrollment, degrees, and program offerings, modernize classrooms and instructional and research laboratories, and support its goal of increasing student enrollment by 1,000 in the engineering program;
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$10.5 million for Winther Hall/Heide Hall entry additions and renovations at UW–Whitewater;
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$5.4 million for the completion of Heritage Hall at UW–Stout; and
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A small project funding release to help address a backlog of maintenance and repair projects across the state.
