UW official: Biomass project means jobs

UW-Madison buildings leader to leave for Johns Hopkins

Published: November 18, 2011
Tags: Alan Fish, Charter Street Heating Plant, Microbial Sciences Building, schools, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Madison

The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday its campus buildings administrator is leaving to take a vice president role at John Hopkins University.

Budget hawk circles Camp Randall project

Published: June 22, 2011
Tags: Alan Fish, Badger Performance Center, Barry Alvarez, Building Commission, Camp Randall Stadium, construction manager at risk, David Miller, Dean Kaufert, McClain Center, multiple-prime bidding, R.J. Binau, University of Wisconsin System, UW System, UW-Madison

By James Briggs A state lawmaker warned the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday not to exceed the $76.8 million budget for the Badger Performance Center or it will lose his support. State Rep. Dean Kaufert, R-Neenah, said he was worried the university was maxing out its capacity to build projects for the athletics department. Kaufert’s [...]

UW power plant savings in question

Published: May 24, 2011
Tags: Alan Fish, biomass, Charter Street Heating Plant, Fred Risser, John Harrod, Madison, power plant, Scott Walker, The Boldt Co., University of Wisconsin-Madison

By James Briggs When Gov. Scott Walker axed a biomass boiler from a planned $251 million renovation of Madison’s Charter Street Heating Plant, the governor announced savings of $100 million for taxpayers. That number is wrong, said John Harrod Jr., the University of Wisconsin-Madison physical plant director who is in charge of the Charter Street [...]

UW arena raises bidding trend questions

Published: April 21, 2011
Tags: Alan Fish, David Miller, Dean Kaufert, Eagle Construction, Findorff & Son, J.H. Findorff & Son, Joe Daniels, Joe Daniels Construction, Kohl Center, LaBahn Arena, Maternowski, Randy Balko, University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW-Madison

By James Briggs State officials disagree over whether a University of Wisconsin-Madison project that drew bids well beyond the anticipated cost signals the end of the rock-bottom bidding era or an example of poor estimating. The state’s Building Commission in October approved the $28.3 million construction of LaBahn Arena, a hockey and swimming venue slated [...]

Lawmakers boycott state Building Commission meeting

Published: March 16, 2011
Tags: Alan Fish, Building Commission, Michael Ellis, Pocan, Risser, University of Wisconsin System, UW System

By James Briggs It was a curious time to be late for a meeting. Alan Fish, vice chancellor of facilities for University of Wisconsin-Madison, on Wednesday walked into the state Building Commission meeting at the Capitol after the meeting was well under way. Fish and the University of Wisconsin System had a crucial last-minute agreement [...]

UW System seeks more from state for building projects

Published: March 15, 2011
Tags: Alan Fish, budget, Building Commission, capital budget, Division of State Facilities, Health and Human Performance building, Jeff Plale, Maternowski, Nursing Science Center, River Falls, Scott Walker, University of Wisconsin System, UW Board of Regents, UW System

By James Briggs The University of Wisconsin System is pushing for a pair of key projects that were snubbed in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed capital budget, but state lawmakers are waiting for word from Walker’s office on how to proceed. The state Building Commission meets at 1 p.m. Wednesday to approve the $1.1 billion capital [...]

UW System braces for budget cuts

Published: November 29, 2010
Tags: Alan Fish, budget, Charter Street, Charter Street Heating Plant, Cullen Werwie, Dean Kaufert, Kate Sullivan, Madison, Scott Walker, University of Wisconsin, UW System

By James Briggs The University of Wisconsin System expects to receive a smaller piece of Wisconsin’s budgetary pie next year, likely resulting in fewer campus construction projects around the state. The UW System took a 5.2 percent decrease in taxpayer support in the 2009-11 state budget, and Gov.-elect Scott Walker wasted little time warning the [...]

UW-Madison’s proposed ice arena skids through Building Commission (UPDATE)

Published: November 17, 2010
Tags: Alan Fish, Barry Alvarez, Building Commission, common council, ice arena, Kanavas, Kaufert, Kohl Center, Madison, Madison Joint Southeast Campus Area Committee, Mary Berryman Agard, Plan Commission, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Urban Design Commission, UW-Madison, Verveer
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By James Briggs Kohl Center Addition: Hockey/Swimming Facility for University of Wisconsin, 601 W. Dayton St., Madison, Dane County A pair of Republican state senators expressed concerns Wednesday about the timing of a University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to build a $27.7 million ice arena that would serve as a practice facility for the school’s men’s [...]