UW worker dies when loading lift collapses

Published: April 17, 2013
Tags: accident, Kohl Center

A University of Wisconsin-Madison maintenance worker is dead after a loading dock lift fell on him in Madison.

Hole in one

Published: April 6, 2012
Tags: Brad Reuter, Findorff, Harnack, J.H. Findorff & Son, Kohl Center, LaBahn Arena, Sean Gullickson, UW-Madison

J.H. Findorff & Son’s Brad Reuter (front) fills a hole with epoxy Tuesday while Sean Gullickson sets a bolt while securing a header that will serve as a connection between the LaBahn Arena and the Kohl Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

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 [...]

Editorial cartoon 

Published: November 19, 2010
Tags: cartoon, ice arena, Kohl Center, Madison

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 [...]

UW-Madison hockey rink plans in jeopardy

Paul Snyder paul.snyder@dailyreporter.com A shortfall in private donations threatens to put a $27 million University of Wisconsin-Madison hockey project on ice. “We’re not going to move forward on this project until we have a funding source in place,” said Gary Brown, UW-Madison’s director of campus planning and landscape architecture. “We’re committed to the designs we’re [...]