Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

Joint West Campus Area Committee Meeting

January 23, 2008

Local Agency Updates

Shorewood- a proposed 70000 Gross Square Feet (GSF) office building has been proposed for the 800 block of University Bay Drive and Marshall Court. The building will be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified and will have three levels of underground parking. Building is still awaiting approval. If all goes well, construction should start sometime in August of 2008 and finish the following fall (2009). Plans for the proposed building will be posted on the Shorewood website: http://villageofshorewood.org/.

City of Madison/UW Campus Updates

Regent Street and South Campus status Report can be found on the city of Madison website: http://www.cityofmadison.com/neighborhoods/rsscPlan/.

Underground work of the West Campus Utilities Project should be finished by fall 2008.

Pedestrian Bike Path is almost finished; there will be an opening ceremony in late spring.

Bio-Chemistry II proposals will be back in Joint SE Campus Committee later this year.

Charter Street Coal Plant is already burning 15% less coal than was previously used. Currently the plant uses around 128000 tons of coal per year; goal is to reduce this usage by 20000 tons of coal per year. A new study will be completed by July; the purpose of this study is to analyze how to update and make the plant more energy efficient. New boilers and burners will be brought to the plant; this opportunity will allow the University to test new fuels and sources of bio-energy such as bio-mass. The first wave of improvements will come no later than 2012. Two public scoping meetings will be held: early spring 2008 and late spring 2008.

School of Medicine and Public Health Faculty Office Building

UW –School of Medicine and UW-Hospital are proposing a faculty office building be built to relieve the over cramped offices currently located in the UW-Hospital; two offices currently being used by staff are actually meant to be Operating Rooms. This proposed building will consist of between 100000-132000 GSF and will be no more than eight stories high. Substantial completion of project will occur by December of 2009. This development is part of the major research and healthcare core in this area. Projected costs are 20-30 million dollars, which is coming from the Medical Foundation Fund. Approval was made to move School of Medicine concept plan to the Shorewood community.