FACILITIES PLANNING RECOMMENDATIONS

These archived pages present the Academic Plan adopted by the Board of Trustees in August 2003.

A new academic plan is being formulated. Please check the Academic Plan homepage for updates.

21ST CENTURY UCONN PHYSICAL PLAN PRIORITY RECOMMENDATIONS

The following are recommendations for priority projects during the first four to five years of 21 st Century UConn. Please note that it is assumed that the University will continue to fund Deferred Maintenance (DM) and Equipment at a minimum of $10 million each per fiscal year of 21 st Century UConn. Note that, unlike UConn 2000, 21 st Century UConn does not have the same amount of funding for each fiscal year: it begins with a slow start in FY05, increases to a “bulge” of $125-130 million in FY s 09-11, and then decreases again.

The Academic Plan Task Force was reluctant to assign priorities to all 21 st Century UConn projects in specific timelines because changed circumstances could intervene with priorities that far into the future. Therefore, it is assumed that the projects mentioned below will occur in the earlier parts of the 21 st Century UConn timeline.

Please note that new building projects and renovation projects are addressed separately. The new facilities are specified by name. Since there are a number of renovation projects, the Task Force has indicated the principles that should be used in setting priorities, rather than naming those priorities here. Priority categories include:

• EVERY YEAR
  Continuous funding for Deferred Maintenance and Equipment, including Library acquisitions .

• IMMEDIATE INFRASTRUCTURE NEED
  Finishing North Hillside Road to end at Route 44 (at the earliest possible time).

• NEW BUILDING PROJECTS – in priority order
  ( Note: The top priorities in this categories are hold-over projects from UConn 2000. There is a +/- one-year design phase for many of these projects prior to the beginning of construction. Procurement of significant external gifts for construction purposes could change this priority order .)
  
  1. Complete Biology buildings in the Technology Quadrangle
  
  2. Demolish Arjona and Monteith buildings and replace with appropriate classroom/academic buildings
  
  3. Complete these new building projects as funding becomes available in the 21 st Century UConn program and within the framework of emerging university priorities (not listed in priority order):

• Fine Arts complex, with Third Parking Garage prior to or contemporaneous with Fine Arts construction

• Regional campus building projects identified in 21 st Century UConn.

• Engineering building project

RENOVATION PROJECTS PRIORITIES

These principles for renovation projects are in synchrony with the Operating Principles for Facilities and Physical Plan. As noted above, due to myriad factors affecting which renovation projects should be done first, individual renovation projects are not listed. The principles to be used in deciding the order of renovation projects are:

• Renovation projects should be linked to the overall implementation of the Academic Plan.

• All physical facilities should achieve the minimum standards for effective work environments as articulated in the Operating Principles for Facilities and Physical Plan. The further an existing structure deviates from these articulated minimum standards, the higher its priority for renovation.

• Whenever possible, in order to obtain maximum efficiency, the renovation schedule should be synchronized with other construction or renovation projects occurring in contiguous areas of the campus.