Renovations renew campus
■ Several university
buildings are being
revamped inside and out.
By Anthony Colman
Staff Reporter
By the beginning of the new mil
lennium, the campuses of the
University of Nebraska should be
looking much different, as several
buildings will be renovated or com
pletely replaced.
In March, Gov. Ben Nelson
signed into law a bill giving the uni
versity the funds needed to pay for
long-neglected building mainte
nance and renewal.
This plan gives $79.5 million in
bonds to the University of Nebraska
to pay for several development and
maintenance projects. This plan is
in addition to last year’s financial
package for the renovation of
Richards Hall.
Aside from the ongoing renova
tions to the Nebraska Union and
Memorial Stadium, which includes
the addition of skyboxes, more
buildings on campus will soon
become hard-hat-only areas.
If skillfully planned and well
carried out, proposed changes could
significantly improve the character
and cohesiveness of the campus.
However, much of the renova
tion work planned for university
buildings has little to do with how
the buildings look from the outside,
but is necessary to catch up with the
chaos and decay of long-ignored
maintenance problems, and to bring
outdated infrastructures, such as
electrical and ventilation systems,
up to date.
Changes also will be made to
finally bring many campus build
ings up to par with accessibility
requirements for the Americans
With Disabilities Act.
Richards Hall will be restored
on the exterior, and interior renova
tions will provide a new, centralized
gallery space, more adequate office
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JIM OSTERBUHR CARRIES buckets of cement used to secure metal poles for
a fence that will be north of Burnett Hall. The fence was being built in
preparation for the building’s renovation.
resources building project, for
about S6.6 million.
Lyman and Bancroft halls will
be demolished and replaced with
one new,building on the site for
about $12.5 million.
John Benson, director of institu
tional research and planning, said
several privately funded projects
also are slated for groundbreaking
within the next couple years. These
new building projects all still are in
planning and fund-raising phases.
They include an addition to
ronment in which to work and live.
As so many projects still are in
their early planning stages, it’s diffi
cult to determine yet just what the
cumulative physical effect of so
much new construction will be on
the university campuses.
With luck, future changes will
be planned to create a stronger cor
relation among individual parts and
an improved working relationship
between campus and city.
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and instruction spaces and an eleva
tor. This project is planned for $8.5
million, and renovations ought to
begin late summer or early fall.
Most projects funded under the
deferred maintenance bill are still in
planning stages, and are slated to be
underway within the next two years.
Facility Planner David Peterson
said Love Library South will be ren
ovated at a cost of $21.6 million.
Love South will be fitted with
updated air conditioning and venti
lation systems to alleviate the prob
lem of materials rapidly deteriorat
ing because of poor storage climate.
This project is slated to begin
around July 1999.
Avery Hall will be renovated to
create a new home for mathematics,
engineering and science. This pro
ject is expected to cost about $10.7
million, and will commence around
the end of 1999.
The infrastructures of Hamilton
Hall w'ill be upgraded at a cost of
$ 12.5 million.
Biochemistry Hall on East
Campus will be demolished and
replaced with a new natural
Marvin anu Virginia Schmid Law
Library on Hast Campus, and anoth- /
er addition to the south end of the
Walter Scott Engineering Complex
on City Campus.
A very prominent new addition
will be the construction of a new
Mary Ricpnia Ross Film Theater, in
conjunction with the construction
of a new visitors center for the uni
versity.
Under current plans, these two
projects will be housed in separate
buildings joined by a common atri
um, located at 13th and R streets
next to the Temple Building. This
project still is in planning, with
fund raising under way to pay for
the visitors center.
As a part of the university’s
expansion beyond campus bound
aries, the old Security Mutual build
ing on Centennial Mall has been
purchased and awaits more funding
for renovation into a new home for
the College of Journalism and Mass
Communications.
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and faculty at the university can
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