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Other issues are typically unique to institutions and include such
things as parking shortages, wayfinding issues, ADA non‐
compliance, and land planning concerns.
Classroom Quality - An issue that has greatly diminished compared with previous
A decreasing Issue biennia is classroom quality. After several biennia of funding for
classroom improvements, many upgrades in the physical envi‐
ronment and technology have been made to existing classrooms,
and those institutions where new academic buildings are in plan‐
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ning will soon have state‐of‐the art classroom space that will
replace obsolete classrooms. Continued funding of the class‐
room improvements program will ensure that this progress is
maintained or advanced.
Emerging Trends
Emerging Trend: A planning trend that is increasingly a part of project develop‐
Sustainability ment is sustainability; many projects are seeking LEED™ certifica‐
tion, and for all projects sustainability is part of project imple‐
mentation. UW System places particular emphasis on those as‐
pects of sustainable design that will provide the greatest bene‐
fits: energy efficiency, ease of long‐term operations, and long‐
term adaptability for reuse.
Emerging Trend: A limitation on available amount of General Fund Supported Bor‐
Funding Limitations rowing relative to identified need has resulted in an increasing
number of projects being deferred, and may result in the need
for short‐term projects that partially address critical current
needs on a temporary basis without providing long‐term solu‐
tions. In order to minimize the amount of space that needs to
be built, and therefore project cost, expected levels of space
utilization are increasing. Investigation of alternative funding
sources continues to be a planning factor.
Recent capital budgets have had a number of projects in which
gift funding has been used as a partial substitute for GFSB, in
order to avoid reductions in project scopes. Recent history has
shown, however, that it has been problematic for the compre‐
hensive institutions to raise adequate gift funding by the time it
is needed for project implementation. Therefore, in the future
the primary use of gift funding for most projects will be as a
source for project enhancements rather than a replacement for
GFSB. Then, if gift funding is not in place by the time of ap‐
proval, the basic project scope will not be compromised. For UW