U. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh to Add First Building in Almost 40 Years

The center will house a college, some departments, and dozens of classrooms and labs. (U. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh image)

This Friday the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh will break ground on a $48-million academic center. At 191,000 square feet, the building brings the university back into construction mode in a big way: Oshkosh has not put up an academic building since 1971.

The center, which was designed by VOA, a Chicago architecture firm, will include dozens of classrooms and labs and two lecture halls, and will house the College of Business and five liberal-arts departments.

The center is shooting for a LEED gold rating, which may save the university more than $180,000 in energy bills each year, according to The Reporter, a newspaper in nearby Fond du Lac. Oshkosh is giving top billing to the project’s green aspects and their effect on the local economy. Campus officials estimate that the construction will employ some 2,000 people.

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