Category: Program Features

Bringing the project within budget allowed for the 35% design phase to begin.  As such, room sketches was slowly and methodically transitioned into design drawings while entire floor schematic drawings…

After nearly 6 weeks of meetings, intense discussions, and cost reductions (via square footage reductions, equipment reductions or other areas of cost reduction), the Design team successfully brought the project…

After the results from the cost estimation process, we were made aware the project was a whopping 19% over budget.  This marked the beginning of a laborious and at times…

The culmination of the program verification process was submission of a 349-page program verification report which included sketches and data sheets for every room in the facility as well as a…

Another trip was organized for thirteen members the Design Team to tour Jones Dairy Farm (Fort Atkinson, WI) and Lake Geneva Country Meats (Lake Geneva, WI) for reasons very different…

In addition to the normal functions of a University Meat Science Laboratory (USDA inspected meat processing facility from slaughter to further processing, classrooms, and research laboratories designed for meat science…

The Design Team and Meat & Animal Science faculty and staff met 2-3 days per week throughout the fall of 2014 to verify the program and develop room sketches and room data…

The Design Team and UW Meat & Animal Science faculty and staff participated in the first official design meeting for the new meat science facility. This meeting was a Goal-Setting Workshop designed to…

Current projections have the new meat laboratory opening late 2018