On today’s program, an interview with Kathleen Moore, Director of School Facilities Planning with the California Department of Education. What’s 
happening with projects that have applied for funding in this bad economy? What is the state of projects that have been green-lighted?
MADISON, Wis. — Officials from the newly-opened Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and Morgridge Institute for Research describe the new structure as very transparent.
“You can basically see through it — you can’t hide in it,” said Janet Kelley, communications director for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the organization funding part of the new public-private twin buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California business leader and UCLA alumni has made the second largest financial gift the university has ever received. Meyer Luskin and wife Renee donated $100 million to the university.
Luskin, who earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA in 1949, is passionate about the school’s role as a public resource and agent for social mobility.
SAN FRANCISCO — The financing plans at the new 878,000-square foot University of California — San Francisco Medical Center called for obtaining $700 million in external loans and an additional $600 million from philanthropic donations — unthinkable to some in these tough economic times.
Building information modeling, a major university healthcare facilities construction program, and $4 billion in maintenance and operations funding approved in Washington were among the top School Construction News stories in 2010.
