With students becoming increasingly anxious about the state of our world and its environment, institutions nationwide are making an increased effort to emphasize sustainability in everything they do – especially when building new facilities.
Looking to construct a new $8 million, 25,000-square-foot facility to serve as the preeminent structure on its planned Innovation Campus opening April 2014, UW-Milwaukee entrusted Kapur to make the development as ecofriendly as possible. Having spent decades building a reputation for effectively incorporating these alternatives into site and stormwater management designs, Kapur’s site design team quickly got to work on the LEED Silver-certified project that ultimately made the UW-Milwaukee Foundation’s long-range vision a reality.
Sustainable landscaping, natural stormwater management, infiltration basins, and ecological habitat creation were all incorporated into the project, which required the completion of an extensive drainage design for its new impervious surfaces, as well as all runoff from a 75-space parking lot and accompanying driveways and access roads to be directed toward parking drains connecting six new infiltration basins north of the development.
Following months of extensive coordination with habitat specialists, overall park infrastructure and utility consultants, and the UW-Milwaukee Foundation, the opening of The Accelerator Building allowed the region’s academic, medical, and business organizations to collaborate on projects that work to move science to application and commercial uses.
With researchers from UW-Milwaukee, the Medical College of Wisconsin, Concordia University Wisconsin, and other academic institutions, The Accelerator Building encourages academic research with commercial potential by bringing together industry partners, startups, and researchers to increase patents, earn technology licenses, create new job opportunities through spinoff companies, and promote technology transfer and new collaboration with the business community.
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