Fluno Center for Executive Education

The Executive Education Center facilitates business education programs for the Business school while providing a quality, national, educational/conference facility focused on non-degree, business outreach education. The Center is located at a prominent entry point acting as the gateway to the University designed to be architecturally compatible with the campus' vernacular. The Fluno Center contains classrooms, administrative offices, dining and kitchen facilities, an audio/visual delivery system, business center, and a residence facility consisting of 100 private suites. A 300-car below-grade parking garage will enable users to park on site.

The classrooms and conference facility include multi-media presentation and distance learning capabilities that facilitate interaction between professionals and instructors. The media-on-call design provides a comprehensive educational technology delivery system linking all educational spaces and guest rooms to the campus information network while linking to global satellite transmissions.

Project Information

Building Owner:

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Owner Contact:

Andrew Policano, Dean

Building Location:

Madison, WI UNITED STATES

Project Type:

New Construction

Principal Building Function:

Executive Education

Project Delivery Method:

Construction Management

Project Timeline

Sep 1997	Planning Start
Nov 1997	Design Start
Sep 1998	Construction Start
Feb 2000	Completion
Last known status: Completed

Project Cost:

$24,000,000

Construction Cost:

$20,800,000

Cost Per Sq. Ft:

$129

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Business School
Cafeteria
Conference Room
Education
Education: Administration
Education: Classroom
Education: Distance Learning
Education: Multimedia
Parking Structure

Total GSF:

120,500

Total NSF:

93,000

Efficiency:

77%

Building Population:

760

People Density:

316 gsf/person

Special Equip:

Kitchen

Structure/Foundation:

Cast-in-place concrete in concrete spread footings

Project Team

Architect - Design

Ellerbe Becket

Architect of Record

Zimmerman Design Group

Builder

J.H. Findorff & Son, Inc.

Construction Management

Hammes Company

Consultant

Stewart Design Associates Inc.

Consultant - Audio Visual

Kvernstoen Kehl Associates

Consultant - Civil Engineer

Graef Anhalt Schloemer and Associates Inc.

Consultant - Landscape Architect

Ken Saiki Design

Consultant - MEP Engineer

Harwood Engineering

Profile Created 03/31/2001

Last Updated 02/08/2007

About the Reported Cost Figures

The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments.

Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.

Fig. 1

Fluno Center for Executive Education