02-07-2013, 03:41 AM
The building planned will be 'fancy' to some extent...but SHOULD be (there in lies the rub) cheaper than the current arrangements of portables & high office rent (although based on the past, the portables will probably be permanent additions to the campus...) I really think that this article may have been written more by Pezzuto as a cash influx measure, as if the money was sooo tight I doubt his offices would have been where they were, and would have been in a small old portable...
I am going to take a wild stab that you may not have been on campus in the last few years... the changes that have been made since 2008 are way more than this one building...
UH-Hilo campus has added a student life center, new bookstore, and a Paley statue (I like some of his work...just do not think it captures UH-Hilo, Hilo or Hawaii... but like most art...it is to each)
All of this along with building the new administration buildings, adding the Hawaiian language college building (which has been in portable buildings for way over a decade) and is finishing the framing up of 3 new dorms (which I personally question the total use of wood framing on those HUGE buildings...the TENTING costs will be huge on each of the 3!) along with installing solar panels on just about everything (last year the campus electric bill was over $500,000 OVER THE BUDGET!)
I am going to take a wild stab that you may not have been on campus in the last few years... the changes that have been made since 2008 are way more than this one building...
UH-Hilo campus has added a student life center, new bookstore, and a Paley statue (I like some of his work...just do not think it captures UH-Hilo, Hilo or Hawaii... but like most art...it is to each)
All of this along with building the new administration buildings, adding the Hawaiian language college building (which has been in portable buildings for way over a decade) and is finishing the framing up of 3 new dorms (which I personally question the total use of wood framing on those HUGE buildings...the TENTING costs will be huge on each of the 3!) along with installing solar panels on just about everything (last year the campus electric bill was over $500,000 OVER THE BUDGET!)