Right Column
UC Front-End Accountability Prop 1D
Renewal: There is a broad need for renewal on many campuses. UC Berkeley was founded in 1873 and UC Los Angeles in 1912, and each still has significant structures that were constructed in the early years of the last century. In the period of enormous growth after World War II, both of those campuses expanded substantially, and seven more general campuses were founded and grew dramatically. The University still depends heavily on the many buildings and infrastructure systems developed during the growth cycles of the 1950s and ‘60s. The University has approximately 34.9 million gross square feet (ogsf) of existing building space, over 33 percent of the total inventory, that is 40 or more years old, and 8.9 million ogsf that is 60 or more years old. Much of that space is in poor condition and badly in need of renewal and fire and health-safety upgrade, and the problem extends to facilities constructed in the decades of the 1970s and ‘80s. |


