American Family Insurance says it plans to help solve the Madison area’s social problems — as well as foster entrepreneurship — in its new building, Spark, on the Near East Side. Spark, at 821 E. Washington Ave., has eight floors of offices and a ninth floor that houses the building’s mechanical systems. Its special features include a 10,000-gallon rooftop container that will be used to collect rainwater and use it to help heat and cool the building, and sun shades that raise and lower automatically, depending on the amount of sunlight.
Token Springs, 1435 N. Thompson Road, and Meadow View Elementary School, 200 N. Grand Ave., were built to resolve pressing space problems. Because the Sun Prairie Area School District had grown by more than 2,400 students in the past 10 years, six of the district’s seven elementary schools were over capacity before this year.
On August 14, leaders from the company and from University Research Park (URP) in Madison broke ground on a new, 138,000-sq.-ft. building named Innovation One that will serve as Exact Sciences’ corporate headquarters. When complete in early 2020, the building will unite team members and departments currently dispersed across multiple sites in the Madison area.
The Sun Prairie Area School District (SPASD) is celebrating the grand opening of two new elementary schools just before the start of the 2018-19 school year. Token Springs Elementary and Meadow View Elementary Schools will officially be open for “learning” on Aug. 28 and 29.
Hundreds attended Saturday’s dedication of Columbia County’s new Administration and Health and Human Services buildings and the remodeled courthouse, and got a close-up look.
While building an addition to another portion of the UW-Health Hospital, Findorff’s construction work brought joy to a child cancer patient. Their construction site happened to be right outside Hudson’s window.
The Rev. Robert A. Wild, S.J. Commons is the university’s first new residence hall in 50 years. Two residential towers comprise the 890-bed facility, which includes a 24-hour dining hall, a lounge, smart classrooms and study spaces, among other amenities.
On Tuesday, Exact Sciences broke ground on the company’s new headquarters in University Research Park. The new building will be five stories tall and connect to the company’s existing research and development facility. Check out more information here.
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