The construction of Integrated Sciences Building 2 would give the University of Kansas the ability to retire some campus buildings with growing deferred maintenance problems, said KUâs Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWitt in a budget message April 23.
ISB 2 would continue addressing the $213 million in deferred maintenance problems â almost $90 million less than 2018 â that construction of the Central District began to tackle. ISB 2 would also help KU grow, DeWitt said, as the university is facing questions of if and how enrollment and income can increase after coming out of the pandemic.Â
âIt [the Central District] is an asset we need to leverage to grow. It is not, in my opinion, an albatross that I hear many people talk about...and it really was addressing a huge deferred maintenance problem that we still have to address,â DeWitt said in the budget message.Â