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As one of the appendices to the WASC preparatory report, there is a listing of every capital project – any new building or major renovation – begun or completed from 2000-2010. In total, there are 103 projects listed, ranging from the “Wilbur Hall Kitchen and Servery Renovation” to the new Knight Management center. Fully 57 of the projects involved the construction of new buildings or significant expansion of existing facilities. This means that, on average, Stanford has added over five buildings per year over the past decade (we’ll assume that the newly begun and as yet uncompleted buildings are cancelled out by the completions that were carryovers from last decade), with another 4.5 buildings receiving significant renovations each year. What’s going on?
To be sure, some of these projects may not attract as much notice – did you catch the epic Escondido Village Mid-Rise Seismic Renovations or the classic Boswell Fish Facility Renovation? – but it’s incredible how fast Stanford continues to grow and does a lot to explain why I sometimes think that we should go ahead and just buy some of our own chain-link fencing, instead of using all of those rent-a-fences.
