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St. Norbert College Donald J. Schneider Athletic Stadium
De Pere, WI

As a student tuition driven institution, St. Norbert College, located in De Pere, Wis., needed to attract student athletes in effort to grow the student body. To do this, SNC needed a new sports complex that matched their impeccable academics. The former sports complex, built in 1937, was beyond repair. The stadium became such a deterrent that it was not even shown to prospective student athletes. SNC leaders made the decision to both build a new complex and relocate it closer to the campus, all with the allotted donor contributions.

Historical Building Project - The Monroe County Courthouse
located at 112 S Court St, Sparta, WI, it serves as the hub of the Monroe county judicial system.

How to Expedite the Beginning Stages of Your Correctional Facilities Project

The need for expanding or building new correctional facilities in the United States is evident. Just in the last decade many complexes were built and expanded in places like Fairbanks and Bethel, Alaska; Clearfield County, Pennsylvania; Stewart County, Georgia; Buffalo, New York; Billerica, Massachusetts and many more. When embarking on this kind of project, capital asset decisions must be made and questions answered that will help to know whether or not to proceed. This white paper will identify the mistakes made in this process and bring to light a new process in which a team must go through in order to make these decisons.

7 Ways to know Your A/E Really Wants to Save You Money

The real cost of a facility is not in the purchasing of land or the construction materials and labor, which comprise only 15 percent of a facility's life-cycle cost. The real cost of a facility is measured by how much it will cost to operate the facility over 10, 30 or more years. This eBook describes 7 characteristics to help you identify the A/E firms that want to help you lower your costs.

So You Don't Have a Rich Uncle

In the midst of tax caps, funding cuts and aged facilities, county, state and federal prison operators must continue to secure and provide the correct care to an exploding inmate population. Without the correct funding, this becomes immensely difficult. This eBook presents 9 fresh ideas to help operators do more when it seems nothing can be done but beg.

How to Lower Costs Without Putting Staff at Risk

The costs associated with correctional staffing is a vicious cycle that only results in more cost if not accounting for the entire problem. Operators dealing with budget cuts have reduced staff, put a freeze on hiring, reduced salaries and benefits and eliminated pay increases. While looking good in the books, these solutions only solve half the equation and actually add more cost when taking into account injury and stress corrections employees encounter when dealing with the ever-growing inmate population.

For operators who desperately need to reduce staffing costs, this eBook presents sustainable solutions that cut costs without shuffling costs to another budget line item.

Five Correctional Facility Strategies that Cut Construction Costs

The past eight years have seen an incredible growth in the U.S. prison population. Since 2000, State and Federal prison populations have increased an average of 4.1% annually, almost 32% in eight years. If you're involved in prision operations, private or public, then you are well aware of this growth and the challenges it has created on state bugets and State infrastructures. Priority on for both private and public prison operators is finding any way possible to cut costs. In this eBook, we offer five proven strategies for dramatically cutting correctional facility construction costs.