UW-Madison finally breaks ground on hard-won engineering building

UW-Madison finally breaks ground on hard-won engineering building

University officials and industry leaders have wanted the building for years, but it got caught up in, among other things, DEI negotiations.

Groundbreaking ceremony held for engineering center at UW

UW-Madison leaders celebrated the start of construction for the Philip Levy Engineering Center with a groundbreaking ceremony.

A Great Day for Engineering: UW–Madison Breaks Ground on the Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center - Wisconsin Technology Council

A six-year process reached a celebratory point Thursday, April 17, when ground was broken for construction of the Phillip A. Levy Engineering Center on the UW-Madison campus.  The 395,000-square-foot building – named by brothers and UW-Madison alumni Marvin and Jeffrey Levy in memory of their older brother – will occupy a prominent 2.5-acre site in the heart of the engineering campus. It will cost $420 million to build, with more than half of th…