III. Land and Facilities Assessment B. Assessment of Physical Condition of Buildings and Infrastructure The advanced age and deteriorating condition of UM facilities are major concerns. Approximately 40 percent of the total gross square footage is over 40 years of age. Insufficient funding for maintenance and facilities renewal has resulted in enormous deferred maintenance needs and an aging, increasingly obsolete physical plant. More than 41 percent of the total inventory is coded as Condition 3 and 4 (requiring either major updating and modernization or major remodeling of the building) as shown in Table 7. It is estimated that an expenditure of more than $500 million would be required to change code 3 and 4 space to code 1 or 2. Table 7 Building Condition Overview Fall 2000 Condition Code No. of Buildings GSF NASF Percent of Total GSF Code 1 (normal maintenance) 199 4,465,306 2,386,876 38.6% Code 2 (minimal renovation) 76 1,588,553 999,008 13.7% Code 3 (major updating) 38 2,072,505 1,322,218 17.9% Code 4 (major remodeling) 68 2,707,390 1,706,972 23.4% Code 5 (removal) 0 0 0 0 Code 6 (planned termination) 78 729,358 569,462 6.3% Total Inventory 459 11,563,112 6,984,536 100.0% The advanced age and deteriorating condition of the campus infrastructure (utilities, roads, parking, landscape, and pedestrian walks) also pose a threat to the fulfillment of the university's mission. Concurrent with the need for new facilities at the university is the need for renovation and renewal of existing infrastructure. Full funding of the facilities renewal program in the annual operating budget is required to reverse current conditions and effect permanent change. Annual facilities renewal funding should be at a level not less than 2 percent of the replacement value of buildings and infrastructure. In January 2002 dollars, achieving this level would require funding of approximately $42 million annually to address all university facilities. Given the research mission and extensive laboratory activity, experts in the facilities renewal field suggest funding should be at as much as 4 percent of the replacement value, which is approximately $84 million for UM. Provision of appropriate and adequate facilities on the University of Maryland, College Park campus is integrally tied to the facilities renewal funding as part of the annual operating budget of the institution. However, rebuilding and maintaining the campus infrastructure cannot be accomplished with operating funding alone. Infrastructure funding must also be provided in the annual capital budget. The university has entered into a 20-year agreement with a vendor to operate, maintain, and renew its steam and high-voltage electric systems. This agreement will allow the university to renew and expand these systems without impacting the state's capital budget. However, all other infrastructure will continue to require support from the university's capital and operating budgets.

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