LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence is conducting the school’s first comprehensive facilities study in 10 years.

The Lawrence Journal World reports crews analyzed the school’s 40 buildings this fall, and the completed report is expected early next year. Stephen Prue, executive assistant to Haskell President Venida Chenault, says the report will advise officials on future planning on the campus.

According to Prue, they are trying to determine which of the facilities can be updated and which ones are obsolete.

Prue says about $4 million in renovation and maintenance projects this year caught the school up on “a good share” of deferred maintenance.

Representatives of the consulting firm hired to do the study are collecting data on everything from traffic to topography to other infrastructure such as parking.

Prue says the university needs a new science, technology, engineering and math facility with updated information technology capability, and building issues such as foundation and settling problems need to be addressed.

“Easily we could spend $25 million on that building alone, and we need it desperately,” Prue said.

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Information from: Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World, http://www.ljworld.com