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PREPARED STATEMENT OF Don I. Phillips 

 Executive Director, GUIR Roundtable 

 National Academy of Sciences 

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• Forty percent of the top 100 research universities 

 reported the need for more research space. 



• From 25 percent of mathematics departments to 45 

 percent of engineering departments need additional 

 space; 34 percent of the agricultural science 

 departments reported such need. 



• Only 27 percent of all research space was considered 

 suitable for use in the most scientifically 

 sophisticated research ; 34 percent was effective for 

 most uses; 23 percent required limited renovation; 13 

 percent required major renovation; and 3 percent 

 required replacement. 



• 49 percent of research space in the agricultural 

 sciences requires repair, renovation, or replacement — 

 -the highest percentage among all fields. 



• NSF estimates that the total cost of performing all 

 needed repair and renovation of existing academic 

 research space is in the range of $6.8 billion to $8.1 

 billion. 



• Owing to methodological difficulties in collecting 

 survey data, NSF provides no current estimates of the 

 total need, either in terms of space or dollars, for 

 construction of new facilities. On the basis of 

 anecdotal evidence, however, a conservative estimate of 

 the cost for needed new construction would be equal to 



