Originally Posted by cloneaholic 
Why can't Iowa State utilize its own expertise to help bowl in the football stadium for a fraction of the cost? We have outstanding architecture, landscape architecture, constuction engineering and civil engineering departments at Iowa State. Why don't we use them? I realize that they don't have the necessary equipment and workers to actually do the construction, but it seems like they could provide all the necessary expertise.
Basically, the only thing I can see that the programs at
ISU could actually have done would have been designing it. They wouldn't be able to really schedule it, build it, or do much after the design stage. Even then, I'd leave the design to a Grad Project. Which, in all honesty, I can't say they didn't do that. They easily could have had someone/a class design the look to go for, and then submitted it to a contractor with experience in the field to finalize and take over the project.
