BATON ROUGE — The Louisiana Board of Regents and a company it hired determined that there was a deferred maintenance backlog of $4 billion for higher education facilities in Louisiana.
The company, Gordian, created a construction age profile for buildings located at each institution across the four Louisiana systems: LSU’s, the University of Louisiana’s, Southern’s and LCTC’s.
According to Gordian, the average construction age of buildings in the LSU and University of Louisiana Systems is 64, followed by the Southern University System at 61, and LCTC at 53…