The final report will include strategies for dealing with poverty, environmental degradation, energy and infrastructure development. Pro vice-chancellor Professor Bob Bignall said the campus, which now has more than 1000 students, is expanding to support a range of academic programs including three streams of engineering. Large engineering laboratories with a floor area of 2000 square metres have the latest equipment installed. Other developments include an extension to the Tun Hussein Onn Library, with a new entrance and circulation desk located on the third level of the Monash building. A library annex houses a reading area and a serials room.
Technology are now co-located in a school precinct on the third level.
This includes new offices, two professional suites and a course counselling area. In 2001 it is planned to develop a similar precinct on level 2 for the School of Engineering and Science. The campus administration area and main entrance have also been extensively refurbished, and, in the final stage of this refurbishment, all campus signage is being improved and updated. A warm welcome in Prato The Cathedral of St Stephano in Prato. The chandelier was illuminated and the grand salone of the Palazzo Vaj decorated with plants and flowers for the staging of Monash University's inaugural event in Prato.