Strategic Plans

  • Vermeulens Releases Q2-2017 Market Outlook

    Post date: 
    9-13-2017
    Dateline: 
    Boston

    Vermeulens has released its market outlook report for the second quarter of 2017. Key points include:

  • University System of New Hampshire Selects Sightlines for Facility Condition Assessment and Lifecycle Study

    Post date: 
    7-21-2017
    Dateline: 
    Guildford, Conn.

    The University System of New Hampshire has selected Sightlines to perform a comprehensive Facility Condition Assessment and lifecycle study of core buildings on th

  • Successful Planning of Interdisciplinary Science Facilities

    Think Big Picture Early On; Bricks-and-Mortar Decisions Can Wait
    Post date: 
    4-27-2016

    At the inception of a new interdisciplinary science building, bricks-and-mortar considerations must take a back seat to a big-picture view of issues related to organization, funding, governance, and the long-range vision of the institution. The resolution of these issues early on leads to projects that are more successful—not necessarily in terms of cost savings, but in the essential criterion of aligning a new facility with specific academic strengths and the broader institutional mission.

  • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Expands and Renovates New Brunswick Campus

    Post date: 
    4-9-2016
    Dateline: 
    New Brunswick, N.J.

    Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will begin construction in summer of 2016 on a 100,000-sf project in New Brunswick.

  • Developing a Five-Year Strategic Plan for Accelerated Growth

    Purdue Rapidly Expands College of Engineering to Meet National Goals
    Post date: 
    3-16-2016

    In order to increase capacity, improve student/faculty ratios, and boost space utilization by 150 percent, Purdue University’s College of Engineering developed a five-year strategic plan for increasing efficiency and space on the College’s main campus. The plan—which was driven by the need to meet the goal of a 30 percent growth in engineering faculty and staff, along with growth of graduate and undergraduate students—combines a mix of strategies including renovation, portfolio rebalancing, and new construction.

  • The "New Rutgers": A Troika of Facilities, Finance, and Research

    Newly Empowered Facilities Group Is Strategic Partner in Largest Higher Ed Restructuring in U.S. History
    Post date: 
    12-16-2015

    In the largest higher education restructuring in the nation’s history, the facilities group at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, was elevated to a leadership role, taking its place alongside the offices of finance and research as part of an administrative troika whose heads now report directly to the president. The strategic alignment among these three functions was instrumental in allowing Rutgers to meet a legislative mandate that saw the university grow to 27 million sf in 1,009 buildings with a $3.7 billion operating budget and five different campuses in less than a year.

  • Computational Biology Poses New Design Challenges for Research Facilities

    Exponential Growth in Data Gathering Requires Faster, Fluid Strategic Planning
    Post date: 
    11-18-2015

    An explosion in computation and large data set analyses is challenging the nature and processes of translational research, significantly impacting how such institutions plan for space needs. The link between strategic planning, programming, and design is much more dynamic, and requires faster feedback and the development of new metrics to drive value creation through strategic planning.

    "That increase in computation has a significant impact on how we strategically plan for translational research,” says Andy Snyder, AIA, principal/architect at NBBJ.

  • Low EMI Elevator Design Supports Strategic Siting of Research Instrumentation

    Post date: 
    10-13-2015
    Dateline: 
    Los Angeles

    The siting of sensitive instruments in a research facility requires awareness of the electromagnetic field (EMF) environment and the various types and locations of emission sources.

  • Renovation/Utilization Strategies for Program Growth and Productive Collaboration

    UT Austin Increases Capacity without New Construction
    Post date: 
    9-2-2015

    A new master space plan for the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences leverages program adjacencies and shared infrastructure to improve collaborative interdisciplinary research while maximizing space use. This “soft growth” renovation approach allows the college to increase capacity and improve efficiency without demolishing or adding new buildings.

  • Centralized Space Database Improves Strategic and Operational Planning

    University of Michigan Medical School Manages Space as a Total System
    Post date: 
    8-19-2015

    A total systems approach to space management is allowing the University of Michigan Medical School to make better-informed and more objective decisions in planning for growth within 4 million gsf of existing facilities in Ann Arbor, Mich. The space management system—which continues to evolve and expand since its deployment in 2008, and recently became a University best practice—increased annual space productivity by 4.18 percent and generates an estimated yearly savings of $300,000 through improved operational efficiencies.

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