New academic facility planning and space management initiatives are being shaped by changing academic priorities, and a very different higher education future is on the horizon.
At the University Facilities 2025 conference you’ll get the capital project and space management data, metrics, and decision-making rationales you’ll need for expanded facility flexibility, shared resources, improved space utilization, hybrid learning and work, reduced costs, improved recruitment, improved sustainability, and new avenues for financing and funding of capital projects.
PLUS! This special pre-conference course on April 27th:
Fundamentals of Space Planning and Space Management for Higher Education
Make this conference a top priority planning event for your space planning, capital project, campus real estate, FM, and financial stakeholders to set in motion your institution’s visioning, decision-making, and plans of action for a transforming world of higher education involving:
- High space utilization models and metrics
- Values-based strategic facilities planning: Wellness, equity, collaboration, sustainability
- Flexibility concepts for long-term building viability
- Cost effective renovation of underutilized and outdated space
- Strategies for educational space: Hybrid, multiple modalities, technology
- Faculty and staff officing: Hybrid workstyles and free-address workspace
- Implications of artificial intellgence (AI) on campus plans, infrastructure, and space
- Construction costs and reduction of capital expenditures
- Facility investments for student experience and student engagement
- Facility plans and features that improve recruitment and enrollment
- Facility features for campus wellness and health
- Physical consolidation/centralization plans for academic programs and/or campuses
- Plans and features that engage and integrate the campus and public communities
- Master planning strategies for program location, utilization of facilities, and campus space
Who should attend?
This conference is open to all college and university employees, consultants, and service providers with interest in the planning, design, construction, and operation of college and university facilities and campuses. This includes capital project teams, project managers, facility and space planners, facility managers, construction managers, architects, engineers, financial officers, capital planners, and university administrative staff. Product vendors must be sponsors or exhibitors to attend.