One of the many good things about the society's annual conference is the opportunity to learn from recipients of SCUP's awards, either in formal professional development sessions or more informal settings.

The SCUP's 2011 Excellence Award recipients have been announced. Congratulations to you all.

We're taking this opportunity to once more bring out information about the 2010 recipients, via SCUP's 2010 Tribute to Excellence newspaper. It is a useful resource that some may overlook, as are the web pages about the recipients. 

Bennington College for the Student Center, with Taylor & Burns Architects; also Reed Hildebrand Associates Inc.; The Collaborative Engineers; Acentech; Otter Creek Engineers, Inc.; Ricca/Newmark Design - was a recipient of an Honor Awards in the 2010 SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture for a New Building category.

The charge was to create a Big Room for student social and performance uses; expand the café to increase capacity and life safety; accommodate organized student activities; create a new dining hall and kitchen for daily food service; connect existing buildings into a vibrant social center on the site of a parking lot; improve definition of the campus core while pushing cars to the campus edge ... .

The Big Room is a flexible open space that supports student and campus activities including social and academic gatherings; food service; readings and recitals; dance parties; demountable stage for corner or thrust formats; theatrical sound and light control booth; green room; and adjustable acoustics and daylight with motorized curtain.

The jury said, “ . . . very elegant courtyard . . . planning is significant portion of architecture and vice versa . . . fits nicely in campus plan . . .”

 

Don't miss out on joining nearly 1,500 of your colleagues and peers at higher education's premier planning event of 2010, SCUP–45. The Society for College and University Planning's 45th annual, international conference and idea marketplace is July 10–14 in Minneapolis!

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Here's your SCUP Link to "2010 SCUP 'Triple I' Award Winner: Nanaimo Campus Master Plan – Integrated Planning Process"

Representatives from VIU Nanaimo will be recognized at SCUP–45, and will share their plan and planning process with other SCUPers during a concurrent session.

Here's a link to where you can download the master plan.

The 2010 recipient for SCUP’s Institutional Innovation and Integration Award is Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada for their entry, “Nanaimo Campus Master Plan – Integrated Planning Process.” It was submitted by Ric Kelm, executive director, facilities services and campus development at the university. This award recognizes and honors the achievement of higher education institutions or teams of individuals whose work demonstrates innovative thinking, planning, and implementation in an integrated fashion.

The NCMP involved the work of a dedicated team of VIU staff, faculty, students, external stakeholders, and consultants. This document will maintain a living document format that will continue to encourage the input of the university’s internal and external community and incorporate that input on a 5-year revisit and revise schedule. Facilities Management is seen as the "champion” of the plan and we see it as our responsibility to ensure every development is aligned with the plan.

We wanted to let you know about University Business magazine's Models of Efficiency competition (at the time of this post, we cannot ascertain what the deadline is for applying for this award, but it does sound interesting):

Simply put, a model of efficiency is an administrative practice or procedure that uses technology and smart business processes to provide superior service to students, while optimizing resources.

Apply now, and be recognized nationwide for your institution's unique Model of Efficiency!

We also wanted to remind you of looming deadlines for various SCUP annual awards!

This campus project received a SCUP 2009 Merit Award for Planning for a District of Campus Component. The jury said “ . . . they are very clear in articulating their goals . . . stands above others . . . pretty clever phasing . . . very well thought out . . .” "Many project requirements were considered and five options were prepared. The boldest and most transformative one was chosen to integrate classrooms and labs, promote interdisciplinary thought, and encourage a collaborative, engaging culture . . . The plan transforms the area from a suburban, car-oriented environment to a pedestrian and transit-oriented area by incorporating passive open spaces into a cohesive new landscape and pathway system." Project Team: University of Alabama, and HOK, with Earl Walls Associates now Xnth. The University of Alabama Campus Master Plan is available on line here.