Are you facing the challenges of updating or renovating a mid-century residence hall built in the 1950s onward? Demolishing these facilities and replacing them with new is frequently prohibitive. Many campuses have shifted focus from large-scale housing construction projects and are trending towards sustainable renovation of existing buildings. There is real long-term value in renovating these buildings to achieve financial and business operations success while still incorporating student personal, social, and academic success factors. Join this webcast and gain programmatic, operational, and renovation insight from panelists’ lessons learned in working with mid-century residence halls on their campuses.

There are ways to take advantage of the low hanging fruit options for known tried and true energy efficiency/high ROI opportunities, and meet the dramatically different philosophies and programmatic goals of residential life professionals, as well as the expectations of today’s, and tomorrow’s, college students.

Even with a limited budget, you have multiple options for both systems and aesthetics upgrades. Consider “good, better, and best” options that respond to programmatic and systems upgrades desired by many colleges and universities, and explore a unique grading system to select the option that satisfies both budget and program. This presentation will explore different approaches to common challenges and provide insight into lessons learned on many major university student housing renovation projects. Presenters will provide strategies and recommendations for focusing renovation dollars on areas to maximize impact.

Learning Outcomes From this Webcast:

• Discuss tried and true energy efficiency/high ROI opportunities
• Discover best practices of renovation strategies for those who are starting a renovation or modernization project
• Discuss decision-making processes for making the right decisions with limited resources
• Identify the considerations as you redefine and reprogram your residential hall space
• Discover current best practices you can apply to your campus residential renovation

• Campus housing officers
• Facilities officers and planners
• Architects
• Private developers
• Business officers
• Consultants
• Program planners, and others who are responsible for facilities, building, and sustainability on their campus