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This study investigated academic program prioritization among 20 institutions, identifying factors driving change and comparing approaches with results among completed institutions. Strategic intent had the strongest correlation with outcomes. Leadership engagement, institutional readiness, and overall process influenced outcomes.

Furthering its commitment to sustainability, the University of Virginia aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by incorporating a transportation demand management plan into its grounds plan. Our challenge was to develop a plan that best meets the transportation needs of the university and surrounding community while supporting UVA's mission and strengthening town-gown ties.

The University of Saskatchewan created a collaborative implementation model involving 40 administrators and faculty members for its second integrated plan. Learn about the theory behind the model, the resources and supports provided, and the evaluation of the model.

Challenge: Using a modular building with limited time and budget, create a state-of-the-art integrated educational simulation environment meeting current needs while enabling future growth. Solution: Employ an interactive, collaborative planning approach soliciting broad input while focusing on a common goal.

Integrating the pedagogical goal of using restored landscape as a "living laboratory" with the technical, regulatory, and funding challenges associated with ecological restoration on three campuses possessing a rich campus landscape heritage.

Faculties at the University of Technology, Jamaica were required to demonstrate relevance and overall sustainability of their academic programs after reduced public subventions. Challenging and changing the traditional costing and pricing models contributed to positive return on investment.

In 2008, Clemson University enacted the Sustainable Energy Policy to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent before 2020. To substantiate this goal, Clemson built Lee Hall III, a building that will create as much energy as it consumes. The building teaches sustainability by example.

Adoption of the revised 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design was required by March 2012. This poster presentation will cover these updates to the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and answer any questions about implementation of the new standards.

A compressed design schedule meant traditional time allocated to schematic design was reduced. A robust tool was developed, enabling the design team and facilities personnel to assess the engineering systems based on economic value, energy performance, and sustainable measures.

How to achieve an integrated master plan vision for a demonstration project modeled on agricultural-based living, learning, and working, while optimizing the educational, sustainable food production, residential, tourism, research, and transportation elements of the program.

Loop U challenged us to forge a new community of students, educators, and businesses in downtown Chicago. Innovative cultural events, business expos, and integrated online social networks leverage the resources of town and gown in unprecedented, mutually beneficial ways.

The diminishing role of the state has required new space utilization values that hold the promise of reducing costs while optimizing revenue streams. New utilization paradigms, however, can clash with historical attitudes toward space-creating policy and implementation challenges.

The Tift College campus lay vacant for a decade after the dissolution of the college until it was revived by a massive rehabilitation project involving 17 historic buildings that converted the campus into a residential academy and headquarters for a state agency.

As an architectural project type, simulations centers are still relatively new, and the establishment of standards, best practices, and cost models is still in process. The poster will address the peculiarities of project budgets for Simulation-Based Learning Environments.

The challenge was to renovate a 1932 astronomy building for a new Center for Environmental Sciences with the hope to be the greenest science facility ever and the nation’s first LEED Platinum laboratory in a historic building.

The Living Building Challenge: deliver a net zero energy, waste, and water building for an educational campus.

In an effort to encourage students towards better graduation results, new types of activity and learning spaces were designed, and a striking transformation to open, multi-use collaborative environments was achieved.

American University, faced with the complex challenges of unifying diverse objectives of community groups and city agencies on a highly controversial project, utilized an integrated, principle-driven, facilitated process resulting in a plan that was ultimately endorsed by all stakeholders.

Have you ever been involved in a planning project only to find you have not engaged all the right people? This online user-satisfaction survey tool provides quick input of all stakeholder opinions, providing a map to build consensus toward maximizing performance.

The plan seeks to improve quality of life for students and educators. By considering the project through the lens of "decarbonization," designers see interrelationships between systems, people, and activities. Bundling buildings will improve energy and quality of life on campus.