SCUP's 48th Annual, International Conference

240 Days Concept to Groundbreaking—Gonzaga New University Center
Presented by: Matthew Bohannon, Senior Project Manager, Brailsford & Dunlavey; Alec Holser, Partner, Opsis Architecture
A design-build challenge for a new 170,000 square foot university center from request for quotation (RFQ) to ground-breaking in 240 days. The detailed program, proprietary meetings, and collaborative guaranteed maximum price (GMP) development process maximized innovation while ensuring broad stakeholder input.

A Collaborative Process for Creating Vision With Success Factors
Presented by: Lynnette Bush Clouse, Senior Project Manager, Design & Construction, Ohio University-Main Campus; Joan Tepe Wurtenberger, Champlin Architecture
Outline a thorough design/programming process using a collaborative approach involving multiple users and administration members to develop a concise vision with agreed-upon project success factors for Ohio University's Patton College of Education.

Capital Planning Best Practices To Improve Decision Making
Presented by: Gerry W. Devine, Senior Principal, Strategic Management, Program & Project Management Practice Area, Stantec Inc.
Today’s fiscal environment requires planners to leverage existing capital assets and alternate sources of funding to get new capital projects approved by using best practices to plan, fund, and successfully implement new ideas while managing risks.

Cultivating Integration: Urban Farming on a Medical School Campus
Presented by: Susan L. Johnson, Director, Office of Health Promotion, Medical University of South Carolina
A half-acre urban farm is developed on a medical university campus and thrives in spite of an uncertain economic climate and skepticism among some stakeholders. We outline planning, programming, design, sustainability, and integration into the organization.

Design Led Innovation: Is the D-School the New B-School?
Presented by: Stephen A. McDowell, Principal, BNIM Architects; Robert A. Simmons, Associate Vice Chancellor - Administration, University of Missouri-Kansas City
The new Bloch Hall supports the school’s vision to develop the next generation of purposeful, entrepreneurial, and innovative business leaders. Inspired by the d-school model, a design-led innovation experience will differentiate the pedagogy of the new facility from any other b-school.

Guiding an Integrated Approach to High-Value Capital Projects
Presented by: Douglas P. Anderson, Vice President for Finance and Administration, Hamline University; Angela Watson, Principal, Shepley Bulfinch
With a down economy and stakeholders with divergent views, how do you build consensus and deliver a high-value facility? How can an inclusive process create a facility no one thought they could afford and no one today can imagine living without?

High Performance Teams—UCSD Biomedical Research Building II
Presented by: Dan Fauchier, Executive Vice President, The Realignment Group; Craig Swenson, Project Director, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
University of California, San Diego challenged the design and construction team to make it a priority to focus on teamwork and partnering. Our challenge was to develop a high performing team and take partnering to a new level.

How Small Business Student Consultants Bridged Town/Gown Relations
Presented by: Lexie Banks, Westminster College (Utah); Annalisa S. Holcombe, Associate Provost for Integrative & Community Based Learning, Westminster College (Utah)
Town/gown relations are often reactive—complaints about parking and student parties can hinder community programming. The Student Consultant Program placed our brightest students in local businesses to complete high-impact, consultant-level work, creating an ongoing positive public perception.

Impact of Space Design on Student Satisfaction and Success
Presented by: Nasrin Fatima, Assistant Provost for Institutional Research & Effectiveness, SUNY at Binghamton; Couper G. Gardiner, Founder, m.Arch
With student satisfaction and success linked, students' satisfaction should align campus space decisions and best design practices. SUNY at Binghamton's 2003 and 2012 surveys report the integration of research with a decade of physical changes on campus.

Opposites Attract—Blending One-Stop With Athletics and Event Space
Presented by: Joeseph Baldwin, Architect, Opsis Architecture
A blended facility at the campus front door combines enrollment services with athletics and event space to create a campus immersion experience at Maricopa County's Chandler-Gilbert Community College.

Powerful Partnerships: Campuses Transforming With Community
Presented by: Robert Francis, Vice President, University Facilities, Drexel University; Amy Kohn, Senior Planner & Associate, Goody Clancy
How can institutions most effectively implement plans addressing the opportunities and challenges of the community districts around them? How should they form the right action and investment partnerships for their culture and context with developers, community leaders, or government?

Re-inventing Community—Oberlin College's Green Arts District
Presented by: Stephen A. McDowell, Principal, BNIM Architects; Steven Varelmann, College Architect, Oberlin College
The Oberlin Green Arts District (GAD) is the heart of a regional plan to transform Oberlin College into a model post-carbon community. A laboratory for promoting innovation in arts, sciences, and sustainable design, the GAD will transform the way we learn.

Renewing Campus Heritage—Linking Historic Assets With Strategic Needs
Presented by: Thomas P. Huf, Senior Education Facilities Planner, University of Massachusetts Amherst
How do you assess historic building facilities for which new uses and commitments to capital funding are difficult to secure? We demonstrate the value of a rapid, comprehensive assessment process in supporting campus facilities and master plans, transforming underutilized properties into valuable campus assets.