Concurrent Session Proceedings

Proceedings that have been received have been linked to their corresponding title.

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
(CN044) Expanding the Box: University-Community Planning Partnerships for Sustainable Regional Development
 Presented by: Minakshi Mani Amundsen, University Planner, Cornell University

Learn about innovative partnerships between a large land-grant University, multiple municipal jurisdictions and a County working towards a shared vision of their interconnected future. Regional planning initiatives include transportation, housing, comprehensive planning and natural resource conservation. The partnerships better leverage a wide range of resources, professional expertise, and federal, state and local funding to maximize mutual benefits.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Learn about planning coordination across institutional and multi-jurisdictional boundaries
  2. Expand the understanding of campus-community partnerships for local and regional development
  3. Learn how multiple partners leveraged funds for transportation and housing initiatives
  4. Understand how these kinds of partnerships can be applicable to a range of institutions

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU 1.0 unit (N10C44)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
(CN048) How to Build a World Class Brain Repair Research Facility for $50 per Square Foot Through Innovative Thinking and Leveraging Partnerships
 Presented by: Ken R. Burt, Vice President, Finance & Administration, Dalhousie University

Today's difficult economy has resulted in tight capital budgets, meaning universities are challenged to provide space for new initiatives. The Life Sciences Research Institute is a collaborative effort bringing together Dalhousie University, two hospitals, three levels of government, independent researchers and a research commercialization agency to develop an institute that fosters life science research, commercialization and education.  This presentation will provide an overview of the collaborative partnership, the project funding model and the resulting three phase $100 million building, which is scheduled to open in the spring of 2011.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify factors that  accelerate research commercialization opportunities to further a capital project.
  2. Determine successful strategies for collaborative partnerships that help universities and communities address critical space issues and capital funding concerns.
  3. Analyze how leased land in exchange for cash today can provide for a fully-funded, flexible research building down the road.
  4. Demonstrate how to leverage available budgets from partnerships, funded research projects, and commercial agreements to develop momentum for a multi-phased, life sciences complex.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU 1.0 unit (N10C48)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
(CN019) Past, Present and Future Campus: 3 Perspectives on The Journey
 Presented by: Harris S. Band, Director, Physical Planning, Harvard University; Gordon King, Senior Director, Facilities Planning & Management, Suffolk University; Nancy May, Vice President for Facilities, Northeastern University; David L. McIntyre, Principal, Institutional Practice Leader, VHB | Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.

Three institutions with an established and varied history of planning for campus growth and development in Boston will share their experiences and lessons learned over the past 25 years. Senior planning officials representing Harvard University, Northeastern University and Suffolk University will offer their perspective on key planning issues that they have addressed since the 1980’s; summarize contemporary planning issues and current initiatives; and offer “informed insight” on those issues which may emerge in the coming decades.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Illustrate how the evolving mission of the institution impacts the physical growth and development of a campus.
  2. Examine the influence of regulatory processes on the campus master planning process.
  3. Demonstrate how to manage the implementation of a master plan over a long period of time, as the plan is subject to dynamic internal and external forces.
  4. Explore the value and utility of future master plans, how they may vary and in what way be similar to prior plans in response to yet-to-be-determined factors.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU 1.0 unit (N10C19)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
(CN020) Stretching Economic Resources: Finding Synergies and Opportunities Through Adaptive Reuse
 Presented by: Christian J. Ladds, Principal, LLB Architects; Michael J. McCormick, Assistant Vice President, Facilities Management, Brown University; Ron Simoneau, Managing Director, Shawmut Design and Construction
In times of economic distress, many institutions opt to shelve projects and wait out the storm. As Planners, Architects, and Builders, how do you integrate new internal and external data and realities into your strategic approach? For Brown University, while capital projects were revisited, maintaining momentum was essential. This session will explore how one university adapted to depleted financial and staffing resources, embraced their existing campus buildings, and found a way to solve multiple campus issues through adaptive reuse.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Assess campus needs, question assumptions, and move projects forward in the face of a new economic reality.
  2. Analyze the benefits of renovation and adaptive reuse of existing buildings versus new construction.
  3. Explain how to solve gaps in staffing and funding resources through a new form of design/build, customized to suit needs of the institution.
  4. Identify the sequence projects and phases to maximize whole campus savings.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/SD 1.0 unit (N10C20)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
(CN027) Blurring The Boundaries: University High School of Science and Engineering
 Presented by: Alan Hadad, Associate Vice President and Dean of Magnet Schools, University of Hartford; James E. LaPosta, Principal, Chief Architectural Officer, JCJ Architecture
The development of the University High School of Science and Engineering on the campus of the University of Hartford will be traced from its planning grant in 2003 through to the opening of its permanent facility in 2009. This session will explore the challenges, opportunities and benefits demonstrated by the development of this public magnet high school in partnership with a private university, urban and suburban school districts, state agencies and a private foundation.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Explore the process of joint school district/university planning
  2. Investigate the ways that University objectives were preserved through the varied phases of concept and program development, design, value management and implementation
  3. Examine the methods used to supplement a STEM High School curriculum with college faculty and resources
  4. Identify the various funding strategies used to develop this project

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/HSW/SD 1.0 unit (N10C27)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
(CN024) Integrated Planning – Moving the Parts in Unison
 Presented by: Jay V. Kahn, Vice President for Finance & Planning, Keene State College; Laura Seraichick, Chief Information Officer, Keene State College; Karen Stanish, Dr., Keene State College
Keene State College has linked its goals for academic excellence into an annual updating of its strategic plan and functional plans for academic programs, facilities, information technologies, human resources and budget allocations. Thereby, the College maximizes its resource allocations to fulfilling its strategic goals. This bottom-up process encourages departments and constituencies to submit initiatives that are evaluated for contribution towards defined criteria. The College’s planning process incorporates best practices from across the country, providing tools that colleagues can adopt.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Discuss means of aligning mission, goals, initiatives and human and financial resource allocation
  2. Demonstrate the validity of bottom-up constituency based planning processes
  3. Examine the importance of integrating strategic and functional plans
  4. Explore the value of arrticulated and integrated evaluative criteria that are broadly accessible

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU 1.0 unit (N10C24)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
(CN010) Planning and Development of Student Housing: A Data-Driven Approach
 Presented by: Rena Cheskis-Gold, Principal, Demographic Perspectives, LLC; Susan Keller, Assistant Director of Faculty Real Estate, Harvard University; Steven Nason, Director of Residential Real Estate, Harvard University
This session tells the story of how a graduate student housing plan was developed and realized at Harvard University over ten years. From strategy, to research, to internal and external community input, to programming of space, to post-occupancy evaluation -- we demonstrate how a strong backbone of data can be used to make informed decisions about housing.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Define and determine goals of housing plan through analysis of internal Harvard and external community forces, and input from stakeholders.
  2. Choose and gather planning data and test-market new options via: interviews, focus groups, and surveys of students; administrative data analysis; review of complementary reports; input from professionals (e.g., architects, real estate consultants), and peer benchmarking.
  3. Utilize collected data to develop blueprint for strategic plan. Work out staged implementation of strategic plan with appropriate staffing and budget, short term and long-term goals, and smaller and larger target projects.
  4. Develop a regular assessment process to keep track of plan, evaluate its progress, and calibrate it over time.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU 1.0 unit (N10C10)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:30 PM–2:30 PM
(CN006) Well, Well, Well…One Approach to Sustainability Master Planning
 Presented by: David Paul Helpern, President, Helpern Architects; Marc LeBrun, Assistant Director, Engineering Services, Boston College; Joseph A. Mannino, Director - FAC, Columbia University in the City of New York

Many drivers influenced campus planning previously, but sustainability has become a primary focus today. Planning through the lens of sustainability embraces individual buildings as well as the entire campus. In this moderated “roundtable” discussion, panelists will highlight master plans and unique projects at institutions from Manhattan to Maine that have incorporated sustainable systems. In the featured examples, the use of geothermal wells as an alternative energy source emerged as the answer to a number of planning issues.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Discover and consider the value of sustainability as a driver for their own campus master planning.
  2. Evaluate the experiences of several campuses that have incorporated geothermal wells into their master planning processes and assess the pertinence to their own long-range energy plans.
  3. Explain and explore methods to integrate alternative energy systems with existing campus infrastructure before the building process begins and to remedy earlier attempts with limited yield.
  4. Discuss and recognize the benefits of geothermal wells, including land conservation, historic preservation and energy cost savings.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/HSW/SD 1.0 unit (N10C06)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 2:45 PM–3:45 PM
(CN022) 21st Century Growth in The MIT Life Science Cluster
 Presented by: John Martin, Principal, Elkus Manfredi Architects; Michael K. Owu, Director, Real Estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This session examines the extraordinary growth of the life science industry in close proximity to the MIT campus from the years 2000 to 2009. MIT has created an urban real estate environment that attracts the world's leading life science research corporations and institutions. This case study will examine the planning implications and impacts of that highly prized proximity. A timeline of on-campus and off-campus milestones in the formation of this cluster will be presented.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identification of precipitating factors that lead private companies to seek university partnerships.
  2. Examination of the planning metrics of 21st century life science research.
  3. Awareness of the magnitude of economic and environmental implications of partnerships of research universities and private companies.
  4. Appreciation for the importance and implications of off-campus amenities.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/HSW/SD 1.0 unit (N10C22)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 2:45 PM–3:45 PM
(CN035) Fostering Collaborative Learning and Community Building In the Changing Education Landscape
 Presented by: Bradley Lukanic, Principal, Cannon Design; Lori Mazor, Associate Vice President, Global Facilities Planning & Policy, New York University

Colleges and Universities across the academic landscape are facing an emerging national trend towards a customized shift from “Tutor Led” to “Learner Led” student educational experiences. Both educational and social spaces alike planned and programmed today are challenged to be more flexible and versatile to support the multimedia lifestyle of the millennial generation.  As a decade has drawn to a close there have been profound changes to learning environments on colleges and universities over the ten years.  This session will discuss the trends in academic space programming today and explore potential directions going forward into the new decade.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Appraise the changes and opportunities within and the effects on academic learning spaces with the shift to learner led collaborative learning.
  2. Illustrate the students of today that are entering as fall 2010 freshman on Colleges and Universities across the country.
  3. Exploring how the multifaceted role of the learning spaces within academic facilities has changed how students are using these places to acquire and share information and how faculty is engaging students in new ways.
  4. Investigating academic planning approaches of how both programmed and interstitial spaces of buildings and how they are serving as academic community centers that help their users “to discover,” “to learn,” “to investigate” and “to collaborate.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU 1.0 unit (N10C35)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 2:45 PM–3:45 PM
(CN017) Greater Than the Sum of Parts— Responsible Growth Through Incremental Change
 Presented by: Daniel Feldman, Vice President for Capital Projects, Brandeis University; Joan Goodrich, Vice President, Planning & Special Programs, Bennington College; John A. Kett, Associate, Reed Hilderbrand
The campus landscape is one of the defining elements of a school’s identity. Originating with a comprehensive vision for the campus and achieved in large part by consistency of architectural expression, today schools build incrementally on the existing campus form with the guidance of a diverse array of consultants. In difficult times like these we must manage incremental change toward visionary outcomes. This panel considers the role of landscape architects, working at all scales on a range of projects with multiple architects, as consistent advocates for the campus landscape.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Illustrate trends in campus development through the lens of two case studies, specifically focused on demonstrating how traditional models are adjusting to accommodate contemporary institutional needs
  2. Demonstrate an economical means of effecting change on a campus, through the implementation of a series of discrete projects over an extended timeframe, with a coherent and flexible result.
  3. Illustrate the role landscape architects can play in advocating for campus character and spaces across a range of project types and with a range of constituents
  4. Demonstrate how environmental stewardship can become integral to the mission and expression of an expanding campus

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU 1.0 unit (N10C17)

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 2:45 PM–3:45 PM
(CN003) The Essential Partnership: Boards and the Strategic Plan
 Presented by: Jack P. Calareso, President, Anna Maria College

Too often, Boards of Trustees believe that final approval of the institution's Strategic Plan is sufficient. However, most Strategic Plans will only be successfully implemented if the Board has both complete ownership and a full commitment to be actively involved in many areas (not only fund raising). This session will provide a model of a process and strategies to develop Board engagement and ownership of the Strategic Plan and ongoing involvement in the successful implementation of the Plan. The session is based on the actual experience of working with Boards at several institutions.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Discover the acquisition of skills and methodologies to improve community-wide planning on campus.
  2. Explain the acquisition of specific strategies to engage Boards of Trustees in strategic planning.
  3. Interpret a case study demonstrating these methodologies and processes in action.
  4. Explain the connection between Board approval and Board engagement.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU 1.0 unit (N10C03)

Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
(CN040) Innovative New Teaching Laboratories at Harvard University
 Presented by: Sharalee M. Field, Senior Planner for the Sciences, Harvard University; Ginelle M. Lang, Associate, Burt Hill; Michael J. Reagan, Vice President, Stantec Inc.
Harvard’s new science teaching laboratories in the Northwest Building provide facilities for hands-on research in both introductory courses and advanced project laboratories. These labs expand Harvard’s teaching facilities in a fashion that promotes new innovations in teaching as well as tight linkages with faculty research. Our presenters will explain the planning process for the new interdisciplinary and interdepartmental labs and will discuss the development of 4 innovative teaching lab typologies: a flexible, active-learning lab, a shared project lab modeled on research space, a state-of-the-art visualization lab, and a tiered-bench lecture lab.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Develop a plan for working with multiple departments on a shared space.
  2. Recognize future trends and design spaces that can accommodate these trends.
  3. Provide flexibility without sacrificing functionality in a specialized environment.
  4. Identify opportunities to integrate teaching spaces with hands-on research methodolgies.

Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
(CN028) Predicting the Unpredictable: Planning for Enabling Projects
 Presented by: Pamela Palmer Delphenich, Director, Campus Planning & Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jon Keller, Principal, Imai Keller Moore Architects
Enabling projects—the work that you have to do in order to get to the project you want to do—presents headaches for institutions because it often has an unpredictable impact on project costs and schedules, and once uncovered can be very challenging to execute and pay for. A university planning director and an architect share strategies for bringing enabling work under control and integrating it with campus plans at the campus planning level and the project level.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify the enabling work that inheres in your campus, organize it in a framework, and integrate it with the campus plan.
  2. Employ graphic tools to explain enabling work options to stakeholders, and to illustrate the relationship between planning decisions now and project outcomes later.
  3. Evaluate project constraints and formulate accurate project scope definitions and budgets,
  4. “Think outside the project” and recognize how proactive attention to enabling work can lead to more effective planning solutions across multiple projects.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/HSW/SD 1.0 unit (N10C28)

Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:30 AM–10:30 AM
(CN029) To Build or Not To Build, That is the Question
 Presented by: Lynne Deninger, Associate Principal, Cannon Design; Debi L. McDonald, Associate Principal, Cannon Design; Deborah Merrill-Sands; Marsha Semuels, Executive Administrative Dean, Tufts University School of Medicine

This session presents two strategies for supporting evolving curriculums and programs within the context of existing campus resources: one through the renovation of an existing building, the other by consolidating a program housed in multiple buildings into one new building.

Through discussion of two case studies –a new building and a renovation of an existing building - this session will empower campus decision-makers with proven solutions to continue to work toward the larger goals set forth in their Strategic and Capital Improvement Plans by approaching them in a more incremental, economical, and sustainable way. The two strategies presented in this session will foster a larger discussion about exploring renovating or repurposing buildings in addition to new buildings, and maximizing budgets through strategic renovations.  The results are similar: providing effective space for current and future program needs.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Apply tools for careful assessment of existing campus resources. Taking a broad view of the functional and cost implications of maintaining existing buildings versus building new.
  2. Evaluation of potential to repurpose existing buildings to meet current and projected future needs of both the program and the institution. Looking into issues such as space efficiency, energy efficiency, and future flexibility
  3. Utilize a strategic process to assess the need to build a new building in lieu of renovating existing space.
  4. Identify effective engagement of constituency groups.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/HSW/SD 1.0 unit (N10C29)

Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:45 AM–11:45 AM
(CN030) Integrated Planning, Team Building, and the Greening of Cooper Union
Presented by: Susan Drew, Principal, Gruzen Samton Architects LLP; Jean Oei, Senior Project Designer & Job Captain; Clark Wieman, Planning Director, Cooper Union

Cooper Union is nearing the end of a 10 + year plan to upgrade academic infrastructure, while pursuing the highest level of sustainability integrated with internationally acclaimed design. Planning efforts, initiated in 1998, focused on engaging a broad range of academic stakeholders to re-envision space use practices, connecting financial and environmental sustainability. Cooper Union team presents the process by which a policy goal of LEED Silver was transformed into LEED Platinum during the planning execution, design and construction process.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Evaluate strategies connecting sustainability goals with long term financial planning
  2. Resolve college/university's internal struggle to balance faculty input and oversight with design team creative freedoms
  3. Analyze planning and environmental policy-making steps as keys to team strength and project success.
  4. Identify environmental designs and technologies that maximize building environmental performance and LEED rating

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/HSW/SD 1.0 unit (N10C30)

Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:45 AM–11:45 AM
(CN018) Revisiting the 1980’s?: Campus Planning in Times of Retrenchment
 Presented by: Clifford D. Resnick, Director of Planning, Brown University; Laura Wernick, Principal, HMFH Architects, Inc.; Richard Yeager, Assistant Director, Planning & Design, Boston College

Institutions today must continually rethink, re-prioritize and plan anew. In the face of today’s flattened income, rising operational costs and desire to deliver curriculum more effectively, key planners from Boston College, Brown University, and MIT will look back at the state of their campus 25 years ago and use that as a context for discussing how current forces will be shaping their campuses for the next 25 years. In the forefront of the planning conversation will be topics including partnering, consolidation, improved utilization of facilities, greater use of technology as an educational delivery tool, and energy and infrastructure planning.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Review how planning concepts from the past 25 years have evolved and shaped campuses and in particular, how these drivers are continuing to impact new ways of curriculum delivery.
  2. Compare an examination of re-use strategies and emphasis on a sustainable campus, attendees will review successful strategies that can impact long-term campus planning, reduce capital expenditures and lessen dependence on fossil fuels.
  3. Compare an examination of re-use strategies and emphasis on a sustainable campus, attendees will review successful strategies that can impact long-term campus planning, reduce capital expenditures and lessen dependence on fossil fuels.
  4. Explain and evalutate how full utilization of existing buildings is being planned through the use of scheduling strategies, partnering, the creation of regional and national education networks and distance learning.

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/HSW/SD 1.0 unit (N10C18)

Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:45 AM–11:45 AM
(CN042) The St. John’s Townhouses – Planning Campus, Student, and Community Life
 Presented by: Brij Anand, Vice President, Facilities Design and Construction, St. Johns University; Neill E. Parker, Principal, Stonehill & Taylor Architects PC; Ibi Yolas, Executive Director Design & Construction, St John's University-New York

The St. John's University’s Townhouses are a case study in campus transformation and a fundamentally different mode for student habitation. At the perimeter of an urban campus and the first project in an ambitious capital campaign, the project posits the model for completing the school's transformation from commuter college to residential university and reconfiguring its relationship with its neighborhood. Organized around outdoor courtyards reminiscent of medieval cloisters, the Townhouses re-shape students’ lives, campus architecture, and community in a positive way.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Identify opportunities and challenges before planning an on-campus university expansion
  2. Define goals for the success of the project
  3. Evaluate and collect relevant examples or models from the past that provide useful guidance
  4. Employ creative strategies to achieve project goals and support the school's mission

Continuing Education Credits:
AIA LU/HSW/SD 1.0 unit (N10C42)