Conference Presentations

Academic facility design effectiveness of is a common stakeholder concern. Conducting and sharing post-occupancy evaluations helps to ensure a tradition of environmental excellence using an evidence-based design methodology. We'll share the planning process behind Virginia Commonwealth University's (VCU) Health Professions Building, which brings together nine departments for cross-disciplinary and innovative education, and discuss our design strategies, post-occupancy evaluation, findings, and future implications. The design of complex educational facilities comes with many tradeoffs and decisions; find out how you can apply VCU's tools to collect student and faculty feedback with data that links performance and satisfaction to your built academic environments.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply evidence-based design thinking to your projects by encouraging a tradition of soliciting post-occupancy feedback and gathering building performance data.
2. Formulate questions to link design strategies to their intended goals and measure their effectiveness.
   
3. Discuss how to coordinate and conduct a post-occupancy evaluation using a combination of interviews, observation, and data collection to help build a body of evidence-based design knowledge.
4. Apply VCU's lessons learned about designing for collaborative teaching and learning modalities on your campus.

Presenters:Jennifer Amster, Principal, Page Southerland Page, Inc.
Lauren Bailey, Facilities Management, Planning and Design Project Manager, Virginia Commonwealth University
Brent Castro, Senior Designer, EYP, A Page Company

Continuing Education Units: AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM22C1617) | AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Delivered 03/10/2022.

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