Virtual | Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference

UPDATE: This program will be scheduled at a future date. The session will be recorded and distributed at a later date.

Presented by: Antonio Calcado, Executive Vice President, Strategic Planning and Operations and Chief Operating Officer, Rutgers University | Christopher Paladino, President, New Brunswick Development Corp.

Antonio Calcado, Executive Vice President and COO of Rutgers University and Christopher Paladino, President and CEO of the New Brunswick Development Corporation will provide a presentation highlighting the unique and successful partnership between the New Brunswick Development Corporation and Rutgers University. As a nonprofit urban real estate development company, DEVCO is recognized as a “powerful engine for economic growth”, and has worked with the university on transformative projects in New Brunswick and Newark.

You will hear about successful strategies behind the development of multiple public-private partnership (P3) projects such as the Gateway, College Avenue Redevelopment Initiative, 15 Washington Street, New Brunswick Performing Arts Center as well as future partnership projects that may work with the State of New Jersey, including The Hub @ New Brunswick. We will offer information on opportunities offered by P3 projects, and describe the significant impact of a university working with a development partner.

Presented by: Robert A.M Stern, Founder and Senior Partner, Robert A.M. Stern Architects | Carla Yanni, Professor of Architectural History, Art History Department, Rutgers University

In the conversation “Robert A.M. Stern On Campus,” Robert A.M. Stern and Carla Yanni will discuss how campus planning and architecture that creates a distinctive sense of place can foster community, support pedagogical goals, and express a school’s institutional identity and mission. Through the lens of his firm’s work at Rutgers University and on college and university campuses across the country, the dialog will address how a scholarly understanding of the history of campus-making can inform planning for the future.

[Not Available to Live Stream] Session 1 | Business Intelligence is not an Oxymoron: Analytics at the University of Delaware

Presented by: Peter Krawchyk, Vice President Facilities & University Architect, University of Delaware | Timmie Mirza, Business Intelligence Project Manager, University of Delaware | Mike Woodin, Associate Director Capital Planning & Strategy, University of Delaware | Mike Guns, Associate Director Maintenance Strategy & Planning, University of Delaware | Ted Socha, Director Sustainability, Energy & Engineering, University of Delaware

In this session, we’ll show you how to use a business intelligence and data analytics process to gain insights into managing capital and deferred maintenance programs, achieve more efficient asset management, and evaluate campus utilities consumption. We will step into the University of Delaware’s ‘Insight Studio’ where we will walk you through our journey and explore how data analytics can help your institution. Come learn how to make the invisible visible through a live demonstration of data visualizations about capital planning, maintenance management, and energy consumption.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how to change your overall strategy from anecdotal to data-driven decision making.
2. Blend data from multiple sources to gain insights into your institution’s operations performance.
3. Gain insights on how to use visual analytics and geo-analytics to effectively manage a long-term capital plan for the future state of your campus.
4. Explain how business intelligence and data analytics are providing facilities managers with insight into the core asset management program.

Session 2 | Decarbonizing Your Campus: Planning for Electrification and Resilience

Presented by: Christopher Lee, Architectural Designer & Sustainability Coordinator, Jacobs/Wyper Architects | David Smith, Director of Energy Services, Burns Engineering, Inc. | Tony Gelber, Director for Administrative Sustainability, Pratt Institute

Institutions are recognizing their climate leadership role and are committing to decarbonization. Planning for infrastructure, campus, and transportation electrification to meet aggressive carbon targets is challenging and requires holistic solutions. This session will discuss transitioning away from fossil fuels for campus heating and transportation and explore new technical, procurement, and phasing strategies to cost-effectively achieve carbon reduction and resiliency goals. As the urgency to achieve significant carbon reductions grows, we will provide you with the strategies, trends, and technologies to underpin successful plans to achieve target levels at your institution.

Learning Outcomes

1. Describe the context and importance of decarbonization at a local and global scale.
2. Identify the key parts of putting together a carbon action plan that is measurable, incremental, and collaborative.
3. Demonstrate strategies for addressing embodied and operational carbon for new building design, existing buildings operation and maintenance, and energy infrastructure.
4. Compare current sustainability certifications, codes, and regulations that can support decarbonization on campus and communities.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C265)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

[Not Available to Live Stream] Session 3 | Haverford College Lutnick Library Transformation

Presented by: John Davis, Principal, Keast & Hood Co. | David Harrower, Assistant Director of Facilities Management Planning & Design, Haverford College | Todd Shafer, Associate Principal, Perry Dean Rogers Partners Architects | Ryan Halpin, Project Manager, The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company

Library spaces are at the top of the list for many institutions’ planned renovation projects as the usage and function of these spaces has largely shifted from stacks to more flexible student-centered designs that go beyond the traditional library. We will share how we transformed the Lutnick Library at Haverford College to create a 21st century teaching and research center focused on community, collaboration, and scholarly pursuit. Find out how you can apply our project team’s lessons learned to create effective and engaging library spaces on your campus.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify important factors you must consider to successfully plan a project involving a historic structure.
2. Determine when to involve a general contractor and assess available technology necessary for managing your project.
3. Leverage existing campus assets and identify which of these you should keep, demolish, or renovate.
4. Explain how to fully integrate student groups and other end users into the project’s design process.

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C361)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 4 | Master Planning Engagement Strategies for Underserved and Underrepresented Students

Presented by: James Kolker, University Architect/Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Washington University in St. Louis | Christiana Moss, Principal, Studio Ma

Underserved and underrepresented students form a large and rapidly growing portion of student bodies, but current planning practices do not address their needs. This session will help you create meaningful change at your institution to accommodate these students by exploring new practices for social equity in campus planning and building design. Come learn about new engagement and assessment tools that can reveal and remedy disparities that students encounter and use them on your campus to deliver a better experience for marginalized students.

Learning Outcomes

1. Determine shortfalls in current student engagement and assessment practices for underserved and underrepresented students.
2. Identify new outreach and engagement tools that are more effective in evaluating the perspectives and needs of underserved and underrepresented students.
3. Improve data analysis gathered from physical planning outreach to improve programs and facilities, which will enhance the academic and co-curricular experiences of underserved and underrepresented students.
4. Present issues and solutions for improving the wellbeing of underserved and underrepresented students using clear visual communication tools that will in turn gain buy-in from senior administration and the greater community within your institution.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C204)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 1 | Creating Empathy-Driven Design Collaborations with Virtual Reality

Presented by: Amy Eichenberger, Senior Project Manager, University of Virginia | Lauren Shirley, Architect, VMDO Architects | Matthew Trowbridge, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Public Health and Associate Research Director for the, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Multiple entities within institutions often have competing values, but virtual reality (VR) simulation can help overcome this challenge by creating an accessible platform for building a collective vision. We will demonstrate how we incorporated VR into stakeholder engagement for the University of Virginia’s Student Health and Wellness Center to address health outcomes, promote student learning, and collaborate with interdisciplinary partners across campus. Encouraging stakeholders to virtually test a space’s impact on health and learning will help you to advance decision-making, leverage diverse expertise, and capture empathy-driven insight to create a more efficient and intelligent design process at your institution.

Learning Outcomes

1. Incorporate VR into future interactive user group workshops as part of an integrated planning or design process, using empathy to maximize a space’s impact on health and learning.
2. Identify opportunities to use VR as an investigative tool during the design process to allow user groups to test whether a space can meet specific health and learning needs.
3. Leverage the insight and expertise of people within your institutional community who may not otherwise be part of the traditional stakeholder group.
4. Build consensus and collective vision around the design of common spaces and how they can promote the wellbeing of multiple user groups or departments.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C465)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 2 | Delivering on Vision: Princeton’s New Lake Campus

Presented by: Daniel O’Shaughnessy, Associate Director, Planning, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP | Meredith Bostwick-Lorenzo Eiroa, Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP | Ron McCoy, University Architect, Princeton University | Tatiana Choulika, Principal, James Corner Field Operations

Long-term thinking and project implementation are the foundations of campus planning. Princeton is balancing future focus—planning for 200 years—with the pressing need to implement initial phases quickly and efficiently. South of its historic campus, Princeton is expanding into land that has been preserved for the past century to build its Lake Campus, a new center for research, discovery, recreation, and student life. Come learn how new methods of planning, design, and implementation can deliver holistic campuses by combining vertical projects with site development in a single, integrated process.

Learning Outcomes

1. Strategically build programs that mix uses, users, and unique amenities to catalyze campus life and create community, especially in areas separated from the center of campus.
2. Learn from the land and its history to act as a steward of the pastoral landscapes that underly your campus.
3. Explain how to leverage the three-dimensional nature of project sites to fully utilize all layers of limited space in service of campus needs, reserving as much land as possible for the future and curating an ethos of sustainability.
4. Explain how to bring an ambitious master plan to fruition by merging all planning types into parallel and connected workflows, organizing design teams in a non-traditional way to deliver integration and efficiency.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C299)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 3 | Emerging Credentials: A Framework to Define and Measure the Quality of Non-degree Credentials

Presented by: Michelle Van Noy, Associate Director, Rutgers, Education and Employment Research Center | Heather McKay, Director, Rutgers, Education and Employment Research Center

Non-degree credentials are becoming increasingly common, emerging in response to the need for on-going skills development as part of the rapidly changing economy. This session will discuss a conceptual framework for defining and measuring non-degree credential quality as well as policy and practice. Come and explore how you might integrate non-degree credentials – certificates, certifications, licensure, apprenticeship, and badges – into traditional degree programs at your institution and award academic credit for these credentials.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how to integrate quality non-degree credentials into traditional degree programs at your institution.
2. Explain how to develop processes to award academic credit for quality non-degree credentials.
3. Engage in discussions with stakeholders around non-degree credential quality.
4. Use your knowledge about non-degree credentials to better advise students on non-degree credentials.

Session 4 | Fixer-Upper: University Edition

Presented by: Lori Garrett, Senior Principal, Director of Higher Education Studio, Glave & Holmes Architecture | Susan Reed, Associate, Glave & Holmes Architecture | Hugh Latimer, University Architect, Washington and Lee | Fulton Sensabaugh, Senior Vice President, Kjellstrom + Lee

The functionality of many historic buildings has become antiquated over time. Breathing new life into these buildings through creative rehabilitations that restore their appeal and practicality strengthens connections with alumni and campus traditions and also models fiscal and environmental responsibility. Leaders in the planning, design, and renovation of historic buildings will share how sensitive renovations can transform historic buildings into highly-desired assets. Washington and Lee University’s Colonnade will serve as a case study to explain creative programming, financing, sustainability, and renovation strategies that achieve long-term success.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how to re-purpose existing buildings through innovative renovations that improve functionality, celebrate historic character, and respond to modern academic pedagogy.
2. Mediate between competing priorities and perspectives to establish a successful outcome.
3. Evaluate applicability of historic tax credits for transforming unsuitable historic interiors into highly-desired spaces.
4. Describe how to insert sustainable systems and improve safety without sacrificing programmatic space or the building’s historic integrity.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C351)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

UPDATE: This program and tour will be turned into a symposium! Stay tuned for more details.

Session 1 | Mid-century Make-over: Creating a 21st Century Learning Center and Student Hub

Presented by: Richard Gluckman, FAIA, Founding Partner, Gluckman Tang | Nancy Trainer, FAIA, University Architect and Associate Vice President for Facilities, Drexel University | Thomas Amoroso, PLA, ASLA, Principal, Andropogon

Addressing current student expectations on campuses with mid-century buildings and a tight budget requires collaboration between the client and design team as well as creative placemaking solutions. As part of repositioning for the 21st century, Drexel University renovated the Korman Center, a 1950s library, and the academic quad to serve as a 24/7 student hub and interdisciplinary academic study center that encourages student collaboration. You will learn how to develop practical, sustainable, and design-forward solutions for updating mid-century buildings and spaces that will attract and retain a diverse student population.

Learning Outcomes

1. Actively participate in repositioning your institution to enhance its values and mission with every building project.
2. Advocate for retaining and reusing mid-century buildings instead of overlooking their potential and writing them off as obsolete.
3. Identify bold and sustainable design solutions that will give your institution an advantage in a competitive marketplace.
4. Explain how to develop and implement a communication and working protocol with project teams to help insure on-time and on-budget results.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C412)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 2 | Planning with Athletics: Balancing Program Demand with Campus Mission and Culture

Presented by: Christopher Sgarzi, Prinicpal, Sasaki | Erin McDermott, Director of Athletics, University of Chicago | Matt Robinson, President of Faculty Senate, University of Delaware | Joe Sterrett, Dean of Athletics, Lehigh University

On many campuses, athletics programs continue to isolate student athletes and create exclusivity of facility use. This can create resentment and division on campus and diminish support from the broader campus community. Athletics’ growth and demand for dedicated facilities can challenge institutional principles, but through strategic alliances and planning, you can maximize benefits for your campus community, increase efficiencies, and better engage student athletes. This session will help you find solutions that benefit your entire campus community and reinforce your institutional mission through understanding the issues facing athletics and identifying new strategic associations.

Learning Outcomes

1. Proactively seek opportunities to integrate the needs of athletics with campus wide initiatives or master planning.
2. Prepare for potential athletics donor-initiated improvements that might disrupt the master plan implementation schedule or other institutional facility priorities.
3. Assess the utilization and location of athletics’ large facilities (including fields) to determine if they present other campus benefits, such as special events and accommodating other academic needs.
4. Consider strategic relationships that athletics can have with other academic, recreation, and wellness departments that could reinforce the institutional culture and break down barriers between athletes and non-athletes.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C454)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 3 | Sustainability and Resiliency: The Rider University Energy Master Plan

Presented by: John Wright, Associate Principal, Spiezle Architectural Group | Michael Reca, Vice President for Facilities and University Operations, Rider University | Melissa Greenberg, Sustainability Manager, Rider University | Kim Shinn, Principal, TLC Engineering Solutions | Frank Sherman, Principal, Ecotone Design

In the face of climate change, aging utility infrastructures, and emerging energy technologies, campuses must be prepared to undergo dynamic change to support the institution’s needs. This session will discuss Rider University’s energy master plan, which aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 through integrating facility management and future campus development as well as incorporating energy conservation and generation options. We will demonstrate how you can assess your present facility conditions and corresponding energy consumption and develop a plan to achieve energy independence and carbon neutrality on your campus.

Learning Outcomes

1. Assess monitoring and metering capability conditions on your campus and identify processes to achieve measurable energy and carbon use reduction through energy modeling and project prioritization.
2. Research campus regulations, including building codes, energy codes, and public utilities in conjunction with available financial incentives to identify synergies supporting energy and carbon use reduction.
3. Explain how to develop a framework for an energy master plan that includes short-, medium-, and long-term goals.
4. Discuss how to effectively align the energy master plan with the campus master and strategic plans to achieve consensus and ensure successful implementation.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C201)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 1 | Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Collaborative Campus: Transformation through Ecological Planning

Presented by: Tavis Dockwiller, Principal, Viridian Landscape Studio | Heidi Fichtenbaum, Senior Project Manager, FAirleigh Dickinson University

This session will deliver a methodology for rethinking campus culture and infrastructure to meet climate change challenges. We will share techniques for shifting traditional campuses to educational institutions that safeguard the planet and its people. The largest private New Jersey university is transforming its campus into a river eco-park that improves human and planetary health, delivers resiliency, fuels admissions, and drives student, faculty, and staff retention. You will learn how to build an eco-friendly community by identifying champions across your campus to incrementally build on small successes to achieve big visions.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how to transform your campus into an integrated system that delivers climate resiliency, fosters rich, biodiverse ecosystems, and positively affects human health and wellness.
2. Use our incremental process and projects that move away from traditional responses to drive change at your institution.
3. Use stakeholders to drive change at your institution by engaging students, faculty, staff, and administration as advocates for climate resiliency.
4. Develop a series of educational programs that advance sustainability culture to drive change for a greener future at your campus.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C175)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 2 | How a Substation Project Enabled a New Academic Research Building at Penn

Presented by: Catherine Broh, Partner, MGA Partners | Mark Kocent, University Architect, University of Pennsylvania | Maria O’Callaghan-Cassidy, Senior Director, Operations, The Wharton School

With limited financial resources and space constraints, effective use of valuable campus real estate is imperative. Building projects serve more than academic missions on tight urban campuses and campus infrastructure needs must synthesize with academic needs. This session will explore how the University of Pennsylvania is achieving new student learning and research spaces within an infrastructure project. We will share successful innovative business school student learning spaces, operational technologies, and phasing approaches that you can apply to your campus projects.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain how and when to integrate a campus utility plant and campus improvements within academic building projects.
2. Describe how to maximize program space on a tight site while also building an enclosed loading dock at an active campus pedestrian gateway.
3. Develop strategies for designing active learning spaces and informal collaboration spaces that promote student interaction.
4. Determine how and when to engage faculty, staff and senior leadership in design decisions while managing expectations and accommodating leadership transitions.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C476)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

[Not Available to Live Stream] Session 3 | Re-centering Student Life at Lehigh: Maximizing the Impact of Integrated Planning

Presented by: Julia Carlton Mackay, Planner, Sasaki | Vinicius Gorgati, Architecture Principal, Sasaki | Brent Stringfellow, Associate Vice President of Facilities and University Architect, Lehigh University

Lehigh University has set out to transform student life spaces on campus to enable growth and reinvent the student experience. Creative and integrated implementation strategies are yielding measurable and successful outcomes. In this session, we will demonstrate a holistic and collaborative approach for project planning and implementation that can transcend singular projects and move toward creating a new nexus for student life at the heart of the campus. Come learn how to successfully translate institutional vision into interconnected implementation projects in a fiscally responsible way through thoughtful partnerships, collaborations, and strategic phasing.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define and evaluate project goals based on broader strategic priorities and vision.
2. Build a toolkit of creative implementation strategies.
3. Evaluate the pros and cons of specific implementation strategies in unique contexts.
4. Create synergistic couplings of implementation strategies for maximum impact.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C325)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 1 | Building Beyond the Campus: Leveraging Partnerships and Creating Connections

Presented by: Jed Edeler, Principal, ZGF Architects LLP | Joseph Reagan, Northeast Region Executive, Senior Vice President, Wexford Science & Technology, LLC | Owen Cooks, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Planning, University of Pittsburgh

Many universities struggle to meet space demands when they expand their programs near allied institutions. Public-private partnerships can solve this challenge while helping to strengthen industry and institutional partnerships. Universities can leverage public-private partnerships to expand beyond the boundaries of the campus to relieve space constraints as well as facilitate collaboration with allied institutions. Space demands are significant challenges that need to be addressed and this session will show you an alternative approach to alleviating space needs.

Learning Outcomes

1. Embrace opportunities for public-private partnerships and off-campus development during the master planning process.
2. Identify affiliated institutions or other partners ideal for cohabitation and adjacencies.
3. Explain how to partner with a developer to leverage capital and construction efficiencies in delivering new facilities for your institution.
4. Identify leasable adjacent space your institution can provide to strengthen industry partnerships.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C235)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

[Not Available to Live Stream] Session 2 | How Understanding Neurodiversity Can Inform Learning Space Design

Presented by: Scott Montemerlo, National Program Manager, Education, Teknion | Jeffery Ashley, Professor of Chemistry & Coordinator of Active Learning Spaces, Thomas Jefferson University

What if a majority of students who occupy flexible active learning spaces couldn’t effectively learn in them? In this session we will discuss the concept of neurodiversity and what you can do to make these spaces work for all types of learners. To design learning environments that embrace neurodiversity, we must focus on students’ mental health and wellness by exploring how design elements in learning spaces impact neurodiverse students. You will learn how to empathize with students who experience sensory over-responsiveness and under-responsiveness in active learning environments and how certain design elements can improve learning experiences and mental wellbeing.

Learning Outcomes

1. Define neurodiversity and describe how it affects students’ wellbeing and ability to learn in active learning environments.
2. Identify the challenges and issues neurodiverse students experience in regards to learning and welfare within the context of traditionally designed learning spaces, particularly those that are not flexible.
3. Use design strategies—flexibility, offering furnishing choice, building micro-environments, and spaces that can afford both public and private usage—to meet the needs and foster the wellbeing of many different kinds of learners.
4. Describe how different aspects of design—particularly density, acoustics, orientations, and furnishings—can be used to create a more impactful and healthy learning space for all learners.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU/HSW 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C329)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

Session 3 | Make No Little Plans: Multi-Scale Transformative Planning Implementation

Presented by: Cooper Melton, Associate Principal, Ayers Saint Gross | Terence McCann, Director of Planning, Energy & Sustainability, Towson University | Eric Zahn, Senior Associate, Ayers Saint Gross

An institution’s success is intrinsically linked to that of its students. High-quality living/learning spaces play a critical role in supporting student achievement, building campus community, and bolstering recruitment and retention. Master plans are more than a campus-wide tool, and with thoughtful planning and execution, institutions can craft a vision tailored to student needs related to housing, dining, and the co-curricular student experience. Using concrete examples, this session will illustrate how student experience-driven planning and creative implementation strategies can bolster student success while using institutional resources more effectively.

Learning Outcomes

1. Confront entrenched planning assumptions with strategies that balance institutional aspirations with pragmatic challenges.
2. Evaluate your own campus with a critical eye and find new opportunities to employ contested campus space more efficiently and effectively.
3. Describe how to initiate a master plan targeted to the scale of the campus and tailored to the needs of your institution.
4. Advocate for a holistic approach to legacy campus resources that can be reconfigured to meet the needs of the next generation of students.

Continuing Education Credits

AIA LU 1.0 Unit (SCUPM20C382)

AICP CM 1.0 Unit

UPDATE: This program will be scheduled at a future date. The session will be recorded and distributed at a later date.

Moderated by: Stephen Doyle, Senior Associate, Director of Sustainable Design, Clarke Caton Hintz

Presented by: Reed Gusciora, Mayor of Trenton | Jianping Wang, President, Mercer County College | George Sowa, Executive Director of Greater Trenton

The power that a partnership between a College and City has to transform a neighborhood, contribute to the vitality of
the City and reach under-served populations. The purpose of higher education is to transform lives for the long haul. By working to redevelop their neighborhoods
and cities, institutions of higher education can greatly increase their impact and profile, while improving educational
outcomes. By reaching new students who have long been under-served and ignored, and by using the institution’s clout to help
redevelop a neighborhood, both the institution’s outcomes and profile are greatly raised.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify potential new students from groups that have long been ignored, under-served and discounted.
2. Identify ways to attract and effectively educate these new students.
3.  Identify ways that your institution can have a positive impact on the development and vitality of its surrounding neighborhood.
4. Identify ways your institution can raise its profile and its impact by working with partners to revitalize and transform your surrounding neighborhood.