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Institutions are constrained by housing modern programs within aging facilities. Cornell University's College of Engineering addressed these challenges while collecting programs and enhancing the user experience. This session will explore project goals that resolve pragmatic challenges of aging facilities and evolving programs with interventions that help support the future of academic programs and impact the overall cohesiveness of the larger campus. We'll identify opportunities to solve programmatic and utilitarian challenges within the confines of aging facilities while helping to improve the student experience, recruit researchers, and make connections between buildings and across the campus.

1. Explain how to create efficiencies and better knowledge-sharing practices by collecting previously-scattered programs to create a critical mass and allow better adjacencies and proximities to occur.
2. Discuss the many advantages and challenges of repurposing existing facilities, such as decreasing the carbon footprint, addressing deferred maintenance, implementation of new energy codes, and triggering code compliance.
3. Detail strategic interventions to facades that can address new energy codes, deferred maintenance, failing facades, and provide more functional learning spaces.
4. Prioritize an improved student and faculty research experience through access to daylight, programmatic interconnection, program alignment with contemporary learning and research environments, and space outside formal learning environments.

Presenters:

Tom King, Director of Facilities, College of Engineering, Cornell University
Erin Mulrooney, Associate Dean for Administration, Cornell University
William Voulgaris, Principal, NBBJ

Delivered 07/23/2024.

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