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Deferred Maintenance

Webinar Recordings

Achieving Big Carbon Reduction Goals With Small Targeted Building Actions

 This session will provide insight on useful data types for existing building stock and a process for existing conditions exploration to address carbon neutral goals and deferred maintenance within time and budget constraints.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

An Assessment of Capital Budgeting Practices for Public Higher Education

 This study finds a need for new capital projects to include continuing, dedicated revenue streams for the project lifetime in order to avoid continuation of the current state of underfunded maintenance, especially in light of growing needs for upgraded research equipment and space.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Another Day Older, Another Day Better

 While they might be historical gems, are mid-century campus buildings still structurally sound? Is their location and architecture meaningful to the institution? What about energy efficient and fiscally responsible? College and university leaders must make the call: to fix or not to fix.
Example Plans

Capital Improvement Plan 2021–2023
Conference Presentations

Finding the Beauty in Right-sizing the KU Campus

 The constraints that universities face in terms of capital, declining enrollment, and surplus capacity in campus facilities causes escalation of deferred maintenance costs.
Conference Presentations

Planning and Implementing the Sustainable Campus of the Future

 Integrated planning and design that optimizes development capacity and leverages campus growth can help institutions achieve ambitious resilience goals for net-zero energy and resource conservation for a healthier, more sustainable environment. This session will discuss Princeton University’s ongoing efforts to support an ambitious capital plan, address deferred maintenance, advance climate solutions, and maximize use of campus lands. The path to a sustainable campus future will require institutions to go beyond business-as-usual planning to rethink campus infrastructure—particularly energy, stormwater, and landscapes—and activate high-performance sites and buildings.
Conference Presentations

Pursuing Carbon Neutrality Through Campus Master Planning

 Climate commitments and carbon neutrality are becoming top priorities for many campuses.
Conference Presentations

Reconnect, Reuse, Revitalize, Recruit: Addressing Aging Campus Facilities

 Institutions are constrained by housing modern programs within aging facilities.
Webinar Recordings

Reimagining Master Planning at Florida State University

 Revising a master plan isn’t usually innovative, but Florida State’s holistic approach is. By engaging the whole institution in the conversation, the master plan reset will ensure that the values and aspirations of the institution are reflected in a built environment that not only meets program needs, but supports and sustains the innovation necessary for post-pandemic realities.
Conference Recordings

Reimagining the Student Experience and Stewarding Campus Resources

 Institutions are seeking to improve student experience to support recruitment and retention on campus, but making big impactful moves can be daunting in the midst of overwhelming deferred maintenance needs.
Conference Presentations

Reimagining the Student Experience and Stewarding Campus Resources
Conference Presentations

Roadmap to a Capital Renewal Program

 We will share how Tufts University manages its capital renewal program using a ranking strategy that considers building condition, utilization, modernization needs, and academic priority.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Stepping Toward Carbon Neutrality

 The University of Louisville’s Planning, Design, and Construction Office strategically used campus planning efforts to collect data, analyze the built environment, and foster robust stakeholder engagement with the campus community and city agencies.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Tackling the Deferred Maintenance Problem
Partner Content

Your Campus Historic Buildings

 This article will help your team create a checklist to determine decision-making priorities for maintaining your historic buildings.