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Learning Resources

Facilities Management

Report

Data-Informed Space Utilization

 This resource is designed to support business officers and other institutional leaders in developing data-informed space utilization practices.
Conference Presentations

How to Craft a Living, Data-Driven Facilities Master Plan

 In this session, you will learn how the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s College of Engineering created this responsive master plan that acts more as an interactive set of tools than a static document.
Webinar Recordings

Managing Your Historic Campus Facilities in Today’s Resource-Constrained Environment

 How are you addressing your campus’ historic facilities with so many competing needs for limited resources? This webinar will outline strategies for the management of historic properties on college and university campuses, with guidelines, standards, and best practices to address a wide range of concerns dealing with historic facilities.
Blog Post

Take It Outside to Help Solve Campus Space Shortages

 The expanded use of outdoor spaces can help meet a current challenge, but this should also spark a longer-term strategic effort to better utilize their potential for enhancing the student academic experience.
Webinar Recordings

The Impact of COVID-19 on Construction on Campus

 This webinar will focus on how higher education campus construction is impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and its positive and negative implications on construction sites on the MIT and Northeastern University campuses. Panelists will share case studies of how on-campus construction has changed, the new supply chains, and staff management consideration.

This is part of the series “Less Talk, More Action: Tactical Topics to Return to Campus.”

Conference Recordings

Using Technology to Facilitate a Safe Return to Campus

 In order to facilitate a return to campus post-COVID, Penn State leveraged technology and cross-functional teams to successfully plan and implement safe social distancing measures across various rooms types using a decentralized management model.