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A Survival Guide to Planning and Executing Phased Renovations
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Tribute to Achievement and Excellence

 The society’s 2012 awards recognize and applaud individuals and organizations whose achievements exemplify excellence and dedication in planning for higher education.
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An Intersection of College and Community: Transforming Unused Facilities Into Vibrant Learning Centers can be a Win-Win

 The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) collaborated with SCUP for an article in this issue of Learning By Design. Read how Austin Community College repurposed facilities in an abandoned mall into a high-tech center for developmental math instruction.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Analyzing Existing Campus Space for Hybrid Teaching and Learning

 In the aftermath of COVID-19, Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) rethought learning spaces, adapting them to the good practices that were used during the period of solely online teaching.
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.
Conference Presentations

ASAP

 In this session, you will learn about CUNY's ASAP model, how it receives operating and capital funding, and how the physical spaces that support the program were identified, designed, and renovated.
Conference Recordings

At the Edge: Connecting Campus and Community Through Transformative Reuse

 Every campus has underused edges it can leverage as important connections to community within and beyond its boundaries Transformative reuse provides an opportunity to deploy new programs, restore important historic structures, and foster community in different ways. In this session, we’ll discuss how Wesleyan University and Amherst College invested in an underused, historic campus-edge buildings to develop a nexus for creative community, a student run hub, and a think tank for the humanities.
Conference Presentations

Buildings From the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s

 See how other campuses are dealing with buildings from this era as it relates to policy and capital projects. We'll include case studies of both rehabilitation and tear-down.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Chapels
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse

 By integrating historic buildings into your campus planning, their continued reuse can help solve some of the specific challenges facing university planners today.
Conference Presentations

Campus Library Planning to Meet Evolving Student Needs

 Libraries impact every student on campus, and as neutral third spaces, libraries are positioned to provide services equitably. Today's library services have expanded from the traditional book stacks to include a range of diverse resources.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Campus Renewal

 Through a holistic approach emphasizing selective revitalization and limited new construction, Laurentian University transformed its facilities to significantly enhance the student experience.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Change and Renewal for Existing Campus Libraries

 Renovating an existing academic library to meet 21st-century needs requires rethinking both its program and design to create a vibrant, welcoming campus hub for all.
Conference Presentations

Classrooms of the Future in Buildings of the Past

 As the university re-evaluates undergraduate learning environments, a pilot classroom in historic Harvard Hall is the springboard for integrated planning and design processes.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Co-Locate and Consolidate to Create Connected Campuses

 You can share spaces, support services, staffing, and technology systems within your institution and with external partners. This reduces costs while improving outcomes such as retention, graduation, and career placement rates.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Creating a New Campus Destination

 The project offers preservation, building revitalization, and adaptive reuse as an alternative model for sustainable campus growth.
Conference Presentations

Creating a Student Success District Through Transformative Renovations

 First generation and marginalized students often have difficulty accessing campus services. Holistically supporting students through integrated services so that they feel valued, respected, and included is critical to graduation and retention rates.
Conference Presentations

Crossroads of Campus

 In this session, we'll share how we reactivated a stagnant and segmented university center in a long-neglected sector of campus into a new 'crossroads' destination that connects students, faculty, and staff.
Conference Presentations

Delivering a Renovated Learning Commons for an Engaged Academic Community
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Design-Build Delivers Added Value to the University of North Georgia

 Design-build delivery helps higher education institutions control costs, streamline processes and communications, and more efficiently and effectively meet project objectives.
Conference Presentations

Developing New Typologies for Innovative Group Housing in Under-Utilized Spaces

 This session will describe how an innovative typology for students’ small-group living transformed and expanded group living options at Lawrence University.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Discovering Transformative Opportunities for the Athletic Facilities at the University of Pittsburgh

 The challenge for many colleges and universities moving forward is to build and renovate the least amount of space for the greatest number of users and uses.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Doing More with Less

 Just a few years ago we would strive to utilize a space during 60 percent of its usable hours; now we are asked to strive for 70 to 80 percent utilization.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Dos and Don’t of Historic Preservation on Campus

 Restoring fine old buildings is now easier and less expensive, with the right planning.
Conference Presentations

Emerging Vocational Classrooms

 Come learn how you can modify your educational facilities in response to emerging vocations and work with local laws, grants, and industry partners to build for changing curricula.
Conference Recordings

Enhancing the Student Experience

 In this session, we'll explore the attributes, services, and amenities Tarrant County College District is incorporating into their new Northwest Campus renovation to better meet students' needs.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Enhancing the Student Experience in the Sciences

 Science education and science student retention are improved by transforming an underutilized campus space into an Academic Support Center that colocates critical undergraduate academic services.
Conference Recordings

Every Campus Has One

 In this session, you'll learn from three institutions' different but successful approaches: wrapping an existing building; inserting new construction within an existing complex; and reorienting an existing building.
Conference Presentations

Expanding Community: How to Create a Thriving Off-campus Environment

 Transforming vacant off-campus buildings into vibrant centers of learning and experience extends an institution’s presence and mission and helps dismantle town and gown barriers.
Conference Presentations

Finding Your Swan: Reimagining Unloved Buildings at JMU

 There are distinct advantages to both renovation and new construction; an optimal blend of these approaches can enable opportunities for physical growth, evolving programs, and a minimally disruptive reimagining of campus buildings.
Conference Presentations

Improving Campus Character and Performance Through Renovation and Adaptive Reuse

 Breathing new life into old buildings is one of the most sustainable available campus strategies and offers benefits beyond carbon reduction. Renovation and adaptive reuse support a triple bottom line of environmental, financial, and social wellbeing.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Integrated Project Planning in a Construction Management Environment

 When the whole team knows the “why” behind the planning and design process, the result is a better “what.”
Conference Presentations

Keep Your Top Talent
Conference Recordings

Mid-century Make-over

 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.
Conference Presentations

One Campus. Two Institutions. Three Libraries.

 Discuss the evolution of three libraries built in three separate centuries on the Bronx Community College of The City University of New York campus.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Optimizing for Growth

 Thomas Jefferson University focused on culture, communications, and collaboration during a transformational period of combining institutions.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Out of the Shadows

 To prepare students for 21st-century careers, recent capital investments are placing science and technology at the center of campus, with new facilities designed as both social and learning spaces.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Phased Transformations of Academic Buildings

 When you’re renovating a campus building, you’re contending with dust, noise, vibration, the risk of budget overruns, relocating occupants, extended timelines, and more. Following best practices of experienced planners can help you to mitigate the most common challenges.
Conference Recordings

Planning Interrupted

 From the onset of COVID-19, Moore College has demonstrated how a dense urban campus can adapt to the new normal by transforming common space for maximum use to enhance the creative arts education pedagogy—join us to learn about their innovative strategies.
Conference Presentations

Private-Private Partnerships

 Examine a number of cases where Butler University (a private institution) leveraged relationships with public and private partners to provide value to students and the greater community.
Conference Presentations

Promoting Decarbonization and Wellbeing through a Residence Hall Renovation
Conference Recordings

Reaping the Benefits of a New Building? Without Building New

 In this session, we'll demonstrate how to renovate your campus spaces to maximize programming and performance, using a planning approach that addresses the unique challenges of modernizing existing buildings, accommodating future-focused programming needs, and minimizing operational costs.
Conference Presentations

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

 Institutions are constrained by housing modern programs within aging facilities.
Conference Presentations

Reimagining Clippinger: Adaptive Reuse of an OU Post-war Science Building

 Since Ohio University's (OU) Clippinger Laboratory was built in 1967 higher education has changed dramatically: scientific research, instruction, and the students themselves.
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 Presentations

Reimagining OSU’s Campus Gateway District Through P3 Integrated Planning

 In order to reimagine and capitalize on the potential of its campus gateway, The Ohio State University (OSU) employed specific planning and development processes to achieve successful outcomes.
Conference Recordings

Reinvigorating a Campus Landmark

 Beginning with the project's conception and taking you through its planning, design, and construction, we will outline our investigation, historic research, and analysis of Harvard University's Stirling-designed postmodern museum to inform its transformation into a vibrant academic building housing a variety of programs.
Conference Presentations

Rejuvenation

 In this session, we'll provide you with practical strategies that you can apply at your institution as you explore the possibilities of renovating existing student housing facilities.
Conference Recordings

Rejuvenation

 In this session, we'll provide you with practical strategies that you can apply at your institution as you explore the possibilities of renovating existing student housing facilities.
Conference Presentations

Renovating a Library So It Exceeds Sustainability Policies

 The Neilson Library renovation went above and beyond Smith College’s campus sustainability policy by implementing a sustainability charter, prioritizing health and wellness, and advocating for positive change.
Conference Recordings

Renovating Student Services to Promote Success

 Using the renovation of Normandale Community College's College Services Building as a case study, we'll discuss how integrating student services and creating an innovative service model can better promote student success.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Renovation/Expansion of Administration Building Offers Successful Paradigm for Integrated Planning and Collaborative Design

 Sustainability fits well with any renovation project as “adaptive reuse” considerations are inherent in the process.
Conference Presentations

Repurposing Mid-Century Campus Buildings for a New Generation

 In this session, we will explore how Binghamton University implemented a façade upgrade and high performance energy systems for deep energy retrofits for its Science IV building.
Conference Recordings

Resetting the Clock: Duke’s Facility Renewal and Program Enhancement Plan

 Aging campus buildings can have a negative impact on student retention and faculty ability to conduct modern research.
Conference Recordings

Revitalizing LSU’s Huey P. Long Field House for Adaptive Reuse

 This session will discuss how Louisiana State University (LSU) employed adaptive reuse and revitalization to transform a historic and culturally-significant 1932 field house into a collaborative learning center for kinesiology and sociology programs.
Conference Presentations

Revitalizing Mid-20th-century Campus Buildings for 21st-century Science
Conference Presentations

Rubik’s Cube

 Yale University's new Yale Science Building and its associated renovation projects illustrate how a new facility can integrate under-utilized space, meeting program needs and connecting existing science buildings.
Conference Presentations

The Informal Learning Environment

 One of three presentations in a collection of informal learning environment imagery presented in twelve minutes or less by campus design leaders. Topic: Community College of Philadelphia’s Library Learning Commons.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The New Frontier

 U-M’s libraries are not just flourishing, they’re futuristic—embracing the latest technologies and trends in design while maintaining their ultimate mission of enabling and empowering discovery.
Conference Presentations

Unearthed
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Your Campus Historic Buildings

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