海角视频 helps colleges and universities聽optimize聽their facilities, organization, and operations聽to create more resilient futures.
Institutions face unprecedented social, economic, technological, and demographic change.聽Everything is changing: how students learn and聽get support,聽how faculty teach and conduct their research, how staff work,聽how institutions are funded and generate revenue,聽and how institutions and industry partner.聽
To聽anticipate聽and respond to these changes, we help colleges and universities solve complex聽problems聽and maximize opportunities聽like聽getting stakeholders aligned as you share resources, enabling growth or consolidation,聽and helping people work and learn differently. To do this, we聽bring together聽technical, operational, and organizational聽expertise聽with聽insightful analysis, expert facilitation, and diverse perspectives聽from insight through implementation.聽聽
These come together so that colleges and universities can realize results like:
- Creating innovative new facility types that bridge disciplines, include industry partners, and聽support new schools/college/programs聽
- Helping institutions grow in place to聽be聽financially聽and environmentally聽sustainable, for example,聽accommodating 22% population growth in the same footprint and saving 19,000 metric tons of CO2贰听听
- Understanding聽your people聽better聽and their experience, achieving results like 88% faculty satisfaction聽with instruction and 89% student satisfaction with libraries聽
- Improving processes and increasing productivity while decreasing space,聽such as 84% reduction in response times, 89% employee engagement, and 4.26 hours per week in productivity gains per person聽
- Make the case for funding by developing the case statement and business can for public and philanthropic support. For example, our case for a library renewal garnered $150M in public and $55M in private funding and our analysis聽led聽to聽$1B in city/state infrastructure funding聽聽
To get these results, we offer a breadth of advisory services聽including聽visioning and strategic planning,聽market studies and academic planning,聽sustainability analysis and planning,聽organizational聽design and聽transformation,聽operational planning and budgeting,聽,聽facilities聽programming and planning,聽mobility and transportation planning, physical and operational security,聽smart campus strategy,聽and聽business case development.聽聽
We work with聽you聽in a hands-on way to evaluate where you are today, envision where you want to go, explore how to get there,聽advise聽you through implementation, and measure your success. We聽don鈥檛聽come with preconceived solutions. Instead, we聽partner with our clients聽to get results by聽bring proven tools and a flexible process that can be tailored to you.聽
SERVICES
Creating an ambitious yet achievable vision and strategy require an approach that looks internally and externally, involves and aligns many stakeholders, and rapidly tests ideas. By combining insightful in-depth research and analysis with expertly orchestrated and facilitated stakeholder engagement, 海角视频 diagnoses the current state and then crafts a vision to differentiate your institution. Together, we then define the goals, identify key strategies and tactics, and test ideas to reduce risk and build momentum. With a vision or strategic plan in hand, your team will be aligned and ready to enact meaningful changes.
We help develop and implement an approach that achieves meaningful, measurable sustainability outcomes that are well-aligned to the campus vision and values. Our team has the experience and technical capabilities to guide the planning and implementation of a wide range of outcomes including operational & embodied carbon emissions (scopes 1, 2, & 3), water use, human health & wellbeing, ecosystem services, and social impact. We鈥檙e able to plug in and provide support at any step of the improvement process whether that be establishing a holistic vision through a campus sustainability strategic plan, applying a vision to the built environment through building performance guidelines, providing technical assistance to implement existing decarbonization, environmental, or wellbeing goals, and/or measuring success and reporting results through data collection, analysis, and sustainability validation frameworks.
Too often projects aren鈥檛 realized because colleges and universities don鈥檛 make the right case for resources or don鈥檛 have the right data or cost/benefit analysis to inform their decisions. We work with institutions to address these problems, combining broad and deep stakeholder engagement, technical expertise, and powerful analysis. We work with you to make the business case for projects, combining stories and stats by forecasting benefits as well as costs. We facilitate case statement workshops to envision future uses and impacts. We quantify economic impact including numbers and types of jobs created to make the case for funding.
Managing assets across campus requires a process that combines insightful analysis with innovative and inclusive stakeholder engagement to create a flexible plan for the future. 海角视频 advisory uses an integrated planning approach to analyze the current state, forecast the future, and develop practical strategies to get there. We identify trends, benchmark peers, engage stakeholders, forecast future headcounts, and define priorities to create a comprehensive plan that provides short- and long-term improvements to provide the right kinds of space, in the right quantity, and in the right place. With a campus or precinct plan in hand you will be able to assess upcoming opportunities, allocate resources, and flexibly implement the plan in a phased and coordinated way 鈥� and understand the operational and organizational changes involved.
Most organizational charts don鈥檛 reflect how you get work done or the services and programs you offer, and many L&D programs are training sessions people dread and quickly forget. 海角视频 advisory takes a different approach to organizational design and development by using participatory processes so that people design their own future and develop the skills they need to realize it. We clarify, reimagine, and align your purpose, process, roles, structure, partnerships, and support systems. We design and facilitate learning and development activities that enable people to play new roles, use new processes, and work in new ways. You will be better able to align, communicate, and collaborate internally and better adapt externally 鈥� often as a follow-up to service design and operational planning or on its own.
We design integrated mobility strategies that make campus access seamless, sustainable, and people-focused. Starting with a thorough analysis of existing conditions, we use advanced traffic and pedestrian modeling to understand circulation patterns and identify opportunities for improvement. Our approach considers all modes鈥攚alking, biking, transit, shuttles, and private vehicles鈥攚hile reducing parking demand and minimizing conflicts. We plan for pick-up and drop-off zones, logistics operations, and micro-mobility options to enhance convenience and safety. By combining data-driven insights with stakeholder engagement, we create solutions that align with campus vision, improve user experience, and support environmental goals. The result is a connected campus where movement is efficient, inclusive, and resilient.
What degree, non-degree, or other academic programs will you offer in the future? What will your enrollment and your faculty and staff populations be? To answer these questions, 海角视频 advisory facilitates an innovative and inclusive academic planning process that engages your stakeholders to look within your institution to identify areas of strength, differentiation, and potential. In parallel, we look externally to understand the trends, the competitive landscape, and analyze labor market data. We bring these together with recommendations, including ways to test the feasibility of creating, consolidating, sunsetting, or growing academic programs. With the program opportunities identified and forecasts for enrollment and faculty/staff headcount, and key steps for implementation, you鈥檒l be on a path to bold, sustainable future.
Too often, what organizations call 鈥渃hange programs鈥� are little more than top-down communication campaigns, leaving stakeholders and employees with minimal input or influence. We take a different approach, embedding transformation design from the start. We begin helping you define why the change matters and how success will be measured to set up your initiative to succeed. Next, we conduct a current state analysis, change-readiness assessment, and stakeholder engagement to uncover barriers and enablers unique to your institution. From there, we co-create a tailored transformation program aligned with your goals and readiness. We then help you design and implement communications, training, and pilot initiatives, calibrated to your in-house capacity and capabilities. Throughout, we provide coaching, track progress and guide adaptation, ensuring your transformation is sustainable and measurable.
Innovative spaces require new operational models so that people can learn, live, and work differently. We work with you to create new service models for what to offer, where to provide it, and how you鈥檒l deliver it. We develop new staffing models to forecast staffing needs. We model operating budgets including staffing, utilities, maintenance, and more to ensure CapEx and OpEx are aligned to avoid over-building or under-resourcing. With a future operating model in place, institutions can mitigate the risk of and accelerate the adoption of new ideas for spaces and support services to make the most of these changes.
Spaces for learning, research, support services, and working need programming and planning that is research-driven, future-focused, and tied to institutional strategy. To understand the desired direction and balance of spaces, 海角视频 analyzes current space utilization using booking, badge-swipe, and sensor data at the scale of the room, floor, building, and campus. Then, we develop future space program scenarios at a category-level (office, open study area, enclosed study area, etc.) for the strategy then a detailed room-by-room level for the tactics. We identify key agencies to optimize the flow of people, equipment, and ideas. This programming is informed by technical expertise from engineering disciplines which ensures feasibility by incorporating requirements for structures, MEP, fire protection, lighting, acoustics, and AV/IT into an integrated programming process.
Our Smart Campus Model is an integrated framework that identifies key outcomes, use cases, advanced technology services, and data-driven strategies. The goal of a smart campus model is to create a dynamic, sustainable, and interconnected environment that improves occupant comfort, safety and well-being, energy consumption, space utilization, dynamic programming and events, and facilities management efficiency. This brings together our expertise in mobility, security, AV/IT, lighting, and sustainability to create a better experience in a more efficient and effective way. We work with you to understand needs, define goals, identify systems and solutions, and guide their integration to advance institutional strategy.
Our approach
We conduct research, engage stakeholders, develop strategic plans, redesign student services, analyze space utilization, both program and plan buildings, precincts, and campuses, develop staffing plans and operating models, and facilitate organizational change management.
Along the way, we bring in other expertise and disciplines to solve our clients problems: studying the market to see if you can expand your programs as we study your facilities, reducing your physical footprint and carbon footprint together, integrating technology to create smart spaces, and assessing the conditions of building systems and providing engineering advice for planning and feasibility studies.
From work with more than 100 colleges and universities, we have developed expertise at the campus, precinct, and building scale in:
- Administrative and academic workplace
- Arts and cultural facilities
- Innovation labs and districts
- Libraries and learning spaces
- Professional schools such as business, engineering, and medicine
- Interdisciplinary science facilities
- Student support services
Together, we create vision that provides focus and differentiation. We develop strategies to enable growth. We help you adapt to new ways of learning, working, and living. And we do all this in a way that enables organizational change by including people in the process, looking inside your organization and outside of it to trends and competitors, and testing things out to learn along the way.
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