After identifying the program and building opportunities, we then prepare an overall development strategy to accommodate the identified need, which includes space migration strategies, the renovation and reuse of available space, additions, new construction, or demolition. The program accommodation strategy will factor in costs, enabling projects, and anticipated renovations and capital projects. The goal of this effort is to optimize and maximize the use of an institution’s existing space, provide flexibility, and support the institution’s strategic and academic goals. Strategies will identify recommended short-term solutions, long-term space use, configuration of space, and ideal departmental users that reinforce goals for desired adjacencies. Conceptual floor plans and blocking / stacking diagrams reinforce the key ideas of the development strategy.

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Suitability

Conducting a suitability analysis helps to determine the optimal use of a building and capacity to support functions with varying degrees of intensity.

Program Development

Close collaboration between our campus planning, architecture, and interior design practices enables us to translate planning-level space estimates into detailed space programs as the basis for facility design.

Space Needs Modeling

Space needs modeling allows us to generate an understanding of space need across various higher education space types, identifying space surpluses and deficits according to various enrollment levels and space planning assumptions.

Right-Sizing and Optimizing Space Use

Our right sizing assessments are geared toward optimizing institutions’ existing resources, and identify how well the instructional room supply aligns with section sizes.

Utilization and Occupancy Analyses

We perform in-depth analyses of instructional space utilization as a key component of our space planning services, focusing on utilization and occupancy.