Capital Planning: Discussion from Bob Waddle’s Presentation

There were many interesting takeaways from Mr. Waddle’s presentation about BGSU’s capital planning and investments. Some of the specific needs were estimating “counts”, which are population of students potentially using the facility or in a given area versus the necessary space required to sustain those individuals. I always thought being creative would be an important factor in designing facilities but according to Mr. Waddle “DO NOT DESIGN”, but hire a professional firm to take your needs and run with the development of blueprints to meet those demands. These professionals understand what a certain facility can do for a university and how to save the organization money in the initial development. It was also interesting how competitive the bidding process was for hiring the right architects and builders for the project is. It makes since to be very selective since you will have to work with these individuals for usually a couple of years.

BGSU is building new residence halls, a common thing to consider also in a large city where populations increase. This is an interesting condominium building just finished in NYC.
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http://blog.modernica.net/?p=13941

This next link is to a new facility built at the University of Bath which is very environmentally friendly and meets needs of students and faculty:
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