Services
Comprehensive Planning
Paulien & Associates can provide detailed master planning for campuses, defining capital improvements needs through the analysis of enrollment goals, academic program mix, and detailed space needs projections.
With the involvement of your staff, we organize and develop strategic plans, helping assure the feasibility and achievement of long-range goals and objectives. We achieve this through environment scanning, community needs analysis and peer institution comparisons.
We can also help you determine, justify and plan for future enrollment demands, working
through the master planning process to give you realistic methods for forecasting and
adjusting enrollment and program projections.
Facilities
and Space Analysis
Paulien & Associates can conduct academic space needs assessments through sophisticated research, analysis and forecasting techniques. From data gathered on course enrollment, students, staff and facilities, we develop guidelines for critical space and facility decisions. This can be used for reallocations of space among campus departments, remodeling to change the uses of certain space, and justification (or challenge) of significant amounts of proposed space. Guideline systems are equally effective for growing or shrinking enrollment conditions.
We can provide in-depth facilities program plans, including detailed pre-architectural planning data and an analysis of desirable space adjacencies and project costs. These plans could detail the specific facilities needs for a department or area targeted for development or renovation. They could also provide the cost documentation often required prior to design and construction.
We can prepare detailed facility utilization studies, including numerical and graphical representations of classroom and laboratory use by building, time of day and size of room, as well as classroom and laboratory use by department. Our analysis can help pinpoint the size and type of rooms most often used and those rooms where additional use is feasible.
Example of Time of Day Table and Graph
Example of Utilization by Room Capacity Table and Graph
We can inventory existing facilities through a variety of studies and techniques. This allows for future flexibility by transferring existing drawings to a computerized design system (CAD). We can then help classify and determine the accuracy of existing inventory for use in indirect cost recovery reporting.
Take a look at what we did for the following institutions.
University of Virginia
University of Notre Dame
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pima Community College District (AZ)
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU)
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC)
University of Arizona
Swarthmore College
University of Wyoming
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
University of Colorado at Boulder
Texas A&M University
Special Projects and Studies
We can assess your special needs, such as feasibility analysis for development
projects, and detail any problem area (in planning, facilities, forecasting, etc.) to
determine which of our services will be most beneficial. We can provide consulting on the
feasibility and best approaches to private financing of development projects, either
public or quasi-public. Our experienced analysis is also applicable for bond funding of
facilities or more unique financial arrangements, such as leaseback’s.
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