Paulien & Associates Inc. has conducted several planning studies for the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. We have been consultants for various space, utilization, and programming projects on the Ninth and Colorado Campus for nearly twenty years including programming the Medical Student Instructional Center, the School of Pharmacy building, and the Biomedical Research Facility.
As the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center made plans to move to its new campus on the site vacated by Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Paulien & Associates was contracted to prepare a program plan for a shared remote library storage facility to be shared by the University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Denver, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and the University of Denver. The program plan included storage and space projections for each of the primary participants. This was the first building constructed on the new Fitzsimons Campus of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Paulien & Associates, Inc. was the programming firm contracted to quantify the program space allocation for the Academic Office and Facilities Support buildings and for the Education II Building on the new Fitzsimons Campus. The projected cost for the new facilities was planned to be over $126 million. Work sessions were held with project steering committees and with potential facilities occupants to obtain information on unique needs and functions, to identify programmatic adjacencies, and to develop the room by room program space needs in order to compile the architectural program. The programming process involved collaboration with projects presently under construction, other projects in programming, and the UCHSC Fitzsimons campus master plan. The program plan was developed to comply with requirements of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE).