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Evaluating Facilities Utilization and Quantifying Space Needs

Presenter(s): John R. Bengston and Daniel K. Paulien, Paulien & Associates, Inc.

Campus planners and planning analysts in system offices need help in evaluating campuswide space needs and academic facilities utilization. This workshop will provide exposure to space-needs analysis methods at a macro and micro level. It will cover analysis of classroom and laboratory utilization, statewide and systemwide approaches, and the application of more detailed guidelines for classroom, teaching laboratory, research laboratory, office, library, and physical education/recreation spaces. Implications for planning practice include making workshop attendees more aware of the most current issues regarding data quality and guideline application and interpretation. Attendees will be better prepared to protect their institution against skewed findings that may appear on systemwide or statewide reports. Systemwide analysts will be better prepared to evaluate institutional submittals for comparability. Take-home materials will provide specifics on all topics covered in the workshop. Daniel K. Paulien is president of Paulien & Associates, Inc., a Denver-based space-needs and facilities programming consulting business and is past president of SCUP. John R. Bengston is senior associate at Paulien & Associates, Inc.
This knowledge resource from SCUP is a preconference workshop presented at the Society's thirty-sixth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–36, in Boston, MA (USA), in July of 2001.

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