Smart Start
Through years of experience with academic health campus master plans, we’ve learned that early engagement with stakeholders is crucial to understanding the unique culture and current needs of an institution to allow a consistent process and reduction of time demand on institutional stakeholders.
Smart Start
Integrated Living Master Planning
Smart Start Process
Prior to starting an academic health campus master plan, it is critical for the institution and consultants to identify the specific needs for the project and the measures of success the master plan will achieve.
Smart Start
Prioritize projects
Projected DGSF need
Projected key room need
Future State
Gap analysis
SF benchmark analysis
Current utilization
Current State
Identify Opportunities and Challenges
Frame
Visioning / project objectives
Market analysis / volume projections
Facilities assessment
Key stakeholder interviews
Data collection and information gathering
Engage Early
Smart
Start
Create
Publish final report
Develop preferred master plan
Preliminary opinion of probable project cost
Phasing plan
Blocking and stacking plans
Develop master plan options
Define Scope and
Time Frame
Guide
Engage the core team early to define:
Smart Start Process
Integrated
Facility-based
Strategic
Types of Master Plans
Single sector (Health or Education or Research)
Multiple sites across region
Single campus
Components
All sectors (Health, Education and Research)
Existing facility assessment
Campus site planning
Identify community connectivity goals
Define decision process, team structure and communication guidelines
Project Organization
Stakeholders to include: Leadership lead, service line driven, community involvement, employee participation
Establish communication: Stakeholder meetings, surveys, town halls and video conferences
Project goals / high-level objectives
Measures of Success
Define scope and timeline
Establish metrics to inform measures of success
Process
Smart Start
Through years of experience with academic health campus master plans, we’ve learned that early engagement with stakeholders is crucial to understanding the unique culture and current needs of an institution to allow a consistent process and reduction of time demand on institutional stakeholders.
Development Zones
Integrated Living Master Planning
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Education and Academics
Research
Healthcare
Integrated Centers
Workplace, Facilities, and Centers
Current State and Future State
Integrated Living Master Plans
Reshaping the Campus
Smart Start
Integrated Living Master Planning
Infrastructure and Energy
Economics, Real Estate, Phasing
Sustainability and Resiliency
Precincts and Development Zones
Community Development
Education and Workplace
AHC Database
Research Strategy Analytics
Health Strategy and Analytics
Strategy and Analytics
Education and Academics
Research
Healthcare
Integrated Centers
Workplace, Facilities, and Centers
Infrastructure and Energy
Economics, Real Estate, Phasing
Reshaping the Campus
Smart Start
Integrated Living Master Planning
Current State and Future State
Integrated Living Master Plans
Sustainability and Resiliency
Precincts and Development Zones
Community Development
Education and Workplace
AHC Database
Research Strategy and Analytics
Health Strategy and Analytics
Strategy and Analytics
Get in touch
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