As Auburn University’s College of Agriculture prepared to demolish and replace their largest 1970s-built academic building, they paused to determine the college’s optimal future geography, in both near- and long-term time frames. To help them develop criteria and scenarios, we analyzed current space...
The Bentley University Academic Space Plan provides data analytics, establishes space management policies, and prioritizes specific investments within the university’s 10-year facility plan. Scenarios evolved from a rigorous understanding of current space use practices and, driven by an interest in...
DUMONTJANKS was engaged by Brandeis University to lead a comprehensive Campus Entry and Circulation Study aimed at strengthening campus identity, clarifying mobility patterns, and enhancing the visitor arrival experience. The study focused on the South Street gateway, the campus loop road, and the A...
We collaborated with Dalton State College on a master plan update with the intent of establishing a capital investment strategy. The study required the development of potential project scenarios with planning-level design configuration and square footages, the prioritization and planning level cost...
Emerson College is the only four-year college devoted exclusively to the study of communication and performing arts in the United States. It occupies prime real estate on Boston Common. The college is space constrained; our analysis showed investment needs in instructional and social space. The mast...
Florida Atlantic University is a public research university in southeast Florida with an enrollment of over 30,000 students. The university’s primary location is an 850-acre site in Boca Raton with satellite campuses in Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Harbor Branch, and Jupiter. Given increasin...
Fort Valley State University is a public land-grant institution (one of only two in the state) and historically black university located in central Georgia. The university has experienced a period of significant capital underinvestment in its buildings and as a result, many of their buildings have s...
DumontJanks was honored to lead a collaboration with George Mason University on the development of a campus master plan. Mason is a complex university with over 37,000 students and an emphasis on student success in support of a diverse student body and its growing stature as a research institution.
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Georgia Southern University, a public research institution headquartered in Statesboro, Georgia, serves over 26,000 students across three primary campuses in the southeast of the state. With a strong focus on student success, academic excellence, and research innovation, the university offers a wide...
DumontJanks, with Ennead and Lord Aeck Sargent, led the creation of a comprehensive ten-year plan for the expansion of Georgia Tech’s “Tech Square” — an innovation hub at the heart of Midtown Atlanta. The plan treats Tech Square as an extension of the core campus, bridging the interstate to connect...
The Harvard Kennedy School framework plan provides a vision for growth and renewal. The vision evolved from the school's strategic objectives: to attract the very best leaders; to transform the educational experience so that students can drive positive change; and to generate powerful ideas that add...
The College of Veterinary Medicine Master Plan provides a data-informed framework to align the campus with the college’s strategic vision. Developed in response to state mandates, the plan addresses an 18% increase in enrollment and the addition of 44 faculty and staff, while modernizing aging facil...
The One Ohio State Framework Plan is a dynamic structure for guiding change in the physical environment at one of the nation’s largest public research universities. It supports, and helped establish the viability of, Ohio State’s strategic “Discovery Themes”: a trans-disciplinary vision where divers...
The Purdue University System is one of the largest in the country, with over 75,000 students attending multiple campuses. Our planning work covered the flagship campus in West Lafayette, and three regional campuses, Calumet, North Central, and Fort Wayne. Each campus has a unique identity and missio...
Slippery Rock University is a four-year, public, coeducational, comprehensive university offering a broad array of undergraduate and select graduate programs to more than 8,500 students. It is a part of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. Our master plan work focuses on:
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DumontJanks is collaborating with the Executive Office of Education and the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance in the creation of a strategic framework for public higher education in Massachusetts. The project's focus is on the development of principles and methodologies for future...
Texas Tech University partnered with us to perform a strategic alignment study. TTU has experienced explosive enrollment growth while also supporting a strong research mission. Planning has historically happened at the system office, but given the university’s aspirations to join the AAU, they sough...
The University of Chicago experienced significant growth that led to evolving classroom needs. Perceptions of space shortages prompted considerations for further construction on the campus core, but the university needed to understand, first, if these perceptions aligned with a quantitative analysis...
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The University of Delaware Space Utilization Study examined the use of academic and student life space at...
The University of Florida's strategic development plan, which we helped author in collaboration with our friends at Elkus Manfredi Architects, established an unprecedented collaborative vision that seeks to transform the City of Gainesville and the university through a series of joint initiatives ad...
UMass Boston plans to demolish a portion of the campus’ existing substructure and several related buildings. In evaluating potential demolitions, the university needed to understand its current use of, and need for, classroom, teaching laboratory, and office space. We undertook an analysis of schedu...
In support of a physical master plan for a new University of Minnesota campus in Rochester, we developed a comprehensive model that integrated academic, research, financial, and physical considerations. The new campus revolved around a vision for signature programs in the health sciences. The goal w...
The University of Nebraska is a public research university with four primary campuses: UNK in Kearney, UNL in Lincoln, and UNMC (the medical center) and UNO in Omaha. The university has approximately 26,000,000 gross square feet of space across these campuses. This represents a significant portion o...
DUMONTJANKS, in collaboration with our friends at Behnisch Architecten, initially prepared a two-day design workshop for the University of Rochester. The scope included the historic Olmsted academic campus, the adjacent UR Medical Center, and the Eastman School of Music and Memorial Art Gallery in d...
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The University of Virginia’s Center for the Arts is envisioned as a transformative new hub, bringing together museums, music, dance, performance, and academics under one roof. Anchoring the Ivy Corridor district and the restored central stream valley and pond, the project strengthens the district as...
The strategic framework for academic space centered on understanding how the university’s complex portfolio of buildings is used and managed today in order to contextualize individual schools’ growth projections and space requirements, and to create a rigorous framework for future capital-investment...
The University of West Georgia is a strong regional university with over 13,000 students. The master plan evolved through a highly consultative process with an emphasis placed on stakeholder engagement. It is based on several key tenets, including the revitalization of the university’s Carrollton ca...
We have enjoyed a long relationship with the University System of Georgia. Our team members have completed planning work for thirteen institutions, and have had the good fortune to collaborate on two important system-wide studies.
The space utilization study grew from concerns over the mismatch be...
The University System of New Hampshire (USNH) is New Hampshire’s public higher education network, spanning the State over five campuses that each serve unique missions. Every ten years, each system institution updates its campus masterplan. In the most recent cycle of planning, the system expected t...
Wayne State University is a large, urban, public research university located in Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1868, the university is committed to preparing its students to excel in a fast-paced and interconnected global society, and to creating relevant knowledge, particularly in areas like health...
As part of the new strategic framework for higher education, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts required each of its 29 public higher education institutions to prepare concept proposals outlining the projects for which they sought funding. We worked with Westfield State on their proposal which outlin...
We have twice developed space plans with the Wharton School, collaborating with faculty, staff, and administrators to identify priorities, opportunities, and challenges. We used interactive online tools to synthesize program requirements, people counts, room data, and the course schedule into a comp...