In 2009, Bowling Green State University struggled to maintain its aging campus and keep up with changing student needs. Knowing that they could not continue to operate and maintain all of their existing space, facilities leaders launched a new campus master plan. With an emphasis on upgrading the teaching and learning platform and improving overall asset productivity and utilization, Bowling Green recognized the opportunity to better align the classroom inventory with planned curriculum needs.
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Quantifying the opportunity to take space offline
The first step was to determine how much space could be decommissioned without detracting from academic programming. With the campus master plan’s emphasis on upgrading the teaching and learning platform and improving overall asset productivity and utilization, Bowling Green recognized the opportunity to better align the classroom inventory with planned curriculum needs. In 2012, Bowling Green tasked the provost, college deans, and other academic leaders with conducting a study to quantify Bowling Green’s true academic space requirements. At the time, there were 191 classrooms, nearly 1,900 sections, and an average classroom utilization rate of 60%. To better gauge actual need, the academic leaders modeled out the following…