OUR APPROACH
How does space provision and utilisation vary across your institution’s organisation units and facilities?
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We start with an understanding of your context.
To what extent are your space choices driven by university policies?
Is the size of your workspaces higher or lower than benchmarks?
How does your mix of central vs local space management compare to others’?
For universities participating in the UniForum program, role breakdown data can also help us understand how workplace flexibility can impact space utilisation:
How does space provision and utilisation vary across your institution’s organisation units and facilities?
How easily can any given unit, building or function work remotely?
Where are the greatest opportunities for space sharing?
Do you have leased spaces that could be exited while maintaining current scale and supporting growth ambitions?
Do you have capital projects that could be deferred or cancelled?
The insights generated then allow us to explore individual space optimisation strategies.
Do you have the right mix of space types to effectively support hybrid working arrangements?
How does space provision and utilisation vary across your institution’s organisation units and facilities?
To what extent are your space choices driven by university policies?
Is the size of your workspaces higher or lower than benchmarks?
How does your mix of central vs local space management compare to others’?
The collaborative nature of the study delivers additional value to participants.
Workshops, practice share roundtables and institution specific insights are shared among members so they can discuss with peers:
Our organisation and discipline-based view of space identifies opportunities to use space more efficiently
Office space gap to benchmark based on the institution’s scale and research intensity
Tangible translations of that potential into saving, such as exiting leases or deferring capex
Freeing up space to growth high priority research and teaching programs
Opportunity size could, for example, be:
Specialist campus locations (e.g., medicine only campus) or specific room requirements (e.g., 1:1 rooms for student services consultations)
Relocating academics vs professional staff
Co-location of research labs & office workpoints
Complexity factors could include:
