Business Partner Membership
Excellence in estates and facilities
Join The Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) AUDE business partner membership is open to companies providing products and services to support the evolution, innovation, transformation and management of higher educational estates and facilities. As an AUDE business partner, your company will have access to 700 senior estates professionals registered across 166 UK institutions. Membership gives you an audience with estates directors who are focused on enhancing, maintaining and protecting the quality of their estates. They are leaders and decision makers with budget authority for campus planning, capital projects, construction, refurbishment, energy, utilities management, accommodation, commercial enterprise, maintenance, security and much more.
Join today – complete and return the enclosed application form or download a copy from aude.ac.uk/membership.
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Membership package Business partners will be assigned a dedicated account manager and have regular, personal contact with the AUDE executive director to discuss new opportunities. Eligible organisations
Companies providing products and services to support the evolution, innovation, transformation and management of higher educational estates and facilities.
Benefits
• Access to AUDE website for 1 primary contact (additional users at additional cost) • Free access to AUDE’s reports including our flagship estates management report • Three free articles in the AUDE news digest (educational content only, no direct sales) • Access to AUDE learning and development programme at commercial delegate rate • Priority contact for other sponsorship opportunities ahead of general sales • Guaranteed exhibitor place at AUDE conference (at an additional cost)
AUDE is the representative body for higher education estates and facilities staff in the United Kingdom. Its 700 members from across 166 UK institutions benefit from strategic support, innovative thinking and networking opportunities.
• Access to AUDE events as a delegate, paying member rates
AUDE’s activities include:
• AUDE Business Partner logo for company use
• providing opportunities for discussion, consultation, the exchange of knowledge and good practice
• Priority contact for solutions to AUDE member issues, for example, the need for a workshop/presentation on BIM in line with AUDE terms of reference
• 1 commercial delegate rate place at AUDE Annual Conference • Logo and company details on the Business Partner page of the AUDE website
• helping members share expertise and take action to address common concerns • promoting and enhancing professional competence • representing member interests • building partnerships with related organisations regionally, nationally and internationally.
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• Regular updates from AUDE, mailings and news digest Who can join?
We have a range of packages to suit your budget, starting from one primary contact to unlimited users.
Please note business partner packages are limited and not guaranteed. Applications are considered by the AUDE executive committee at the next available quarterly meeting.
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Key information • AUDE’s 2018 annual conference was attended by 125 directors and deputy directors of estates and facilities management • Exhibition at AUDE’s annual conference is over-subscribed every year, but with business partner membership you will be guaranteed a place • In 2017, 206 AUDE members attended a learning and development course which will be open to business partners • The AUDE website received over 100,000 page views in 2017 • The AUDE member e-newsletter has an open rate of 32%
What our members say “AUDE is a very collaborative environment and one which is very refreshing and very different to other sectors.” Keith Lilley, Director of Estates, Facilities Management and I.T., University of Sheffield and AUDE Chair
“If AUDE didn’t exist I would feel obliged to go out and invent it.” Sue Holmes, Director of Estates and Facilities Management, Oxford Brookes University.
“It would be a backwards, step for universities without AUDE.” Umesh Desai, Director of Estates and Commercial Services, De Montfort University and AUDE Secretary
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