C – The Built Environment • C.1 - Provide Built Space to Support the College Mission Problem: There is a Current Shortage of Building Space At the current size of student body there is a deficit of dormitory space, which is being coped with by placing some students in buildings designated as faculty and staff housing. Some academic programs are short of teaching space and/or faculty office space, and the Work Program in several instances does not have adequate space for crews and their equipment and/or office space for crew supervisors. It should also be noted specifically that the College lacks a well-equipped, dedicated teaching space seating one to two hundred. The first step in seeking a remedy to this situation is to quantify current needs and to factor any foreseeable change in present demand for space. This can only be done successfully in the context of a committed size of student body over a known timeline. In comparing perceived needs with published benchmarks such as those used in accreditation programs it must be acknowledged that the needs of a work college differ distinctly from those of a conventional liberal arts institution. While the diverse factors that might drive changes in College size may evolve at different rates, the timeline required to program, plan and bring on line new buildings suggests a cycle that correlates to the Collegeʼs strategic plan in commitment to size. A ten-year physical planning cycle would provide for two to three sub-cycles of building planning and realization for facilities of conventional size and nature or a generous single cycle for the occasional large or very complex building. In this context the study and evaluation supporting each new ten-year commitment could take place in years six through eight, with years nine and ten available for planning and realization of new facilities required in year one of the next cycle. with further facilities changes preceding subsequent size changes according to plan through the course of each cycle.
Action Item C.1.1 – Commit the College to a specific student population in at least ten-year increments. Through a comprehensive space utilization study assess the space required to accommodate the currently approved number, placing highest priority on housing, programmatic space to meet the College mission and food service. Evaluate any likely or desirable programmatic changes in light of that number and outline facilities required to accommodate such. Prepare a facilities plan which will identify and specify sites for all new or expanded facilities needed within a ten-year period.
Pattern Language: Efficiency Assessment (IVPL1), Building Omnibus (IVPL2)
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