This white paper includes a campus management maturity framework to help every university identify the best starting point for incorporating an integrated campus management system into their facilities landscape.
Campus Management
The role of campus management is more complex than ever before. Real estate and facilities management professionals within higher education institutions must manage the needs of many different types of stakeholders, including students, staff, faculty, visitors, and the surrounding environment. And while many elements of the physical campus, like classrooms, lecture halls, labs, dormitories, student centres, and recreational facilities remain relevant and important today, there are many new campus technologies to be managed, such as campus-wide, high speed Wi-Fi, classrooms equipped with technologies to allow remote students to follow sessions online, new access and security technologies, and the 5G network in the future.
It has become increasingly important for real estate, IT, and facilities management professionals to recognise the growing need for a comprehensive campus management toolset and strategy that allows them to incorporate these campus technologies into their digital campus infrastructure too.
A comprehensive campus management solution will support higher education institutions in managing their business processes within real estate, maintenance, space and campus planning, capital project management, events and services, as well as sustainability. In addition, a campus management solution will allow real estate and facilities professionals to manage the existing and emerging systems and smart campus technologies to address challenges across the many different layers within the campus, including its physical infrastructure (both inside and outside the buildings), its digital infrastructure (for example an IoT network for the 5G network), and its learning infrastructure (to support innovative educational models).
Here are some examples of the challenges that real estate and facilities professionals at universities around the world face today:
- Campus property management
- Compliance with lease accounting standards (IFRS)
- Effective campus and space planning
- Effective maintenance strategy
- Student and staff engagement
- Environmental impact and wellbeing
- Safety and security management
- Application of evolving technology and innovation (IoT, Analytics, BIM, CAD, AI, etc.)