#Space Planning

Across Florida, higher education facilities leaders are reimagining campus operations to meet new financial, environmental, and cultural demands. Sustainability expectations are growing, budgets are tightening, and the ways students and staff use campus spaces are evolving faster than ever....

The  modern workplace will continue to undergo major changes next year and beyond. Crowded offices and tightly-packed cubicles are artifacts of the past. Today’s workforce seeks flexibility and mobility. And that’s where occupancy analytics comes in. By gaining visibility into how your spaces are...

Across social feeds, “analog baskets” or “ anti-doomscrolling baskets” are showing up as curated collections of screen-free activities: a paperback, a deck of cards, a sketchbook, maybe a small craft kit. These baskets make it easier to choose offline time by removing the friction of “what do I do...

When Space Planners think about space utilization, they often picture sensors in desk clusters or software dashboards showing real-time occupancy rates. But before you can optimize zones, desks, or rooms, you need a solid foundation: floor-level data. This data segmentation provides essential...

Large occupiers are expanding, trading up to prime space, and clustering in core markets—this is the moment for CRE teams to turn utilization intelligence into their unfair advantage.​ The big shift: expansions, upgrades, and core markets CBRE’s “ Expansions by Large Occupiers Dominate Top 100...

Facilities organizations are often tasked with thinking big. They steward campus master plans, shape the built environment for decades to come, and apply rigorous design standards to ensure that new construction and major renovations meet institutional needs. At the macro level, Facilities teams...

When it comes to space planning in higher education, universities often find themselves stuck in a paradox. While most campuses have policies and governance frameworks to oversee their physical footprint, few have the tools, processes, or integrated data systems required to manage space...

Why Perks Alone Aren’t Bringing Employees Back In the race to reignite in-person work, lavish perks—think catered lunches, foosball tables, wellness rooms—were heralded as the answer to lure employees back to the office. Yet, for many organizations, these incentives are failing to earn employee...

Smart space management has elbowed its way to the top of priority lists at corporate office buildings and higher education campuses – any location where space is at a premium. From space realignment following COVID-19 shutdowns to long-range visions for flexible, sustainable spaces, space...

Efficient space utilization has become a critical concern for organizations. Occupancy insights derived from Wi-Fi meta-data has emerged as a powerful tool to optimize space management, enhance resource booking, and drive cost-effective decision-making when it’s embedded into Accruent’s suite of...

Real estate prices have skyrocketed in cities across the US leaving colleges and universities in a peculiar predicament. They’re not just competing for students and faculty; they’re engaged in a high-stakes game of musical chairs, desperately seeking space to accommodate their growing needs....

Deferred Maintenance burdens plague nearly every college and university in the US. Moody’s suggests the problem is so large that colleges face up to $950 Billion in capital needs. These figures are set to continue to rise with inflation. Facilities Managers trying to dig themselves out need a...