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University Facilities 2024

 *** Early registration discount ends on Friday, 4/5/2024 ***

New academic facility planning and space management initiatives are being shaped by changing academic priorities, and a very different higher education future is on the horizon. 

At the University Facilities 2024 conference you’ll get the capital project and space management data, metrics, and decision-making rationales you’ll need for expanded facility flexibility, shared resources, improved space utilization, hybrid learning and work, reduced costs, improved recruitment, improved sustainability, and new avenues for financing and funding of capital projects.

PLUS! This special pre-conference course on May 5th:
Fundamentals of Space Planning and Space Management for Higher Education

PLUS! Tour this outstanding new higher education building:
Franklin Antonio Hall at UC San Diego

Make this conference a top priority planning event for your space planning, capital project, campus real estate, FM, and financial stakeholders to set in motion your institution’s visioning, decision-making, and plans of action for a transforming world of higher education involving:

  • High space utilization models and metrics
  • Values-based strategic facilities planning: Wellness, equity, collaboration, sustainability
  • Flexibility concepts for long-term building viability
  • Cost effective renovation of underutilized and outdated space
  • Capital project execution: Construction costs, timing, contracts, delivery strategies
  • Strategies for educational space: Hybrid, multiple modalities, technology
  • Faculty and staff officing: Hybrid workstyles and free-address workspace
  • Implications of artificial intellgence (AI) on campus plans, infrastructure, and space
  • Net-zero energy, carbon neutrality, and electrification of the campus
  • Construction costs and reduction of capital expenditures
  • Public-private development plans and processes
  • Facility investments for student experience and student engagement
  • Facility plans and features that improve recruitment and enrollment
  • Accommodating new program and space demands without physical expansion
  • Features and strategies for interaction and collaboration
  • Facility features for campus wellness and health
  • Space and features that support innovation and entrepreneurship
  • Physical consolidation/centralization plans for academic programs and/or campuses
  • Plans and features that engage and integrate the campus and public communities
  • Master planning strategies for program location, utilization of facilities, and campus space


More details will be available shortly.

If you would like to participate as an exhibitor or sponsor, or would like updates please email Marketing@TradelineInc.com or call (925) 254-1744 x 119.


Who should attend?

This conference is open to all college and university employees, consultants, and service providers with interest in the planning, design, construction, and operation of college and university facilities and campuses. This includes capital project teams, project managers, facility and space planners, facility managers, construction managers, architects, engineers, financial officers, capital planners, and university administrative staff. Product vendors must be sponsors or exhibitors to attend.