2007 / 2008 Reports
Implementing SMG guidance
This puts forward practical advice to HEIs incorporating or looking to incorporate the recent space management guidance from the SMG.
Implementing SMG Guidance 2007.pdf (320k)
UK Higher Education Space Management Project – Evaluation
A report to the UK higher education funding councils
SMGEvaluation041108.doc (200k)
Space Management Project: Summary.
Effective space management in universities and colleges can provide measurable benefits not only to institutional finances but also to the academic experience of students and staff. This summary report, prepared by Kilner Planning under the auspices of the UK HE Space Management Group (SMG) gives an overview of the work of the Space Management Project (SMP).
summary.pdf (335k)
Space Utilisation: Practice, performance and guidelines.
This report by Kilner Planning reviews practice and performance in space utilisation and develops additional guidelines for taking a more strategic approach to utilisation.
utilisation.pdf (480k)
Space Management: Review of space norms.
This study by Kilner Planning and London Economics researches the scope for providing updated space norms for the higher education (HE) sector. It sets out a method using principles similar to those underpinning space norms to calculate indicative space needs based on HEIs' own particular profiles of academic activity and methods of delivery. This approach, for which a framework is provided, is likely to be of most interest to HEIs which would like to better understand the capacity of their estates; to start from first principles in getting an insight into what type and how much space may be needed; and to model the effect of changes in student and staff numbers.
Space Management Project: Case studies.
This report by Kilner Planning brings together three case studies which explore different aspects of space management in individual institutions. The case studies focus on issues which were highlighted as being of particular interest to many institutions during the survey of space management practice in Phase One of the Space Management Project and in feedback from Space Management Group seminars. They are:
- Queen Margaret University College – The Relocate Project
- University of Newcastle upon Tyne – Versatile research buildings
- Sheffield Hallam University – Promoting effective utilisation.
casestudies.pdf (500k)
Managing space: a review of English further education and HE overseas.
This study by Kilner Planning and London Economics considers approaches to space management outside the UK HE sector, to see how they might contribute to UK HE space management guidance. It investigates the method used by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to assess space needs in the further education (FE) sector in England, and researches examples of higher education (HE) space planning and management in other parts of the world.
FEandoverseas.pdf (250k)
March 2006 Phase 2 Reports:
The first reports of Phase 2 of the Space Management Project focus on promoting space efficiency in building design (Alexi Marmot Associates) and the impact on space of future changes in higher education (Institute of Education)
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