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Estates Management MARCH 30 2007 Estates TSH-30-03-07-01 16/3/07 10:28 am Page 1 Estates Management MARCH 30 2007 Recycling proficiency Green Gown Award winners Estates TSH-30-03-07-02-03 16/3/07 10:30 am Page 1 l l l l l ESTATES n Diversity of subjects and modularisation n The growth of further education n Role of student residence in learning. Exploit your The physical environment has always been an important factor in the learning process, although it is difficult to pin down its precise effect. The Times Good property University Guide notes that five of its top ten universities have the highest library and facilities expenditure levels. Research into student attitudes to selecting a university, conducted by the Sheffield Hallam Facilities potential Management Centre, found that high- quality environments had an effect. The physical environment of an institution is crucial to the A more telling example comes from the learning experience. Paul Watson surveys efforts to adapt further education sector, which is about a third of the way through a £4.5 billion facilities to student aspirations and to the 21st century capital replacement programme. The first projects are coming on stream. There has been a rise in the number of applications of niversities have been a as a whole have not kept pace. The overall between 50 per cent and 80 per cent, and remarkably successful business size of the estate is estimated to have also evidence of higher learning outcomes model for the past 500 years grown by less than 10 per cent in the past and more staff satisfaction from teaching. and have adapted to change decade, while full-time staff numbers There have been major improvements with a few short, sharp have fallen slightly. This has lowered staff- to the quality of the university estate in the shocks. An integral part of to-student ratios and changed teaching past few years. Spending has risen over five Utheir success has come from their physical and learning practices. years and fewer buildings are classified as identity. Now change is the order of the There are also implications for the estate being in poor condition or worse. Even so, day again. The UK higher education in the pedagogical changes that have almost a third of the estate is still regarded student population has risen by more than affected learning and teaching, such as: as being in this category. And there is a a third in the past decade, from 1.7 million n The changed nature of tutorials £4 billion maintenance backlog problem to 2.3 million. This has put pressure on the n Teaching large classes of buildings not adequate for purpose. The estate, and projections anticipate 300,000 n Reduced contact time cost of rectifying these has risen by 41 per more students over five years. We are now n Growth of IT and self-directed learning cent since 2000. While the proportion of in one of the short, sharp shock phases. n Changed demands on students through poor-quality buildings has fallen, the cost Staff numbers and the university estate “earning and learning” of improving them has risen. A scrub-up for the iconic artefacts of a The revolutionary face the choice between demolition and former architectural consultant to Essex, rebuilding and extensive renovation. says the decade was a time of unparalleled campuses of the Sixties Quite a few are staying with their unique convergence between the visions of vice- are showing their age and buildings but freshening them up. Essex chancellors and architects. Today, University has spent £1 million a year over partnerships between academe and many are booked in for a the past seven years, while Lancaster industry mean premises have to reflect facelift, says Becky McCall University has allocated £27 million the standards of the commercial world. over five years. Andrew Mark Swindlehurst is director Nightingale, director of estate of estate management at IN THE SAME WAY that the miniskirt and management at Essex, says: ‘Instead of Lancaster. He says: “We recently the Beatles came to symbolise the “Instead of demolishing, we’ve demolishing, renovated the management fashions of the Sixties, so reinforced decided to work on maintaining we’ve decided school with a large open-plan, concrete and glass campuses came to the good and reinventing the adaptable floor space. There’s stand for a new era in education. These use of the space.” to maintain also a pedestrian walkway iconic institutions reflected a new wave Many see these Sixties the good and with a coffee shop and hub of freethinking and intellectual rigour. But constructions as weird and reinvent the use area to discuss ideas.” the concrete monoliths are approaching wonderful artefacts of bygone of the space’ Turn up at the University of their 50th year and the cracks are times. Nicholas Hare of Nicholas East Anglia in Norwich and you showing. Vice-chancellors and architects Hare Architects LLP, London, could be forgiven for believing 2 MARCH 30 2007 THE TIMES HIGHER Estates TSH-30-03-07-02-03 16/3/07 10:31 am Page 2 ESTATES l l l l l The pressure on estate budgets also teaching, learning and research environ- comes from the growth in student ments, contribute to the student w numbers, which has led to a push to cut experience and be capable of being CONTENTS unit costs, principally to release funds for maintained at an appropriate cost in terms priorities such as pay and equipment. of the institution’s recurrent funding. But this approach assumes the current But defining “affordable” requires university estate is suited to the needs estimates of future revenues and costs of teaching, learning and and of expenditure allocated research. We also know that to maintaining the estate. space use across the sector ‘Institutions may This means having a detailed is about 20 per cent. Many be struggling picture of space needs today institutions may be struggling and in future, including to maintain accommodation to maintain considerations such as: that is not only unsuitable, but accommodation n The growing emphasis on the unneeded. that is not only environment and sustainability We are aware of one n The need for flexible and institution that plans to review unsuitable, but adaptable space all accommodation on its unneeded’ n Efficient and effective use principal campus. The move of space PROPERTY POTENTIAL was prompted by its health and n Financial viability. The state of the estate . 2 safety liability, assessed at tens of millions Getting this right involves understanding A SCRUB-UP FOR ICONS of pounds. Management is reluctant factors such as staff and student numbers, Sixties structures are being revamped . 2 to commit funds to replace fire alarms, contact hours, management practices, remove asbestos and renew cladding estate size and configuration, and growth IT’S JUST LIKE A JIGSAW when the completed environment will plans. While the full implications can be The daily dilemmas of Essex’s estate still be a compromise between today’s difficult to estimate, doing so can offer management director . 4 and tomorrow’s needs. insight and project benefits to institutions. PICK THE RIGHT SOLUTIONS The preference is for a much more radical History suggests that much of the Higher education sets the campus renewal programme, which will sector may regard change with healthy environmental agenda . 5 require significantly more capital but will suspicion. But there are indications that SIGN UP FOR SPACE EXPLORATION result in accommodation better tailored more radical reviews of the estate are A new assessment model to the institution’s needs. under way and is generating significant for building needs . 6 Against this background, the much long-term rewards.l discussed concept of the “affordable URBAN ATTRACTIONS estate” needs to be better understood. Paul Watson is a partner of the Campuses are key players Such facilities should offer high-quality property advisers GVA Grimley. in sustainable regeneration . 6 ECO-WARRIORS BATTLE GETTY TO CLEAN UP THE ACT The winners of this year’s bygone era Green Gown Awards . 8 CUT THE GAS, SHED MORE LIGHT Awards showcase best practice . 10 you were in a time warp. Rick Mather Architects rose to the challenge of EN SUITE AND SOUR extending the campus without sacrificing Private property portfolios its 1960s aspect. Rick Mather says: “We are not to everyone’s taste . 12 drew up a masterplan that respected the STUDENTS FILL THE PLACES, original concept of a concrete ship floating WE FOCUS ON THE SPACES in a sea of green. But we brought the Estate managers must pedestrian circulation down to ground balance competing demands . 12 level.” One of the major successes of the GO FOR WOW FACTOR, BUT… UEA project is the student residences, which Budgets, builders and blueprints prey have such highly efficient energy retention on the mind of an estates director . 14 that they do not require central heating. Rick Mather Architects are also building CARBON DATING AGENCY a design academy for Liverpool John A consortium offers help in reducing Moores University, adjacent to the Roman a campus’s carbon footprint . 14 Catholic Cathedral. The challenge is to build in a style complementary to this 1960s icon while satisfying the functional w Transfixed in ‘66: students on the demands of the present.l construction site at Essex University THE TIMES HIGHER MARCH 30 2007 3 Estates TSH-30-03-07-04-05 16/3/07 10:32 am Page 1 l l l l l ESTATES w A DAY IN THE LIFE It’s just like a jigsaw The tasks for Essex’s estate management director Andrew Nightingale involve slotting together ideas on funding, erecting a wind turbine and tackling the planning committee FEBRUARY 2007 in maintenance (yes, I know all estates as well as productive.
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