Pre-Conference Session Information

Building The Ultimate Roadmap to a Smart Campus

Speakers:

• Darlene Pope, President, Planon
• Chris Ryans, Planon

There's a lot of buzz about having a "smart campus" in order to maximize operational efficiencies, meet sustainability goals, and meet the demands of today's high-tech students. But what does that mean and how do you get there? In this session, Planon will guide you through how to define your business and technical requirements, develop a holistic technology strategy, draft a master plan, and build a roadmap towards achieving a smart campus. They will take you from where you are now to where you want to be, and provide both a strategic and tactical plan to build the ultimate roadmap to a fully smart campus.

From BiM to Operations to Strategic Asset Planning

Speakers:

• Randy Walsh, Chief Sales Officer

In this session, AssetWorks will discuss the challenges with BIM deliverables, from partnering with contractors to how you get usable data in your maintenance and operations system from said deliverables. Not only is it important for driving space details, but it is key to the inception of your organization's long-term strategic asset planning. AssetWorks will illustrate these topics with their solution as a backdrop; however, they apply to all IWMS implementations and best-of-breed deployments.

Learning and growing together with Autodesk University Peer Exchange

Speakers:

• Tara Brice- Sr. Customer Success Manager, Autodesk
• Mark Mergenschroer- Customer Success Manager- Tandem, Autodesk
• Joe Porostosky- Director, Facilities Information and Technology Services, Ohio State University
• Andy Berg- VP, Construction Technology and Innovation, Messer Construction Co.  

This class will discuss how working closely with your peers can help you and your university grow to its highest potential in terms of data and technology. Autodesk offers a unique experience of gathering any and all universities to network, learn best practices, and hear about advanced workflows from your peers. Here from Messer Construction & The Ohio State University on how they developed a complex BIM standard and how they can leverage Autodesk Tandem to take that data through to facility maintenance.

Building Data for Owners

Speakers:

• T.J. Meehan, AIA, LEEP AP – Vice President of Technology Solutions – CADD Microsystems, Inc.
• Justin Friedman – Practice Manager, Facilities Management – CADD Microsystems, Inc.

Come learn how the data captured during design & construction can benefit building owners at handover. We will discuss the concepts related to digital data for the design/build/operate sector, including the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process. We will talk about how it is typically captured, the importance of "good" data, how it is used by FM solutions, best practices, and show concrete examples. This presentation will benefit both building owners and their consulting teams and will be a deeper dive into this topic than the conference breakup session of the same name. It will include more detail on the topics and more examples.

Keeping Your Facilities Condition Assessments Current

Speakers:

• Stu Rich, Campus Facilities Industry Lead, Cartegraph
• Jack Hunt, Education Business Development Manager, Cartegraph

Facilities condition assessments (FCAs) are key to your long-range budget forecasting. Don’t let them go stale! During this presentation, you’ll uncover how routine maintenance activities and capital projects can be used to regularly refresh your underlying assessment data. Instead of waiting years for your next full-blown assessment, Stu and Jack will explain how a more proactive approach can improve forecast accuracy, streamline project prioritization, and help your team allocate resources better.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the relationship between facilities condition assessments and long-range budgeting.
2. Evaluate if your FCAs should be contracted out or performed in-house.
3. Summarize the importance of UNIFORMAT II and why facility managers should care.
4. Leverage information from CMMS and capital projects to ensure long-range budgets maintain their accuracy over time.

Building a Geospatial Strategy: What it is, why you need one, and how to get started

Speakers:

• Brian Baldwin, Senior Solution Engineer, Esri
• Jefferey Ulricksen, Manager of Space Allocation & Analysis, University of Rhode Island

What goals do you hope to achieve on your campus in 3 to 5 years? Do you have the tools and plan in place to get you there? Campuses are dynamic and ever evolving webs of overlapping projects, teams, people, and processes – all of which are inherently spatial. Yet, much of this data and information is still managed and maintained in siloed systems that are difficult to share and analyze. GIS is probably used on your campus, but is the potential of this tool being maximized? A Geospatial Strategy defines how a university will use GIS to achieve its goals. It is a business-oriented plan that includes considerations of the people, processes, and technology needed to meet your goals and overcome challenges. It is also an iterative process that will need to be revisited and refined. This session will not be about demonstrating technology or discussing solutions, it will focus on the process of defining your long-term goals and will put the framework in place for building a Geospatial Strategy to achieve them.

Data-Driven Decision Making: Connect Data & Effective Decision Making to Refocus and Rationalize the Campus of the Future

Speakers:

• Brian Haines, Chief Strategy Officer, FM:Systems

Everything can change in a moment. Consider what campuses looked like last year – and imagine what they might look like in another year. Despite anticipating change, many universities remain uncertain when it comes to measuring space-related changes. The more advanced and comprehensive the data sets you have available, the easier it will be to find answers to your most important space planning questions.

Join FM:Systems' Chief Strategy Officer Brian Haines as he walks through creating an ever-ready campus through data-driven insights and effective decision making. Learn how to gather key space insights, determine the tools needed to make strategic change, and use easily accessible data to quickly create flexible and resilient spaces to adjust to new challenges and campus needs.
Key

Takeaways:
1. Identify ways to refocus the way you think about campus space and how to rationalize existing spaces to serve your mission.
2. Define the metrics that matter in order to figure out how much space you need
3. Discover how to adapt and optimize for the future with the right data to make informed campus space decisions.
4. How to use data to create flexible and resilient space across campus

Electronic Document Management

Speakers:

• Jennifer Sample, Technical Solutions Consultant, Hagerman & Company

Higher education campus facilities accumulate massive amounts of documentation for their assets, buildings, and site infrastructure. The challenge becomes overwhelming when you think about manually accessing, archiving, and properly managing decades worth of drawings and documents. As the volume of projects and installed assets increases, the task becomes truly impossible to do without an effective, flexible, powerful software solution. With the right Facilities Drawing/Document Management System and partner, you can manage all of the documentation effectively, during the project and operational lifecycle of the buildings and infrastructure, including historical information in a neutral format.

Meridian provides a comprehensive solution for managing data at educational facilities. Meridian is a powerful platform that is easy to configure, and secure, helping to provide data access, accuracy, completeness, greater ease of compliance, and better-controlled information. Analytics and a mobile app are also available.

Join Hagerman & Company to explore the power of MeridiaNn.