COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of facility planning and management. It covers the gathering of pertinent information, setting project goals/objectives and assigning project team; the influence of curricula and/or company vision, central project model and technology facility principles; the principles of facility planning including space planning, space and equipment utilization and planning for technology and infrastructure; surveying existing facility; the functional planning research and education/commercial specifications; and planning/construction procedures covering budgeting process, estimating processes, scheduling processes, building commissioning and operations estimating. 

 

Further, this course will also cover the development of facilities through HVAC planning and operation, electrical/telecommunications planning and management, lightning planning and selection, plumbing planning and operation and storage planning and management; the acoustical planning and management, planning for future technologies, signage planning and management and information systems planning; the life safety planning including building codes, ADA special considerations, security planning and management, facility operations safety and code/plan review process; and the manager/user liability and equipment testing. 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the equipment selection and specification; the equipment inventory process, equipment selection process and equipment specification process; the furniture, furnishings and equipment; the function, maintenance of equipment and product procurement; managing facilities and maintenance planning; the post occupancy evaluation, operations plan, future growth planning and lab operations testing; and the affective and cognitive domain evaluation.