I have appended the Campus Master Plan report from this weeks “Sue Writes” as it encapsulates the information shared at the recent Campus Master Plan Reference Group meeting I attended last week.
I have been asked to join this group as the Library representative, and will act as a conduit for any issues, questions or queries that you would like raised as the Campus Master Plan work progresses. Please send anything you would like raised at this forum through to me as an email.
The Reference Group has been created as a forum to ask questions and receive explanations as to why decisions have been made by the Campus Master Plan Working Group. I will use CounterCulture as my report back mechanism.
There are ten campus planning and design principles –
Student focus
Promoting excellence in research
Effectiveness in learning and teaching
Indigenous recognition
Cultural expression and social inclusiveness
Economic efficiancy and environmental sustainability
Community relations
Activity concentrated at Ilam
Respect and build on good architecture and urban planning
Heritage in landscape (Botanical heritage, importance of campus streams)
The following is an extract from ‘Sue Writes”
Campus Master Plan
Work has begun again on preparing a Campus Master Plan for the University. To be able to make decisions about the future of our campus, we need quite detailed information on the quality of our buildings. In the previous draft of the plan, this was half an A4 page, so very general. The focus had been more on potential new builds or specific major refurbishments as opposed to the effective management of all our building stock and what we wanted to do with it in the future.
What is envisaged is a document that outlines a vision and possibilities for UC with regard to space planning, together with data that will help inform decisions about what we do with our physical estate in the short to medium term. This data will include:
• All the buildings in a “precinct” with details of floor area, seismic performance against the new requirements of the Building Code, assessment of fitness for purpose
• Space utilisation based on data to be collected in September
• Plans for potential future occupancy – growth, teaching and research requirements etc.
It will draw upon the work already completed in the draft CMP, but will add new scenarios because of the opportunities offered by the earthquakes.
The first meeting of the CMP Reference Group was held on Friday 26 August, with colleagues from SMT, colleges, service units, UCSA and the study body. This group will meet on a monthly basis.
A CMP working group, mainly made up of Learning Resources staff but including the consultant architect, will meet fortnightly (probably by video conference) so that we can get a draft plan to SMT and Council by the end of 2011.
As expected, CERA have requested the structural engineering reports on our major buildings. This will be provided in September, when the modeling work and analysis is completed. We plan to provide this information to the University community as well as CERA.