Overview
MU Campus Facilities-Space Planning & Management (SP&M) has worked with the university’s master planner and the Campus Space Committee to define and move forward the Strategic Space Reduction and Relocation Plan. The result has been the reduction of deficient facility square footage and has reallocated savings to buildings that improve and support student success, outreach, and research.
Facility Condition Needs Index (FCNI): Mizzou is using facility condition data to guide space reduction, focusing on highly deficient buildings and opportunities for more efficient campus use. Learn more about the Facility Condition Needs Index and its role in campus decisions.
Our Role
SP&M is well suited for the challenge, as the department’s staff helps academic and other units across campus translate instruction, research and public service programs into physical facility needs.
- SP&M provides and maintains an accurate set of campus floor plans, space inventory data and campus maps for all campus-owned and leased facilities.
- SP&M also works with deans, department chairs, faculty and staff to develop new building programming studies, provide space utilization studies, and recommend space assignments and reassignments to the Chancellor and Provost.
As MU undergoes a campus-wide transformation outlined in the strategic plan, “Achieving Excellence Together“, a goal for Operations is to “reduce deficient facility square footage in order to reallocate savings to buildings that improve and support student success, outreach and research.” With a commitment to data-driven decision making and transparency, the Stewardship Model will be refined to include a process for space reduction and investing recaptured operations dollars to create, support and maintain existing and future high-performing buildings.
Campus Coordination
SP&M coordinates space reduction and relocation efforts with university, college and school leadership, as well as other entities and divisions including Planning, Design & Construction; Energy Management; Landscape Services; the ADA and Disability Center; Parking and Transportation; Facility Operations; building coordinators and others.
Auxiliary vs. Education & General Space
Buildings on campus fall into two different categories, each with different funding models.
- Auxiliary spaces, such as a bookstore or residence hall, generate income, which they may use to fund repairs, renovation projects or new construction.
- Educational and General (E&G) spaces, also known as academic and administrative space, rely on general revenue allocation to fund maintenance repairs, renovations, demolition or new construction.