A recent conversation at the 2020 P3 Higher Education Summit focused on overcoming the scale and capital costs of transitioning to 21st Century energy systems. View the full video here, and read the session description below: With campuses facing shrinking budgets, growing deferred maintenance, and reliability challenges with a global need to rapidly reduce …
A recent conversation at the 2020 P3 Higher Education Summit focused on the State of the Higher Ed P3 Industry. View the full video here, and read the session description below: In this session, the co-leaders of development advisory firm Brailsford & Dunlavey’s higher education practice, Brad Noyes and Jeff Turner will provide an …
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By Eric Richard, Senior Analyst, Brailsford & Dunlavey. Full bio below. Introduction Many colleges and universities use public-private partnerships (P3) to deliver new student housing projects to accommodate demand for on-campus housing. When planned and implemented correctly, these deals are an effective way to deliver a new housing project efficiently and in some cases with …
By Andrew Lieber, Associate, Brailsford & Dunlavey. Full bio below. The term “public-private partnership” (“P3”) is being thrown around so often in collegiate athletics facility development these days, it might as well be the basketball in a run-and-gun offense. In fact, every athletics department has taken notice of Oak View Group’s deal to deliver …
For years, colleges and universities have successfully monetized their non–mission critical real estate assets. In this Q&A, Kim Wright sheds light on why the practice is likely to become increasingly common in the coming years, focusing on the monetization of campus land for commercial development. What is monetization? Wright: To put it simply, monetization as …
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The Campus Energy & Sustainability Podcast explores innovations and challenges in sustainability for higher education and corporate campuses. This episode focuses on the University of Virginia (UVA)’s Delta Force, a self-funded building energy efficiency and sustainability program. Note: UVA’s program is not a P3, but it functions the same way a P3 program would, and sheds light …
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Gene McDonald wrote “Key considerations for a successful P3 project” for HED’s blog. The article foresees a post-pandemic world of public funding shortages and in which “a general ‘re-tooling’ will be required,” and outlines the value of alternative delivery methods. (April 2020)
Doug Smith wrote “3 Years In: Ohio State Comprehensive Energy Agreement” for Energy Services magazine (p. 12). The article features an interview with Scott Potter, OSU’s Senior Director of Comprehensive Energy Management. The same issue has articles on topics like the University of Iowa’s utility P3 (p. 24), as well the University of North Dakota’s steam …
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The Campus Energy & Sustainability Podcast explores innovations and challenges in sustainability for higher education and corporate campuses. This episode focuses on a large, on-site solar carport installation on Michigan State University’s (MSU) campus. At the time it came online, it was the largest such installation in the United States. In this episode, Wolfgang Bauer, University Distinguished Professor …
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James Vigil wrote “Bundling Auxiliary Services: How do we do better with what we have? Here is a new approach to the organization of service lines to consider” for Spaces4Learning (previously called College Planning & Management). The article makes a case for administrators prevailing in the face of stretched budgets via a partnership-friendly operating model that can not only …
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