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 …
By Dr. Matthew Brown, President, Capstone Management Partners. Full bio below. In the spring of 2009, colleges and universities were scrambling to address concerns over the novel H1N1 Influenza outbreak and developing pandemic plans. In August of that year, the CDC advised against closing schools, and institutions examined contingencies for a variety of scenarios. One …
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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By Brian Dugan, Managing Director at Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate. Bio below. Header image: ©Architectural Fotographics/Steve Swalwell This article discusses the “Progressive P3 model.” This model is already common in higher ed P3s, but is less common in other state, county, and municipal P3s. The article underscores the importance of leveraging this procurement model …
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By Bray Brunkhurst, Vice President of Sales for Aramark. Full bio below. HIGHER EDUCATION IS FACING UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGES. Lack of affordability, increasing public scrutiny, unfavorable demographics, poor use of space, and rising deferred maintenance backlogs are challenges that higher education has been facing. Additionally, the unanticipated closure of campuses during the COVID-19 pandemic has …
By Jessica Rosenberg, Brailsford & Dunlavey This article is the fifth in a 5-part series. Part 1 offered background on innovation districts—what they are, where they’re located, how colleges and universities relate, how P3s relate, etc. Part 2 featured a Q&A with Brian Darmody, CEO of the Association for University Research Parks. Part 3 …
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By Jessica Figenholtz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Higher Education Practice Leader, Associate Principal, and by David Damon, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Higher Education Practice Leader of Perkins and Will. Full bios below. It started with Netflix. Then Uber. Then Grubhub, Instacart, and countless other disruptors. What will be the next disruptive change for Higher Education? Generation …
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