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Team Build: Managing Strategic Facility Initiatives
Presenter(s): John R. Benson, Linbeck; Troy Garrett, Linbeck ; Frances M. Gast, Rhode Island School of Design; David W. Short, Lotti Krishan & Short, Inc.
Convener: Bill Scott, Linbeck

Colleges and universities must constantly adjust their programs--and the facilities that serve them--to changing needs and opportunities. The need to internally "staff up" for such efforts can reduce focus on strategic initiatives. To help, Linbeck has integrated former campus administrators and faculty, architects, and other industry experts into its professional staff and developed TeamBuild¨, a strategic facility planning, program, and project management (PM) approach. TeamBuild¨ emphasizes conducting proper assessment and definition of capital projects prior to incurring the expense of design. Individuals who have utilized TeamBuild¨ discuss the opportunities and limits of using consulting PM, and how TeamBuild's¨ wide menu of services benefited selected organizations.


This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-eighth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–38, in Miami Beach, FL (USA), in July of 2003.

Audiocassettes and MP3's (on CD's) of these and other SCUP–38 sessions are available for purchase here.


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