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How Big: Counting Space
Presenter(s): Ira Fink, Ira Fink & Associates, Inc
Convener: John T. Byrd, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Size counts. How space is measured in higher education is often misunderstood and more often misinterpreted. This unique presentation will describe, analyze, and provide many ways to look at the campus space inventory. This session will help the novice, the expert, and the spatially challenged understand how space in rooms, departments, and buildings is classified, measured, and managed. Regardless of whether the space issue is one of efficiency, equity, expansion, or excellence, this presentation will provide the overview and basic units of measurement needed to understand space and analyze space projections.


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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