Focused facilities stewardship and planning across higher education is more critical than ever. Demands are moving at a lightning pace and financial constraints continue to impact performance. Tough decisions must be made. Sightlines’ solutions provide the reliable data and strategic perspective facilities leaders need to effectively communicate facilities priorities, properly allocate resources and optimize decision-making.
Facilities Intelligence For Better Decision-Making
Facilities Benchmarking & Analysis
Since facilities are critical to the success of your institution, you need reliable data and informed guidance to confidently evaluate decisions around facility risk, resource allocation and project selection. This strategic and objective analysis of performance gives you the power to reduce the risk of project deferral and develop a facilities action plan that can be clearly communicated and appropriately funded.
- Access the nation’s largest facilities database, featuring over 200 performance metrics
- Instill a common vocabulary that aligns space, capital and operations needs
- Project capital renewal needs and develop strategic funding plans
- Create a baseline for continuous measurement, comparison and optimization
Facilities Assessment & Planning
Taking a bite out of deferred maintenance goes beyond simply creating a project list. It’s time to go beyond the traditional facilities condition assessment to make the problem more manageable. Sightlines provides a comprehensive and actionable capital plan that strategically guides facilities investment decisions and ties directly to institutional mission and financial capabilities.
- Generate a credible list of asset conditions and deficiencies
- Integrate operational perspective to secure buy-in and confirm recommendations
- Strategically segment buildings to define areas of emphasis and optimize project selection
- Develop multi-year capital plans based on mission-driven outcomes
Space Utilization
Are you getting the most from your largest asset? A typical classroom is only occupied 60% of academic hours. Sightlines helps you optimize the use of existing assets to avoid unnecessary costs and provide a foundation for strategic campus growth. Find the negotiation space on campus to fairly evaluate space ownership and usage with stakeholders and make more informed decisions that secure institution-wide sponsorship.
- Understand space usage patterns to right-size classrooms
- Change the perception of space “ownership”
- Understand the cost implications of current and anticipated utilization levels
- Target capital improvements to maximize impact
Campus Sustainability
Ease the burden of continuous data collection and reporting and spend more time advocating and implementing campus policies that minimize impact on our planet. Whether the goal is to measure your carbon footprint, align recommendations with business objectives, or fulfill STARS, Carbon Commitment, Sierra Club, and/or Princeton Review reporting requirements, Sightlines provides the insight and proven strategies that help your institution enhance its sustainability efforts.
- Quantify sustainability performance across a broad spectrum of indicators
- Relieve staff of burdensome reporting requirements
- Benchmark efforts against peers and best-in-class institutions
- Communicate sustainability needs and progress to senior leadership
Integrated Facilities Program [Small Campus Solution]
Small colleges and universities experience many of the same challenges as their larger peers around space management, deferred maintenance and funding – often with fewer available resources. By delivering a comprehensive, data-driven view of facilities performance and ongoing tactical support for strategic improvement initiatives, Sightlines can help small campuses optimize resources, identify investment priorities and sustain progress.
- Develop a strategic plan integrating historical performance, condition inventory and space usage data
- Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders to review data and formalize plans
- Identify strategic initiatives that support campus priorities
- Ongoing guidance and performance tracking against action plan