Space Utilisation at Queen Margaret University Benefits and Challenges EAUC 14th Annual Conference
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Space Utilisation at Queen Margaret UniversityBenefits and Challenges
EAUC 14th Annual Conference
Presented by: Ivan Meyer
Overview
• Background: Relocation
• Implications for Space Management– Challenges– Benefits
• Future
Space changes: Practice
• Open plan offices
• Separation of students and staff
• Drop-in rooms
• Hot desks• Centralised timetabling – Explicit goals to improve
space utilisation and reporting.
Space changes: Practice
• Open plan offices
• Separation of students and staff
• Drop-in rooms
• Hot desks
• Centralised timetabling
Challenges: Timetabling
• Change management– Communication
• Increased process complexity– Less space, different space, shared space
• Student experience• New technology: Moved from a manual timetabling
system with electronic bookings to automated timetabling and booking.
Benefits: Timetabling
• Balance: Utilisation vs student experience
• Automated conflict prevention (staff, students, rooms, availability)
• Reporting• Campus-wide awareness and
participation (Plasma screens)
• Modelling the effects of change
Future• Adapt to changing academic portfolio
• More ad-hoc commercial use
• Better space-to-need matching, without changing space
• Fine tune student experience constraints
• Increase utilisation