- Put campus facilities and assets to their best uses
- Driving energy and operational savings
- See all campus facilities at a glance and properly allocate space
- Meet cost recovery and grant funding requirements
With such a diverse composition of buildings, universities and colleges face unique challenges when it comes to managing their facilities. They have to balance the requirements of grant funding and cost recovery, while simultaneously attempting to streamline operations, maximize facility use, and minimize burgeoning costs as enrollment expands. Fortunately, Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) / Connected Portfolio Intelligence Platforms (CPIP) like TRIRIGA, Maximo Real Estate and Facilities, ServiceNow, Eptura, and more, can track and manage all of this for them.
University Capital Projects Solutions
Universities and colleges are frequently faced with aging buildings in need of new construction or renovations, which can be costly and time-consuming. Software solutions, like TRIRIGA’s Capital Projects Manager, deliver complete capital projects and facilities renovation management with tools that control project scope, time, and cost. IWMS/CPIP solutions help to reduce risk, and ensure projects finish on time and within budget. They even track and manage vendor’s information.
University Asset Management Solutions
Facilities Managers in the Higher Education industry are tasked with overseeing numerous buildings, often across many campuses. IWMS/CPIP solutions, such as IBM TRIRIGA, offer tools to manage assets of entire campuses centrally, eliminating redundant processes and inventories. They also have the ability to manage building equipment and assets over time in order to reduce maintenance expenses and ensure delivery of high–quality service. While optimizing operations and maintenance spending is useful to every institution, it’s especially valuable when experiencing tighter maintenance budgets.
University Space Management Solutions
Given the increasing costs for planning, building, and maintaining higher education facilities, intelligent management of these spaces is critical. Space allocation and optimization tools, like TRIRIGA’s, will help you make allocation decisions based on CAD drawings of all your buildings. Tools like these ensure you never have to guess how much space is available at a given facility. This is particularly useful when deciding how many people can work efficiently in the space available, giving you adequate space to accommodate growing programs. Tracking and managing your space in this manner can guarantee money isn’t spent on unused square footage.
Added Value for Higher Education
While organizations in many different industries use IBM TRIRIGA to streamline procedures and get the most from their budgets, Higher Education institutions will find more value than most in these features from eCIFM:
- Extensive experience in higher education both as implementers and end-users
- Indirect Cost Recovery: Use Principal Investigator to track grant funding and to match all grant funding to specific spaces on campus
- Campus-Wide Floor Plans: Precise maps show panoramic views of all campus operations for easier centralized management as well as space planning decision support
- Mobile Apps: Put the power of TRIRIGA in the hands of teams onsite, allowing them to enter job-related details on the spot. This improves information quality overall, which helps you make better data-driven decisions.
- Driving energy and operational savings
- Improving building performance—and ROI
- Tracking and maintaining facility analytics, including utilization, density, vacancy rates and chargeback