Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Planning issues/questions for discussion a. Review past master plans and other planning materials and studies, and incorporate the relevant findings, goals, objectives and recommendations of prior planning studies into the updated Campus Master Plan. b. Maintain the historic context and landscape that define the character of the campus. c. Consider overall land use and projections for necessary strategic property acquisition and disposal. d. Review and integrate long-standing capital improvement needs (for example, the repurposing of existing facilities). e. Incorporate capital investment and budgeting strategies for deferred maintenance, site infrastructure and new construction, and recommend options for assessing, tracking and forecasting these needs. f. Evaluate opportunities for cost-savings and efficiencies. g. Traditional, transitional and transparent campus – evolution of education. Where do we need to be? Does a traditional campus have a future? h. Transformation of the pedagogy, right sizing, etc. i. Dissolving campus edges? Outreach, digital, satellites embedded into business, the community, etc. j. Campus preparedness? Planning for the next challenge, etc. Future proofing? k. Recommendations to address the Kansas Board of Regents standards for reducing the campus footprint and current deferred maintenance. 2. Academic program facility needs a. Review existing space utilization and program needs for individual units. b. Utilizing existing resources, assess the existing space for most academic, research and support units, excluding Housing and Athletics. c. Validate the benchmark space utilization for various departments and room types to other comparable institutions. d. Provide ideas and metrics to help establish a Space Policy Manual, focusing on more efficient use of space. e. Assess current and proposed academic program requirements for a select group of academic programs as identified by the steering committee. f. Assess related ancillary needs that support the University’s mission. 3. Buildings and built environment a. Analyze the condition of existing buildings, including functional longevity and deferred maintenance needs of the existing building stock. b. The Kansas Board of Regents concluded a general facilities condition audit of most of the mission critical facilities in fall 2020. In addition to the KBOR report, the university has a more comprehensive facilities condition audit (VFA) that provides addition data on the condition of the facilities. Evaluate and incorporate those findings into the master planning process and reports. c. Establish a decision-making strategy regarding the number of buildings to be analyzed, as well as level of detail. d. Incorporate information and priorities developed in the concurrent athletics facility study that began in 2022 4. Landscape and property a. Analyze current land uses and identify strategies for land use, circulation, parking and service. b. Provide recommendations for right sizing campus by analyzing both future growth opportunities beyond current boundaries, and reductions in building inventory. 5. Infrastructure and utilities a. Analyze infrastructure needs, including utilities planning and information technology. b. Utilize the KBOR facilities condition audit and VFA to analyze the condition and needs of campus site and utility infrastructure. c. Evaluate in detail the electrical distribution, domestic water, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, steam, chilled water and heating hot water district systems, and incorporate utility systems planning in the master plan. d. General assessment of the infrastructure and utility systems should identify opportunities for greater efficiency of operation. e. Review current energy usage and identify probable capacity requirements at full build-out, based on a 20-year projection. This will be a general assessment and plan development. f. Provide recommendations for an energy management plan, informed by the analysis of facilities, infrastructure and future needs. g. The master plan must establish a decision-making strategy regarding prioritization of capital investments that addresses long-term campus sustainability, energy efficiency and energy conservation. h. Review and provide recommendations regarding potential alternative energy sources or related improvements i. Incorporate considerations for a climate action plan as part of the master planning process, with the initial goal of capping emissions to those that the University already generates, and to ultimately create a carbon-neutral environmental impact policy and approach to campus growth and operations.