Dear Infrastructure and Sustainability team,
With Strategic Facilities Visioning moving ahead at full speed, I encourage everyone in our organization to follow the initiative as it takes shape over the coming year. The campus is currently engaged in coordinated visioning processes, including Academic Futures, Financial Futures, Strategic Facilities Visioning, and the Diversity, Inclusion and Academic Excellence Plan. These coordinated processes will shape teaching and learning, and the infrastructure that supports those endeavors, for decades to come. The unified, long-term campus vision for facilities that our effort aims to achieve will impact not just the the work we all do every day; it will guide our overall approach to providing and maintaining world-class spaces for the campus.
I want to commend Campus Architect Bill Haverly and Capital Planning Strategist Ida Mae Isaac for orchestrating a successful kickoff to Strategic Facilities Visioning. Their work leading this initiative, along with our consultants from AECOM Strategy Plus, has been invaluable in laying the groundwork for the year ahead.听
The project team met last week with leaders from nearly two dozen units across campus to begin deep-dive conversations about the visions for their individual programs. This work will continue over the coming weeks, and feed into the scenario planning to come. Each of these campus units has a team of 鈥渧isionaries鈥 representing them in this process.
There will be multiple channels for you to get updates and get involved as Strategic Facilities Visioning unfolds. Our visionaries representing Infrastructure and Sustainability in the efforts include myself; Environmental Health and Safety Director Brandon Boger; AVC for Planning Design and Construction Chris Ewing, AVC for Facilities Operations and Services Brian Lindoerfer; Real Estate Services Executive Director Derek Silva; and Chief Sustainability Officer Heidi VanGenderen. I encourage you to reach out to them, as well as Bill and Ida Mae, if you have questions, thoughts or ideas about Strategic Facilities Visioning. Updates and information will also be posted on the Strategic Facilities Visioning website. And campus town halls will be held in the coming months.
This is an exciting effort that we envision reaping rewards for us and our campus, and your input and thoughts for our collective future will help shape who we are and how we support this great university.
Sincerely,
David Kang, vice chancellor for infrastructure and sustainability
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