Blog: Higher Education

It might be hard to imagine the first thing you’ll do when you go back to normal work after the COVID-19 pandemic. But that time will come, and you’ll want to hit the ground running. Whenever it’s safe for your facility to reopen, here are three things you should put at the top of your list.

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all of our lives. But, eventually, it will come to an end. It’s important that, as we make decisions during a crisis, we remain aware of the future. One that, by all accounts, will be very different than what we assumed it would be a few months ago.

Given the unpredictability of the American economy, finance officers with large facilities portfolios are learning to value flexibility. But that flexibility doesn’t exist without concerted efforts by planning teams to build it into their long-term capital planning processes.

We’ve been perfecting the Job Order Contracting process for over 30 years, but JOC is only one of many project delivery methods for procuring construction services. Knowing the differences between each method and when to use them can determine a projects’ success.

There’s a perception that the purpose of capital planning is to deploy financial investments into large projects with the expectation that they will yield a return. This perception has its merits, but it’s incomplete. Discover how a capital plan can improve operations, too.