Facility Planning Guidelines for Facility Renewal and Adaption

AM Foundational Thinking Miniseries - Reloaded

This continues the Foundational Thinking miniseries with an overview of Financial Planning Guidelines for Facility Renewal and Adaptation published as a joint project between the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), the Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges (APPA), and Coopers and Lybrand in 1989.

The purpose of Facility Planning Guidelines was; “to provide executive managers and trustees with guidelines for long-term financial planning for plant renewal and adaptation.”  The objective of this guidance was to assist; “strategic decision makers in gaining a better understanding of the financial planning requirements necessary to protect the value of their institution’s plant assets in relation to evolving institutional missions by giving them a clearer way to think about those assets.”

From a college and university perspective, Facility Planning Guidelines ech…