The UNC Space Planning Standards and related work papers were developed as part of the Capital Equity and Adequacy Study conducted in 1998-99. These standards and projections were used in the identification of new space needs subsequently supported by the 2000 Higher Education Bond Program and the standards continue to be the foundation for ongoing space planning.

This report (April 1999) is the Capital Equity and Adequacy Study and preliminary 10-year capital needs plan for UNC. This report was the basis for the 1999 and 2000 legislative requests for the UNC Bond Program.

The efficient use of campus facilities is of increasing concern to most colleges and universities. This concern is partially a reflection of the high costs involved in constructing and maintaining buildings, but it also stems from a broader recognition of the importance of facilities planning. The effective allocation and utilization of space is essential if an institution of higher education is to maximize its resources in accomplishing its objectives in the areas of instruction, research, and public service. The Higher Education Facilities Commission under the authority of the University of North Carolina-General Administration has developed a computer assisted facilities inventory system to give North Carolina institutions of higher education the ability to respond quickly to financial officers, facility planners, and offices of institutional research/effectiveness. This system is essentially the physical inventory of the campus which has been made interactive and capable of electronic update via the web. Once submitted, programs designed to identify coding and data entry errors will be run on the file. Files determined to be free of errors will be posted immediately and made available to the institution for use. A new cycle for that institution can then be opened and unlike previous years, data may be updated throughout the entire calendar year and submitted on the census date. This new system has been nicknamed DAVE (Data Additions Validations, Edits). It is the commission???s goal to use DAVE along with other computer assisted facilities management tools such as CAD to provide a ???real-time??? accounting of space at N.C. institutions of higher education. The instructions in this manual are user friendly, and include many drop down menus that will allow the user to view room and program coding options also available in the Facilities Inventory and Utilization Manual. If you have any questions about DAVE, or experience any difficulty logging onto the system, please contact Jeff Hill at 962-4569 or at jdh@northcarolina.edu.

The UNC Space Planning Standards and related work papers were developed as part of the Capital Equity and Adequacy Study conducted in 1998-99. These standards and projections were used in the identification of new space needs subsequently supported by the 2000 Higher Education Bond Program and the standards continue to be the foundation for ongoing space planning.