Mission Statement -

The mission of the Facilities Planning & Construction Department is to provide the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with efficient, customer-oriented, professional planning services, and support of the short- and long-range development of the campus physical and spatial environment.

Responsibilities -

1. General

The office of Facilities Planning encompasses activities traditionally administered by urban planners, architects, landscape architects, engineers, interior designers, and other environmental design disciplines. A facilities planning department is established to analyze and manage the tangible fixed assets to best support the organization’s overall objectives. For a university campus, Facilities Planning determines how buildings, grounds, utilities and equipment support the basic missions of teaching, research and public service.

2. Basic Duties

• Advising the decision-makers on how to keep all parts of the physical planning process moving forward in a positive manner.
• Planning all physical changes to campus.
• Consulting on technical requirements for planning, acquisition of advanced technologies and defining user needs, and presenting this information in the form of a Facilities Planning program.
• Coordinating construction and space use with User functional requirements.
• Supervision of architects and contractors.
• Accountability in meeting functional needs, timely delivery of facilities and matching expenditures with budget.

3. Services

Strategic Facilities Planning:

a. Physical Development Policy
b. Facilities Improvement Program
c. Capital Budgeting and Programming

d. Campus Master Planning

Management of Design and Construction:

a. Project Planning and Programming
b. Project Design
c. Bidding
d. Cost Estimate and Analysis

Space Planning:

a. Utilization

b. Allocation

c. Construction

Interior Design:

a. Color Selection
b. Furniture Selection
c. Equipment Selection

Capital Budget Programming