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Plenary 4: People first approach to digital. Has the reason for the creation of digital estates been lost? How can digital practices drive better collaboration, create ownership and deliver valued outcomes?

Synopsis: Effective persona mapping driving impactful digital outcomes. We believe that maintaining a core focus on the people involved with the specification of assets and services, the delivery and operation of assets and their interaction with a facility is key to delivering facilities and services that work. Articulating what ‘works’ means is key. Providing accurate asset data to support the initiation and ongoing management of FM, the planning and delivery of ‘net zero’ outcomes, maximising the user experience and service outcomes is critical in delivering optimised, people centric estates and services. In this presentation we will be joined by Clive Anderson the Director of Capital Projects of the Government Property Agency. Clive is leading the new approach to managing government property and creating a hub office estate. Together with Helen Groves and Terry Stocks of Atkins and Faithful+Gould we will explore how deploying digital through a people centric approach will drive better outcomes.

Session kindly supported by Atkins and Faithful+Gould

Refreshments, Networking and Exhibition

Synopsis: Hear from our winning summer school group as they discuss in detail the findings of their project work ‘on the sectors learning from COVID-19 and how this will shape future refurbishments, new developments and/or operational estates and facilities services for the workplace, learning, teaching and research spaces.

Summer School Winners 2021/2022 Cohort 

Brett Plant, Systems and Digital Information Manager, University of Warwick

Nicola Duffy, Head of Business Services Support, Lancaster University

Wayne Jones, Head of Estates Management, Bangor University

Synopsis: A South African outlook covering:
1. The funding system to support infrastructure development and students funding: it is common knowledge that the South African education system spends billions in students funding (especially students coming poor backgrounds).
2. A brief focus would be done on HEFMA, an association which has links with AUDE, APPA and TEFMA. The presentation will show how the association handled its affairs during the pandemic.
3. The last part of the presentation is focussed on the University of Johannesburg in the context of the pandemic; and its agility to succeed during the pandemic and be able to complete the two successive years with ease. This part shows how the institution responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and continued to learn for the future.

An Australian outlook covering:
1. A short introduction to the University of Canberra (UC), including our history and place of education in Australia’s Capital Territory;
2. COVID-19 related impacts to Australian operations and the current education environment; and
3. UC’s ambitious 20 year master plan – a peek into our future

Session B1: Embedding a strategic approach to managing HE estates and the future of space utilisation and the role of space management in the climate emergency debate

Synopsis: HE estates issues: Guidance for leveraging more and better

A joint panel discussion, chaired by AUDE’s Space Management Group, with EDU and Gardiner & Theobald (G&T) both sharing insights from their complementary work in progress as AUDE delivery partners.

AUDE members share key drivers and ambitions - optimising existing infrastructure, planning space usage strategically, improving space utilisation, acting on the climate emergency, and leveraging a flexible approach to space, and AUDE has commissioned Education Design Unit (EDU) to produce a strategic guide that addresses these, and G&T to research the strategic approach to estate planning taken by a range of different Higher Education institutions.

EDU approaches these as interlinked challenges. As a consortium of widely experienced specialist firms, we use our respective expertise to inform and deliver better HE spaces and better use of resources. We see success in meeting HE estates challenges as pivoting on campus quality and connected thinking, and we see our role in giving estates teams instructive propositions and examples to enlist buy-in from members’ organisations.

G&T is interviewing estates directors and managers of space from a range of HE Institutions to identify their approaches to strategic estate planning, aiming to understand links between governance, strategic planning, engagement with the market, partners and local authorities, and other influences on strategic planning, and seeking to link estate management to types of institution. G&T expects this research to provide a useful resource for university estates planners to check their approaches against the practice of other institutions. 

EDU and G&T have already heard from many AUDE members, and this panel session will give further scope to test our work in progress with you. We recognise that every HE institution and all estates are distinct, and EDU and G&T can support members with their specific issues when AUDE disseminate their completed work, or as part of the preparation of this work.

Session B2: Navigating the Next Chapter Dealing in Greys

Session B3: The Power of Difference

Synopsis: We tend to recruit people like us (‘PLU’ as my mother used to call it), we promote PLU, we value PLU… The results of this is to cut off swathes of talent. AUDE members are deeply involved in the relationship between space and learning & research, student satisfaction, staff development, the effect of campuses and buildings on those who live and work in them. The key to understanding the breadth of those needs and uses, the need to discover imaginative and innovative solutions to construction, reaching carbon net zero and all the challenges we face in the sector is to build teams where difference is valued and combined. SIMON FANSHAWE (your recidivist Conference host) will lead a discussion on how to create this diversity and space within those teams that is safe for disagreement not from it.

Refreshments, Networking and Exhibition

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It seems that in the last 20 years the world has become a less certain place with the financial crisis and Covid making decision making increasingly difficult. Caspar Berry went to Cambridge to study economics before travelling to Las Vegas to put what he had learned about resource allocation into practise in a world where the uncertainty was overt and deniable. He joins us to share what he learned and what he has subsequently shared in over 200 speeches to more than 500 companies including Google, Visa, IBM, Microsoft, McDonalds, HSBC, Redbull and Shell.