Knowledge Cafe

For more than 20 years, I’ve been involved with the Learning Spaces Collaboratory. Through this collection of people, including architects, academics and leaders, we’ve explored many topics with the aim of improving built environments in higher education.

In March, I participated in one of the LSC’s regional roundtable...

The University of North Carolina, Asheville held a groundbreaking for new student residences that will increase on-campus housing by 20 percent.

This will be UNC Asheville’s first apartment-style housing and is slated for completion in the summer of 2018. The housing, designed by Hanbury, is being constructed in an are...

I read a story once that included this quote. “Academics will fight over money and kill over space.”

Yes, space is a serious, expensive business on college campuses and students are often the ones who lose out.

We’ve seen again and again how campus space, overtime, gets absorbed by someone who needs it at the moment: n...

Jared Coffin, Hanbury Design Principal, has earned the WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP) credential through the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI). This achievement places Coffin among a group of leading professionals who are dedicated to supporting human health and well-being in the built environment.

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The growth of Public Private Partnerships on U.S. campuses is changing the economics of campus finance as well as relationships between universities and their facilities and communities.

Proper planning when undertaking one of these multi-decade deals is critical to increasing the likelihood that the P3 will be success...

Open any business publication and you’ll probably find an article about Big Data.

GE has sensors on jet engines and uses that data to inform maintenance issues. Facebook, Amazon and Expedia collect reams of data to better attract and serve customers. Higher education is also leveraging Big Data. IBM recently posted an...