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Kyle Witiw
Strategic Infrastructure Planner | University of Alberta

Exciting opportunity to help the University of Alberta shape the future of our campus spaces!

We are seeking an experienced consultant team to assist in preparing a series of master plans to help advance the priorities in Built for Purpose and guide space optimization decisions with the goal of growing enrolment to 60,000 students by 2033 while holding our existing space footprints.

Master Plans as outlined in this RFP will:
-Help the University plan for growth as outlined in Shape: The University Strategic Plan 2023-2033 and further articulated in the Integrated Enrollment Growth Plan
-Implement space optimization initiatives, in alignment with the principles and goals of the Integrated Asset Management Strategy and the priorities in Built for Purpose
-Be a key campus planning tool, translating 'What We Build' to 'How We Build It,' that allows the University to anticipate its future space requirements, complete high-level domino space planning across all campus buildings, and identify locations of key campus community nodes
- Provide crucial long-term planning information and recommendations to inform future capital planning and general and functional space programs

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Submission Deadline: August 22, 2025 at 2 PM MT
 
constance_chlore said:
Yeah, unfortunately our administration has been known to talk out of both sides of its mouth before. It also hasn't been the best steward of its own (or the neighborhood's) history, as shown by the ring houses debacle among other events. (Still hoping Ken can work his magic there somehow...) So I would like to think that these changes will all turn out for the best, but we won't know for a while.

Of course, this is all occurring along a background of unprecedented budget cuts from our provincial government. I can't blame our administration entirely, but I do wish they'd be straight with us.
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I want to like Bill Flanagan as the U of A President, I really do.
Unfortunately he appears to be a huge fan of demolishing buildings regardless of historical designation.
 
U of A lost the plot on properly budgeting for O&M on their structures long before the massive UCP post secondary cuts (see: nearly $1 bil in deferred maintenance noted back in 2017). Even back then it seems the primary remedy proposed was the disposition of numerous buildings they let rot at the end of their useful life. The UCP cuts were almost a convenient excuse for them to say "welp, our hands are tied".

Surprising to read that the only buildings on north campus evaluated to be in 'poor' facility condition are CAB, Admin, some garage-like structure on 116th, and the river bank cooling plant. Particularly the fact that neither Humanities nor FAB met that criteria.
 
I had originally thought that Ken had a plan to rebuild the ring houses ceteris paribus but on a different site in the Quarters part of downtown. I was disappointed to find out that he was only intending to use the brick building material of the ring houses in an entirely new construct. I don't know if he has the material stored away someplace. All that aside, as earlier pointed out by 'O, the ring houses in their original location could have been repurposed as guest quarters for visiting faculty, dignitaries, etc. and maintained as a character piece for the university -- sometimes when you are standing in front of the forest trees get in the way of a more scope-inclusive view.
 
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💡💡Did You Know💡💡

The 1981-1991 Long Range Development Plan for the University of Alberta contained a concept for a new Faculty Club located north of the Earth Sciences Building. The concept showed a building extending over Saskatchewan Drive with a viewing platform overlooking the North Saskatchewan River Valley. 🤯

(The image is oriented with north on the bottom. Biological Sciences is on the right side of the image.)
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