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 Planning for Success - Changing Needs
 
 

Mount Allison attracts some of the top students and faculty in Canada. Our facilities must meet their expectations now and into the future.

Mount Allison is one of the oldest and most respected educational institutions in Canada. So it is no surprise that many of our buildings are over 40 years old, with original plumbing and heating systems, and other features. As the buildings age, and systems wear out, the University is faced with millions in deferred maintenance, despite investing $50-million in its facilities over the past decade.

 Avard Dixon building.


The Facilities Master Plan is taking a proactive and long-term approach to addressing these needs. The plan will upgrade our campus as well as ensure a safe, comfortable, accessible and attractive environment for our students, faculty and staff. This will provide the best possible teaching, research and supporting services environment for the university's academic, recreational and social programs.

 High priority factors in formulating the Facilities Master Plan
 
History: Mount Allison prides itself on preserving its traditions as a residential campus. In developing the Plan we have undertaken to maintain the traditional look and feel of our campus.

Adherence to the University Environmental Policy: The standards outlined in the University Environmental Policy provide guidance towards a more sustainable campus. The Facilities Master Plan must reflect those standards with regards to issues such as energy efficiency, re-use and recycling of building materials (renovation vs replacement) and building orientation, to name a few.


Accessibility: Every effort must be made in to meet the needs of physically disabled individuals in developing the campus and its facilities.


Adherence to Accepted Planning Principles: The Plan should adhere to the greatest extent possible with professionally accepted institutional urban planning principles. This would apply to issues such as zoning, circulation, parking, etc.


Optimal Satisfaction of Space Requirements (Quantitative and Qualitative): The plan must satisfy all foreseeable space requirements in terms of both amount and type of space without creating wasteful facilities that are either underutilized or overspecialized.


Affordability:  The cost of the plan must be realistically affordable for the University, both in terms of initial capital cost and subsequent operating cost.


Respect for Priorities: The implementation schedule should be able to be arranged so that the most urgent problems are dealt with first.


Practicality: The implementation of the Plan must be physically achievable with minimum disruption to campus operations and without requiring excessive moves of personnel to interim or temporary accommodations.
 
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