Planning

The Planning Division works collaboratively with the University community—administration, deans and faculty and students—to guide the ongoing evolution of the physical campus environment, collect and maintain facility information, accommodate growth needs, and improve existing facilities. Our goal is to carry out this work in a manner that is environmentally sustainable and sensitive to our immediate neighbors and the wider Lowell community.

Key activities include:

Campus Planning: Provides a university-wide, long-term planning context for decisions about campus growth and evolution

Space Planning: Focuses on identifying space needs, conducting feasibility studies, and providing programming and design oversight to support appropriately-sized and up-to-date facilities

Transportation Planning: Looks at travel to and between campuses with the goals of improving mobility, safety and service and increasing sustainability

Energy Resources and Sustainability: Incorporates sustainability and energy efficiency into long-term planning, operations and management of campus facilities

Real Estate Services: Evaluation of real estate opportunities to support growth needs of the University and local and regional economic development goals