Planning, Sustainability and Project Management

Campus Architecture & Learning Environments

Campus Architecture
The Campus Architecture unit within the Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project Management serves as the steward of the physical campus at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  This responsibility encompasses the design of facilities, grounds and signage, and coordination of exterior art, historic preservation, and campus master planning efforts by ensuring that renovations and new developments adhere to the campus master plan, design standards and enhance the physical environment.

Campus Learning Environments
The Campus Learning Environments unit within the Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project Management creates and renovates learning spaces to enable active learning and enhance student success. The goal of each learning space project is to foster student engagement and thereby improve student learning outcomes. Projects are both research-driven and user-focused to support the University’s strategic priorities.

Campus & Space Planning

The Campus & Space Planning unit within the Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project Management helps to ensure the development of the Campus Master Plan, coordinate facility and space planning activities and consults with campus leadership groups on other planning initiatives.  Campus & Space Planning ensures that long-range plans for UIC and individual colleges are properly aligned. This is accomplished by analyzing and interpreting the physical impacts of proposed strategic plans.   Services provided by Campus & Space Planning include campus master plan development, facility & property analyses, space utilization analyses, metrics development, space programming for the renovation of existing space and new space, coordination of campus space committees, and processing and managing requests for space.

Transportation Planning

The Transportation Planning unit within the Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project
Management works to identify the university’s transportation and mobility
infrastructure priorities and conduct long-term planning efforts aimed at meeting those
needs. Through the unit’s planning efforts, an implementation strategy for
transportation-related projects and initiatives are recommended, which align with other
campus plans (i.e. Campus Master Plan and Landscape Master Plan) in addition to any
broader transportation and mobility goals from the city and state. The sustainability
goals set forth by the Climate Action Implementation Plan are an important lens to UIC’s
transportation planning. As a result, the transportation planning unit’s
recommendations promote best practices to reduce UIC’s carbon footprint.

Capital Planning

The Capital Planning unit within the Office of Planning, Sustainability and Project Management works to prioritize and plan for the maintenance of campus buildings while also liaising with academic units to facilitate the improvement of academic and student-facing spaces. Capital Planning develops an annual, short and long term plans that outlines the university’s priorities for capital renewal and new construction, as well as takes into account any plans to decommission buildings. The capital plan aims to meet the needs of individual colleges while also addressing the campus fabric in its entirety. It considers opportunities for funding and makes recommendations about how to allocate resources to best address the needs of university community as a whole.

Master Plan

Campus Master Plan
UIC’s Campus Master Plan is a guiding framework for the physical development of the built campus environment.  The UIC Campus Master Plan provides recommendations for both near-term and long-term improvements that support and reinforce the Strategic Priorities of the University.