About the Directorate of Estates & Facilities
About Estates Planning and Developemnt
King’s Directorate of Estates & Facilities is a key enabler of the university’s Strategic Vision 2029 and we have created a strategy which demonstrates our intent and sets out how the Estates & Facilities team will support the ambition of the university’s strategic vision. Our philosophy has been developed using the Guiding Principles outlined in Vision 2029; we have worked with the teams across the other support
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Page heading to go here Estates Planning and Development is an in-house team of construction project professionals, focused on the delivery of the University’s goals, strategies and aspirations, through the planning and delivery of its estates asset requirements. The project portfolio is hugely varied in type and scale, generally ranging
from £500k to tens of millions; encapsulating small refurbishments, developing new or refurbishing whole buildings. We deliver a multitude of facilities in support of our goals, whether they be educational and collaboration space, office, residential, life sciences, healthcare, or scientific and engineering research. We co-develop facilities with external partners and with support from UK and European research funds, philanthropy, commercial co-investment, as well as with our own capital. We work with the broader directorate to ensure our projects support the university’s goals for long-term sustainability and inclusion, for the benefit of staff and students, for the wider community, both locally and internationally. We are currently embarking on master-planning across our campus sites which will support the future development strategy of the university and generate a programme of estate renewal through capital delivery.
functions, with our academic and research colleagues and our students so that we can ensure that the communities we serve are at the very heart of the directorate’s work. We know that everyone in King’s interacts with our physical assets and relies upon our service delivery therefore they need to: • be seamless • to work • be sustainable and safe • be enabling • support work and learning and; • enable growth As King’s continues to mature and grow the task of developing, maintaining, managing and driving value from our physical infrastructure will become more complex. The Estates & Facilities strategy holds together our vision and ensures we can measurably improve the learning and working experience of our student, staff and partners. Meeting our aims will not be without its challenges. Operating in central London means that King’s has some unique challenges ahead with an ambition to grow student numbers and the level of research we undertake. This means we will need to make wise choices about where we focus our effort and resources. We will need to be clear about how we prioritise activity to ensure our decisions can support the overall purpose of King’s. We have a finite amount of space and resource and it is our job to help King’s manage our assets well. King’s has five campuses in central London consisting of more than 100 buildings ranging in age from the 1780s to the current day. Many are listed and of great architectural significance. The campuses house a diversity of spaces, including teaching and learning environments, cutting edge research facilities, two chapels, cafes and restaurants, gyms and student residences. The Estates & Facilities team employs more than 1000 people with a vast range of expertise and skills, operating and maintaining facilities and providing services to ensure King’s remains one of the world’s top universities. • Details of our Strategic Vision 2029 can be viewed here . • Details about our Estates & Facilities philosophy can be viewed here. • Background to estates and facilities including an introduction from our Director of Estates, Nick O’Donnell can be viewed here .
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