The University was conscious of a rapidly-approaching crisis: it was two months before the teaching year started, and they had just realised that it was impossible to schedule all planned lectures into available theatres in Semester 2. What could be done? What were the options the University could reasonably consider?...
A large university with a number of dispersed campuses was experiencing a period of rapid and sustained growth in student enrolments, combined with a major re-structuring of teaching delivery methods. The university needed a detailed analysis of past and present use of teaching space, combined with a projection of teaching...
At different large universities, staff were briefed to implement regular teaching room audits, but required assistance to set up the audit structures and processes. Yearly audits were needed in order to gauge the effectiveness of timetable software in improving the use of rooms, and to highlight pressure points for future...
Mosaic-Space undertook several projects at different stages of the planning process. Our role included reviewing existing plans, validating the accuracy of planning data and development of a number of timetable-based teaching space models. A key focus was ensuring, with the best possible accuracy, that there would not be an over-supply...
The University's plan was to consolidate its business-teaching facilities in the Abercrombie Precinct. Previously these were spread over nine buildings on the Camperdown / Darlington campus. In parallel, consideration needed to be give to changes in pedagogy, and the new types of space that would support such moves, while also...
An institution with a common profile of teaching and research activity was having problems with capturing and analysing space usage data. Informal reports indicated that some room types were frequently booked, but data in the timetabling system did not back up these views. There was a view in some faculties...
Conducted in collaboration with our business partner New Learning Environments: Rubida Research as part of a wider accommodation review for a large city university, Mosaic-Space examined the current usage of collaborative and innovative learning spaces and made recommendations for the implementation of state-of-the-art learning spaces. A major part of the...
The company recently assisted a medium-sized university to plan for the deployment of automated timetable software. The brief included the creation of a cost-benefit analysis that examined the data interfaces that the university was already using, and the methods by which the new timetabling software could be integrated with existing...