Completion Date: 2010
Square Footage: 3,000,000

The university-wide master plan for Florida International University focuses on the 344-acre main Modesto Maidique Campus, the Engineering Center and the 40-acre Biscayne Bay Campus. Guided by the FIU's mission and strategic planning guidelines, we analyzed a broad range of inter-related campus elements that impact how facilities support pedagogy and how planning strategies leverage capital expenditures.

The update addresses issues key to the successful development and integration of the Academic Health Sciences Center on the Maidique Campus. The complex incorporates a number of facilities serving the research and clinical laboratory, healthcare and academic programs. We also studied options for consolidation of several campus-wide sustainability initiatives. This yielded potential opportunities for energy savings including co-generation power plants, thermal energy storage, mixed-model mass transportation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a combination of building and open space orientation patterns to promote shading, natural ventilation and stormwater management.

Urban design, land use, academic facilities, support facilities, housing, recreation and open spaces, general infrastructure, transportation, utilities, conservation, capital improvements, architectural and landscape design guidelines, facilities maintenance and coastal management are elements addressed in the master plan as well.