Sightlines Strategic Capital Planning reinvents capital planning by providing flexible investment strategies tailored for your campus, both now and into the future. It begins with a deep understanding of your institutional mission and vision, engaging with experts, leaders, and decision-makers to center the plan around your mission. This approach ensures financially responsible capital planning, focusing on mission-critical needs to deliver quicker and more impactful results. The framework involves establishing a baseline assessment to focus effort on the most important campus issues, setting priorities and developing campus portfolios for focused investment, building strategic scenarios that represent possible funding models to accommodate various possibilities, and creating tactical plans for specific facilities through focused assessments adhering to ASTM standards and using higher ed-specific RSMeans data. Sightlines Strategic Capital Planning on Gordian Cloud provides immersive access to your capital plan, integrating you into your institutional priorities and empowering investment decision-making.

Features:

• Establish a Baseline Assessment: Start with a simple and accurate baseline to focus effort on the most important campus issues for an effective short- and long-term plan.
• Set Priorities and Develop Campus Portfolios: Develop a portfolio approach for focused investment based on the institutional strategic direction, simplifying communication and increasing autonomy for project selection.
• Build Strategic Scenarios That Represent Possible Funding Models: Create different funding scenarios to stress-test the plan and allow institutional leaders to determine the optimal path forward.
• Create Tactical Plans for Specific Facilities: Perform focused assessments on the most critical buildings, adhering to ASTM standards and including higher ed-specific RSMeans data.