When I got into the business, my background was management information systems. The first two years, I had to learn everything on my own. Many people are thrown into that situation. You don't take a course in space management, which is a combination of planning, operations, and so on. He adds that space planning and management cuts across the principle planning issues that an institution faces as it changes or grows.
Planning has to address people, program, space, and dollar issues.
It's where the rubber hits the road. The workshop strives to provide a holistic approach to space planning, says workshop faculty member William R. Tibbs Jr., architect and founder of Tibbs Associates. In planning the workshop, we decided to look at four areas space inventory, space utilization, space standards and guidelines, and space management. We thought that people in institutions had a tendency to know one or two of those areas very well, but not all four. It is these components that make up the space management plan, which workshop faculty member Clinton N. Hewitt stresses as a strong tool for the space planner.