The Rice Building Institute has assembled a broadly interdisciplinary group of industry and academic leaders to execute the following projects:
Global Real Estate and Facility Strategies
Organizations with large real estate and facility and portfolios find that their operations are changing faster than their buildings can respond.
Alternative Project Delivery Systems
The project delivery processes used today are dominated by a collection of specialists and experts whose efforts are unevenly orchestrated. This complexity has left us with systems that take too long to execute and often fail to respond to the owner’s needs.
Real Estate & Facility Departmental Effectiveness
The fact that so many facility portfolios have become a barrier to change has placed a new focus on their alignment with business strategies. The real estate and facility manager’s traditional role must evolve.
Building Funding Alternatives / Higher Education / Texas
Public universities in Texas desperately need more buildings while traditional funding sources are diminishing.
Post Occupancy Assessment / Healthcare Facilities
It’s hard to manage and improve that which you do not measure. We will develop the definitive methodology for evaluating building performance.