University & College Athletic Facilities

The modern athletic facility development process now involves a wide range of stakeholders. This has led to dramatic changes in the level of strategic thinking and stakeholder alignment that is now integral to these developments. Even minor adjustments to plans, timelines, space allocations, and floor plans can have tremendous impact and benefit for many years to come.

The Sports Facilities Advisory works directly with athletic directors and sports complex planning committees to facilitate alignment across campus stakeholders. This includes the integration of education, research, athletics, campus recreation, student athlete, resident life, alumni/donor, and local community interests. When properly aligned these various stakeholder groups can contribute to:

• World class innovations
• Optimal development processes
• The reduction of massive, unnecessary expense and time

   
The Sports Facilities Advisory’s athletic center strategic planning, feasibility studies, design consultation, and management training programs are ideally suited to accompany your
on-campus and architecture team. In some cases, SFA is hired solely to assess the feasibility of a given plan or to review concepts. In other instances, we are engaged to add an expert perspective during the design process (working hand-in-hand with your architect), and other clients choose to have the Sports Facilities Advisory all the way through facility opening where we offer management training, customer service training, and facility operations audits and consultation.   

SFA’s offerings for university Athletic Facilities Include:

• Campus athletic, university recreation center, and sports facility feasibility studies
• Master Plan consulting
• Future facilities operating cost projections
• Strategic planning
• Current inventory assessment, aging facilities review, and optimization recommendations
• Operations and management review and auditing
• Construction management to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of new facilities
• Purchasing and bid proposal consultation and negotiations to significantly reduce new construction costs  
• Review of architectural plans to provide unbiased evaluation   
• And much more.

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