Special Projects: Student Affairs

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Special Projects serves all departments, offices, and staff in Student Affairs. We can help areas and staff coordinate work with Facilities Management, contractors, movers, and vendors.

Other services include space planning, organization, optimizing offices with a simple rearranging of furniture, and office and common space upgrades with all new furniture, or just some new lamps.

Don’t see the project you want help with listed? Just email me, I bet I can help.

Anne VanOsdol
a-vanosdol@northwestern.edu
847-467-2215

Space Planning

look at an overall office, office suite, or department
work with staff
- how that staff member interacts with the people that come in the office
  - transactional
  - across a desk
therapeutic/conversational
- comfy chairs
common spaces
- at a shared table
reorganization
- creating more efficient space within and office or a suite

Project Management

furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E)
- assess need of end users
- create budget
- specify fabrics and finishes
  - use of special projects extensive fabric and finish library
manage on a daily basis
- coordinate with Facilities Management and/or Contractor
assess for project milestones
check that all work is done to specification
receive all furniture/product
- set to design specification
create punch list and follow up until complete

Facility Requests

all facility requests should be routed through Special Projects

budgeting
building charge vs department charge
assessing larger building issues
bundling repairs
enter estimate repairs
coordinate costs and approvals
enter work order
coordinate all work
finish any punch list items before ticket is closed

New Staff Offices or Office Moves

create offices that blend well with the rest of the department or unit
adapt existing offices to meet individual needs
coordinate move
- arrange for movers
- packing
- move
- unpacking
- final layout of new office
- new keys and Access