Our Estates Strategy sets out five strategic aims for development of the University estate:
1. Support an improved student experience
- Facilitate challenging, rewarding, fulfilling experiences which produce independent, enquiring graduates
- Continuously improve our estate and services to reflect and support diverse and changing student lifestyles and preferences
- Catalyse increases in postgraduate and international students
2. Support an improved staff experience
- Facilitate the attraction, retention, development and productivity of the best staff
- In particular, facilitate teaching and research of the highest quality
- Support a positive staff experience through the provision of appropriate staff social and relaxation areas
3. Create coherent, welcoming and navigable campuses
- Make Lincoln a university of first choice for the best students by creating an attractive and distinctive first impression through architecture and landscaping
- Continue to develop a compact, high-quality estate in which all sites and buildings are accessible, welcoming, navigable, clean, comfortable, safe and well equipped
- Maximise the connectivity of our campuses, physically and virtually, locally and globally, through tight integration of transport and ICT strategies
- Ensure all campuses have an appropriate ‘sense of place’ through distinctive architectural spaces both within and between buildings
4. Deliver improved environmental performance and sustainability
- Lead institution-wide efforts to minimise the University’s environmental impact by reducing its carbon footprint, its use of non-renewable resources and maximising the sustainability of all University buildings and activities
5. Help deliver financial sustainability
- Contribute to the University’s financial health through ensuring the efficient, effective use of space and resources, optimising capital and operating expenditure, and developing a portfolio of commercial services which breaks even or makes a net contribution.