2017-LL-156 - SFU 2017-LL-156 RFP Burnaby Campus Master Plan Consulting Services

Simon Fraser University (“SFU”) invites prospective proponents to submit proposals for the provision of consulting services for a comprehensive master plan for SFU Burnaby campus.
 
About SFU
Simon Fraser University is located on Canada’s west coast in British Columbia.  It opened September 9, 1965 with 2,500 students.  Now boasting three distinctive campuses, 30,000 students, 6,500 faculty and staff, and 120,000 alumni, SFU has matured into one of the world’s leading teaching and research universities. Consistently ranked among Canada’s top comprehensive universities and named to the Times Higher Education list of 100 world universities under 50, SFU is also the first Canadian member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the world’s largest college sports association. 
 
Background of the Project
The original plan and design of the iconic SFU Campus on Burnaby Mountain was developed by Architects Aurthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey in 1963. This original plan provided the preliminary planning principles to guide development on the campus through to the 1980's.
In 1990, Arthur Erickson Architects was engaged again to review and extend the original plan – and in 2010, Endall Elliot and Associates was retained to summarize the fundamental planning principles established in the original plan and apply these to several remaining development sites within the boundaries of the central SFU Burnaby Campus. 
The 2010 Burnaby Mountain Campus Development Plan, http://www.sfu.ca/fs/Campus-Planning/Campus-Development-Plan.html remains the primary guiding document for land and architectural development on campus. However, there are a number of potential development sites and key planning components missing from this plan that are vital to future development on campus - and to establishing a campus that supports SFU’s vision as the leading engaged university.
 
Project Overview
The SFU Burnaby Campus Master Plan (“the Plan”/”SFU Burnaby 2065”) will reinvigorate the physical attributes and campus amenities offering the magnetic pull of place-making to attract and retain outstanding students, faculty and staff.  The Plan will strengthen the university brand by providing a framework for the physical development of the campus lands and buildings and enhancing its distinctive character.  As a physical manifestation of the university’s strategic priorities, the Plan will support SFU’s goals of creating a sustainable, world class academic and community experience.  It will also provide a vision of how the physical campus should evolve over the next 50 years or more.
The Plan will look beyond incremental growth and take a major leap ahead; considering broad patterns of development, such as building forms and connections, active transportation networks and open space and natural systems and opportunities. This plan will celebrate the interface between people, landscapes, and structures and how the physical environment influences the way we learn, live, work, and engage.   A comprehensive master plan for SFU’S Burnaby campus will provide a flexible physical planning and decision-making structure to accommodate the development of the University’s future. Among the issues to be analyzed are opportunities for growth at the heart of campus, locations for growth generally and land use opportunities beyond the academic core.
The Plan will seek to improve the quality of campus spaces, to enhance opportunities for experiences, and organize and unify the campus.  It will therefore identify and promote characteristics, amenities and opportunities to make this campus magnetic and remarkable for the next 50 years.  The plan will:

• identify, create and reinvigorate the physical attributes and campus amenities.
• use the magnetic principles of place-making to attract and retain outstanding students, faculty and staff.
• help us to understand the physical characteristics, forms, structures, and functions to make our lands and buildings (our estate) a great university campus.
• identify and enhance landscaped open spaces, both natural and designed, that distinguish the unique character of the campus environment.
• determine how to best use and develop the lands and facilities on Burnaby Mountain, to achieve the university’s strategic goals.
• meet the needs of the future demographics (dramatic changes means different needs and expectations)