The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) was completing 10 years of modernization work and was looking for a master facilities plan to assist in the next 10 years of development.  Our team walked every campus, reviewed past work and interviewed M&O staff to identify facilities conditions, utilization, educational capacity and enrollment. 

 BUSD is unique in the number of organizations that it has in house or partners with.  Our engagement process for identifying District goals included meeting with:

• Maintenance and Operations

• Cooking and Gardening

• Libraries

• BEARS / LEARNS

• BFT / UBA / Local 21

• Visual and Performing Arts

• Career Technical Education

• Student Services

• Office of Family Engagement and Equity

After our assessment and identification of District goals, we worked with the Superintendent’s workgroup (a collaborative team comprised of District representation from all departments).  In meeting with this workgroup, each school site and through community workshops, we developed a comprehensive Master Facilities Plan that was instrumental in the success of the Facilities Bond.  The Plan provided a roadmap for the future program and resulted in comprehensive improvements to nearly all District schools.ext goes here

• Facilities Assessment

• Community Engagement

• District Standards

• Master Facilities Plan

• Master Budgeting

• Project Planning

• Marcus Hibser (with Hibser Yamauchi Architects)

• Bureau Veritas (formerly EMG)

• Silva Cost Consulting