Upgrades, dilapidation, functional renovation—it’s not easy juggling all these projects while planning for the demographic needs of the next ten years.
Quebec’s school boards and service centres are facing many major challenges :
- Dilapidated buildings
- Non-functional spaces
- Many improvement requests that have not been discussed or prioritized
- A backlog of building maintenance and upgrades
- Significant population growth in some areas and decline in others
- Facilities with insufficient capacity and redundant facilities
- Changing services
- Difficulty carrying out multiple projects at once and drawing the interest of construction companies
A real estate master plan (REMP) will allow you to conduct a comprehensive strategic review to ensure better analysis and decision-making
KEYS TO A SUCCESFUL STRATEGIC INITIATIVE
1. Current situation
It’s important to assess your current situation so as to identify the characteristics of your clientele and real estate assets. This first big step will highlight the main issues you need to address in your action plan.
2. Guidelines
Having clear guidelines for decision-making will help your team stay on track throughout the process and well beyond the real estate master plan, i.e., during its implementation.
3. Requirements and priorities
Your future real estate developments must ensure that projected population needs are met, one priority at a time.
4. Optimal scenario
Establishing a comprehensive plan allows you to identify the most suitable course of action for your real estate projects in the short, medium and long term, taking into account service improvement priorities and feasibility.
STOP PUTTING OUT FIRES, FOCUS ON LOGICAL INVESTMENTS
To ensure that our children have access to quality learning facilities that can offer them a bright future, your organization must adopt a strategic framework that allows for carefully planned investment in real estate. Having such an action plan will be key when submitting requests to the government.
CIM Conseil’s team of professionals can carry out your projects with the utmost care and help you develop a real estate master plan in line with your school board’s priorities.
