Campus Planning

The Office of Campus Planning is responsible for capital construction and planning; space management and renovations; and capital and deferred maintenance budget oversight.

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The Office of Campus Planning is responsible for the development and oversight of the University鈥檚 Master Plan and subsequent capital construction projects. This includes facilitating the development of the design and specifications to ensure compliance with University standards, permitting and regulatory compliance, and construction monitoring.

Space Requests

All departmental requests for new space, renovations (i.e. physical changes including permanently attaching anything to any surface or requiring any hard connection to any utility), and changes of assignment including vacating a space or changing the use of any space (i.e. double to single office, office to storage, office to research) should be submitted to the Space Committee by filling out the online form found at .

Maintenance Requests

Normal maintenance requests (painting, shelving, furniture repairs, etc.) should be requested using the Facilities Management Services Get-It Work Order System located on the School Dude platform.

Capital and Deferred Maintenance Budget

The development and oversight of the University鈥檚 Capital and Deferred Maintenance Budget (CapDM) is coordinated through the Office of Campus Planning. Departments wishing to request capital funds for future fiscal years should submit their request during the annual CapDM submission period which occurs around October. Please email une-capdm-its-requests@une.edu with any questions about CapDM and ITS-related projects.

Capital Construction and Planning

Master Plans

Construction Projects

Portland Campus Overlay Zoning

The City of Portland has implemented an Institutional Overlay Zone ordinance that 鈥減rovides a regulatory mechanism available to the city鈥檚 four major medical and higher education campuses where an improved regulatory structure is needed to facilitate a consistent, predictable, and clear growth management process.鈥 This applies to the University of New England, University of Southern Maine, Maine Medical Center, and Mercy Hospital, and is similar in structure to the Institutional Zoning that is currently in place in Biddeford. Prior to any significant development on the Portland Campus, the University will need to apply for this zoning change.

The Portland Campus currently resides in five separate zones, and 鈥渦niversity鈥 uses are only allowed in one of these zones, and that zone is not contiguous to the core campus. This process will ultimately simplify the campus planning and regulatory permitting process in the future as the University grows.

色香视频 has submitted its application to the City and is looking forward to the Planning Board meetings beginning in November 2024. See the proposed master plan PDF to see the University鈥檚 planned future development on the Portland campus.

The Harold and Bibby Alfond Center for Health Sciences Building Project

New Construction, Portland Campus

The University is currently proceeding with design and planning for the construction of a new 112,000 square foot facility to relocate its College of Osteopathic Medicine from its Biddeford campus to its Portland campus. This project has been supported with the announced $30 million grant from the Alfond Foundation. The new facility will enable 色香视频 to strengthen its interprofessional educational model by bringing all of its healthcare programs onto one campus which will allow for a high level of collaboration between all programs and support new technologies in its curriculum like high definition virtual simulation and telemedicine.

The new building is being designed to be located behind the existing Innovation Hall (former Armory building) on Stevens Avenue and is currently slated to be completed in the summer of 2023.

The new building will include classrooms, lecture spaces, student-centric study spaces, clinical skills and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine labs, a donor/gross anatomy lab, multiple meeting/conference spaces, along with faculty and professional staff office space. The building will be connected to the existing Innovation Hall building for connectivity to adjacent programs. Innovation Hall will have several areas renovated to support expanded simulation labs and provide space for 色香视频鈥檚 Interprofessional faculty and professional staff.

Way-finding Upgrades and Improvements

Biddeford and Portland Campuses

The University is currently finalizing its overall designs to replace the current way-finding signage on both of its campuses to improve function, increase aesthetics, and promote the 色香视频 brand. New signage for the Biddeford campus will need to be included in 色香视频鈥檚 update of its Master Plan with the City of Biddeford for approval, which will take place this year.

The plan is to roll out the new signage in multiple phases over the next several years. Phase 1 work will consist of main campus entry signs, exterior building signage, vehicular directional and parking lot signage along with pedestrian directional signage and campus maps. Phase 2 work will consist of internal building signage, including building lobby directories, way-finding signage in hallways, and departmental signage within all buildings.

Phase 2 of the project will begin this year.

For questions or concerns related to current projects, please email uneprojects@une.edu.

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