Space Utilization and Building Study for the Department of General Services, October 9, 2000

Purposes of this Report: • Recommend the most logical and economical options to address state governmental space needs in the Polk County metropolitan area to the year 2010. • Include building size, location, phasing, financing, method of project delivery and estimated cost. • Develop a software tool to compare costs of leasing vs. ownership of space. Methodology: Identify: 1. Current amount and location of owned and leased space, by agency; 2. Types of space and whether best located on or off of the Capitol Complex; 3. Utilization of space, noting over-crowding and under-utilization; 4. Current number of workstations for full and part time employees, Personnel Employment Organization (PEO) workers, contractors, interns, etc.; and, 5. History of staff levels to assist in the prediction of staff growth. Scope: This report focuses on 10 state-owned buildings located on the Capitol Complex and 48 leased spaces in the Polk County metropolitan area. (See Figures 1 and 2.) • Due to a separate space study under way by the Legislature, implications of area and staff for the State Capitol building are included only for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Secretary of State, Auditor and the Department of Management. • Because it is largely a museum building that does not have office space available for other agencies, the area and staff of the Historical Building are not fully addressed. • Only the parking implications of the new Judicial Building are included in this study because the building space is under the jurisdiction of the Judicial Branch and not available for other agencies. Several state-owned buildings are not included in the scope of this report, generally because they have highly focused purposes, and their space is not available for assignment to other agencies. Several leased locations are not included for similar reasons, including leases that do not fall within the authority of the Department of General Services.

State of Iowa Space Utilization and Building Study, October 9, 2000

Executive Summary Purposes of this Report: • Recommend the most logical and economical options to address state governmental space needs in the Polk County metropolitan area to the year 2010. • Include building size, location, phasing, financing, method of project delivery and estimated cost. • Develop a software tool to compare costs of leasing vs. ownership of space. Methodology: Identify: 1. Current amount and location of owned and leased space, by agency; 2. Types of space and whether best located on or off of the Capitol Complex; 3. Utilization of space, noting over-crowding and under-utilization; 4. Current number of workstations for full and part time employees, Personnel Employment Organization (PEO) workers, contractors, interns, etc.; and, 5. History of staff levels to assist in the prediction of staff growth. Scope: This report focuses on 10 state-owned buildings located on the Capitol Complex and 48 leased spaces in the Polk County metropolitan area. (See Figures 1 and 2.) • Due to a separate space study under way by the Legislature, implications of area and staff for the State Capitol building are included only for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Secretary of State, Auditor and the Department of Management. • Because it is largely a museum building that does not have office space available for other agencies, the area and staff of the Historical Building are not fully addressed. • Only the parking implications of the new Judicial Building are included in this study because the building space is under the jurisdiction of the Judicial Branch and not available for other agencies. Several state-owned buildings are not included in the scope of this report, generally because they have highly focused purposes, and their space is not available for assignment to other agencies. Several leased locations are not included for similar reasons, including leases that do not fall within the authority of the Department of General Services.

Space Utilization for the Boulder Cemetery

The purpose of this project in Boulder, Montana was to determine how much usable space was left in the cemetery for future burials and to locate old burial sites where headstones no longer exist.

Management audit : Department of Central Management Services' administration of the state's space utilization program.

"This is our report of the Management Audit of the Department of Central Management Services' Administration of the State's Space Utilization Program. The audit was conducted pursuant to Legislative Audit Commission Resolution Number 126, which was adopted December 11, 2002. This audit was conducted in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards and the audit standards promulgated by the Office of the Auditor General at 74 Ill. Adm. Code-420.310. The audit report is transmitted in conformance with Section 3-14 of the Illinois State Auditing Act."--Cover letter.

Constraint-Informed Information Systems in Space Management Utilization

Declarative techniques such as Constraint Programming can be very effective in modeling and assisting management decisions. We present a method for managing university classrooms which extends the previous design of a Constraint-Informed Information System to generate the timetables while dealing with spatial resource optimization issues. We seek to maximize space utilization along two dimensions: classroom use and occupancy rates. While we want to maximize the room use rate, we still need to satisfy the soft constraints which model students’ and lecturers’ preferences. We present a constraint logic programming-based local search method which relies on an evaluation function that combines room utilization and timetable soft preferences. Based on this, we developed a tool which we applied to the improvement of classroom allocation in a University. Comparing the results to the current timetables obtained without optimizing space utilization, the initial versions of our tool manages to reach a 30% improvement in space utilization, while preserving the quality of the timetable, both for students and lecturers.

Corporate real estate strategies - a multinational approach

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Sähkölaitekaapelipäätteiden kokoonpanotuotannon siirtäminen alihankkijalle

Työn tavoitteena oli selvittää kustannussäästöjä sähkölaitekomponentin kokoonpano- tuotannossa. Työssä vertaillaan oman ja alihankintatuotannon välisiä kustannuksia sekä tarkastellaan toiminnan joustavuutta, kun kokoonpano muodostuu kokonaisuudessaan ostettavista osista ja kuljetusmatka osien tuottajilta sekä myyjiltä on lyhyempi alihankkijalle, kuin omalle tehtaalle. Työssä järjestellään tuotteen kokoonpanolle edellytykset siirtymiseen alihankkijan hoidetta-vaksi niin, ettei siitä aiheudu ongelmia osavalmistuksen ja hankinnan, sekä valmiiden tuotteiden hallinnassa. Työssä selvitellään tuotteenmerkitystä ja sen kehittämistä sähkölaiteteollisuudelle. Tuotteen ja tuotannon kehittämisestä oli kohdeyrityksessä perustettu erityinen projekti, johon kuului myös muita sähkökaapeliliitäntään kuuluvia osia. Tuoteryhmä,jota tämä tutkimus käsittelee, siirrettiin alihankkijan kokoonpanotuotantoon vuonna 2000. Kaapelipäätteet kuuluvat yhtenä vaihtoehtoisena osana sähkölaitteiden voimakaape- loinnin läpivientiin ja suojaukseen. Projektissa kehitettiin 3 erilaista kaapelipäättä, joiden tehtävänä oli korvata 20 aikaisempaa mallia. Tällä tavoin kyseisen tuotteen ja sen komponenttien valmistussarjakokoja voitiin nostaa ja silti tuotannonkiertoa nopeuttaa, koska puskurivarastossa olevien variaatioiden määrä väheni 20:sta 3:een. Myös osa kokoonpanossa käytettävistä komponenteista voitiin käyttää kaikkien kaapelipäätemallien kokoonpanossa. Työssä vertaillaan kuljetuskustannusten eroa osahankinnassa oman ja alihankinta- tuotannon välillä, sekä vertaillaan varaston ja tuotannon tilankäyttöä ja tuotantokapasiteettia. Työn tarkoituksena on perustella ajatusta, että kuljetusmatkoja lyhentämällä voitaisiin saada kustannussäästöjä. Oman ja alihankintatyön kustannuksia vertaillaan ja huomattava säästö kokoonpanotyössä on tässä tapauksessa se, että alihankkijan laskutushinta työlle on alhaisempi, kuin mitä työn osuudelle on määritelty omassa tuotannossa. Varastotilan osalta vertailuatehtiin ainoastaan tilan käytön suhteen.

Redefining the Academic Library Managing the Migration to Digital Information Services

Academic libraries are faced with a daunting series of challenges brought on by the digital revolution. In an era when millions of books, articles, images, and videos available instantaneously via the web, libraries across all institutional types are experiencing declining demand for their traditional services, built around the storage and dissemination of physical resources. At the same time, new demand for digital information services and collaborative learning spaces promise new areas of opportunity and engagement with patrons. A rapid and orderly transition to “the library of the future” requires difficult trade-offs, however, as no institution can afford to continue expanding both its commitment to comprehensive, local print collections as well as new investments in staff, technology, and renovations. This report illustrates how progressive academic libraries are evolving in response to these challenges, providing case studies and best practices in managing library space, staff, and resources.

Universal Design in Higher Education

While colleges and universities increasingly draw upon the concept of Universal Design to create an ideal learning environment, it can be challenging to apply the concept practically in the classroom. This project explores innovative ways to incorporate Universal Design into campus architecture, classroom technology and curriculum development. Further, this brief describes different approaches used by universities to garner faculty interest and offer effective training in Universal Design.

Conexão cultura: um projeto de revitalização e reestruturação da estação ferroviária de Guaratinguetá

This work presents an intervention at the Guaratinguetá Railway Station and its surroundings, including this area in the urban context, at this moment isolated of the activities and citizen attentions, offering new activities on this commercial area. The selected area finds itself in a state of neglect and forgetfulness from the urban relations. Located between the periphery of the commercial center and the Paraiba do Sul River, the correlation is tension between the advancement of shops, the railway line, and the natural barrier of the Paraiba River. On the context of these limits, the railroad and the river stand as barriers for the center expansion and the flows that connect the old part of the town with the new part, which is growing and is called “post-city river”. These barriers have relegating properties around them to isolation, despite being located in the center. The area choice and this intervention seeks to break this isolation and the barrier flow, linking areas of opposite sides to form a leak through the barrier of the railway line. The pedestrian flow is prioritized in the project, this flow will be attracted by the program offered and by the new created areas, increasing the space utilization by users and breaking the isolation of urban activities. And entering the area in the context of life of city residents. The attraction of these new flows will be through the implementation of a Cultural Center, supplying a lack of city by spaces that offer this type of activity. Its implementation aims to attract and modify the activities of these spaces and the surrounding areas, one side facing the commercial center, and another facing the river, linking this two sides at the same time that this link provides the expansion of distance traveled and known

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BM+-tree: A hyperplane-based index method for high-dimensional metric spaces

In this paper, we propose a novel high-dimensional index method, the BM+-tree, to support efficient processing of similarity search queries in high-dimensional spaces. The main idea of the proposed index is to improve data partitioning efficiency in a high-dimensional space by using a rotary binary hyperplane, which further partitions a subspace and can also take advantage of the twin node concept used in the M+-tree. Compared with the key dimension concept in the M+-tree, the binary hyperplane is more effective in data filtering. High space utilization is achieved by dynamically performing data reallocation between twin nodes. In addition, a post processing step is used after index building to ensure effective filtration. Experimental results using two types of real data sets illustrate a significantly improved filtering efficiency.

Inmate population summary for July 15, 2016

These papers show the inmate population in South Carolina by male and female prisoners. It is broken down by count, agency high and month count and SCDC space utilization.

Inmate Population Summary for August 15, 2016

These statistics show the inmate population in South Carolina by male and female prisoners. They are broken down by count, agency high and month count and SCDC space utilization.

Inmate population summary for September 15, 2016

These papers show the inmate population in South Carolina by male and female prisoners. It is broken down by count, agency high and month count and SCDC space utilization.