Join this dynamic discussion on the current landscape and future outlook for campus infrastructure and capital investment in higher education. The session will delve into the latest trends, opportunities, and challenges shaping the market, including how institutions are navigating financial constraints, evolving campus needs, and the demand for sustainable, resilient infrastructure. Explore innovative financing structures, partnership models, and strategies that are driving successful project delivery and long-term value creation for colleges and universities.

Jeff TurnerPresidentBrailsford & Dunlavey

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Deferred maintenance is often framed as a budgeting trade-off—but in today’s campus environments, it is increasingly a strategic risk with compounding financial, operational, and reputational consequences. This session explores how prolonged underinvestment in critical campus assets—from parking facilities and central energy plants to student housing and dining infrastructure—can erode value, disrupt operations, and undermine institutions' long-term success.

Using real-world examples, we will examine how deferred maintenance manifests differently across asset classes. In parking systems, aging infrastructure can lead to safety concerns, reduced capacity, and unexpected capital outlays. In energy infrastructure, delayed upgrades to central plants and distribution networks can lead to inefficiencies, increased emissions, and increased resilience risks for institutions. Within student housing and dining, deferred reinvestment can directly impact student satisfaction, occupancy rates, and revenue streams.

Importantly, this discussion will move beyond problem identification to practical solutions. Attendees will explore leading practices for quantifying deferred maintenance risk, integrating lifecycle planning into P3 agreements, and aligning incentives between public and private stakeholders to ensure sustained asset performance.

Whether you are evaluating a potential partnership, managing an existing portfolio, or planning long-term capital investments, this session will provide a clearer understanding of the true cost of waiting—and actionable strategies to address it before it becomes a crisis.

Universities have long been engines of research and discovery — but increasingly, they are also becoming anchors for dynamic economic ecosystems that extend well beyond their campuses. Innovation zones represent a powerful evolution in how higher education institutions leverage public-private partnerships to create physical environments where industry, academia, and government converge to accelerate commercialization, workforce development, and regional growth.

This session brings together university leaders to explore how their institutions are designing, developing, and managing innovation zones — and the critical role P3 structures play in making them viable. Whether your institution is exploring its first industry partnership or looking to scale an existing innovation district, this session offers practical insights and peer perspectives on one of the most compelling P3 strategies in higher education today.

Denise ChristensenDirector of Real Estate DevelopmentArizona State University Magesh Rajan, Ph.D., P.E., MBAVice President of Research and InnovationPrairie View A&M

Transforming the Campus Footprint

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Listen to employees’ actual experience transitioning from a university employee to a 3rd party operator and the importance of understanding the unique sensitivities of each employee. Retaining the operations team and ensuring their enthusiasm, interest and excitement is critical to a successful transition. The importance of open communication to university employees is critical to developing trust with the new 3rd party Operator. CenTrio’s VP of Corporate Development will moderate the session to facilitate hearing directly from CenTrio employees that transferred from the University to the 3rd Party Operator. The panel will include CenTrio’s HR Manager to round out the discussion from the 3rd Party Operator’s perspective.