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Estates and physical infrastructure

Our estates activity contributes to securing high quality physical infrastructure which meets the needs of the sector. A higher education institution's (HEI) estate should:

• support the institution's mission
• be sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms
• be efficient and represent value for money.

To help HEIs develop their estate we joined with the sector to produce Estates Management Statistics and played a central role in the work of the UK Space Management Group. Our primary relationship in this policy area is with the Association of University Directors of Estates.

We have developed an approach to capital funding that enables us to provide capital funding more flexibly and with lighter touch monitoring. Carbon performance will be a factor in future capital allocations.

For further information contact Andrew Smith, tel 0117 931 7001, e-mail a.smith@hefce.ac.uk or Stuart Cross, tel 0117 931 7349, e-mail s.cross@hefce.ac.uk.

Last updated 14 June 2011