Education - Higher Education
Modernizing and shaping the future of higher education facilities.
Bala’s versatility enables us to provide a wide range of services for higher education project types including research/teaching laboratories, classrooms, libraries, athletic facilities, residence halls, campus utility upgrades and others depending on the needs of the institution.
Our services span all project phases from site selection and space planning through preliminary and detailed design, bid documentation, contract administration and post-construction support. Bala helps higher education with the ever-changing complexities of implementing sustainability programs that fulfill commitments for campus-wide decarbonization.
Understanding how students engage on campus, where and how they collaborate, how they connect, and what nurtures community building is at the core of Bala’s holistic
engineering and technology services for building an engaging space to call “home” while on campus.
30,000+ Student Housing Beds Delivered for 20+ Colleges and Universities
Providing flexible academic space that promotes student development is essential. Students are demanding professorial engagement to be individualized and instantaneous using all of the communications methods they use in their daily lives. All of this has translated into adding more pressure on academic institutions to provide state of the art classrooms regardless of undergraduate or graduate-level programs.
Bala understands how performance spaces are operated and the coordination needed to bring a show in front of the bright lights. We recognize that audience and performer
experience is paramount, but we also know that universities need space flexibility to recover some of the cost of ownership for these costly, marquis venues. We work with university
administration, arts departments and facilities managers to deliver spectacular, yet versatile PACs with state-of-the-art theatrical lighting, sound and technology.
Student life encompasses an ever-widening array of activities and amenities to support them. Wherever students work out, hang out, and eat out is an opportunity for an improved collegiate experience. Enabling the quality and diversity of activities on campus is a Bala specialty. All of these spaces have HVAC, plumbing, electrical and technology requirements.
Universities have taken the lead in decarbonization planning and execution. Bala helps you navigate the ever-changing complexities of implementing sustainability programs. We have worked with world-class
educational institutions who are finalizing their master sustainability plans and are moving into implementation phasing.
Bala’s Technology practice group marries our digital and physical environments; aligning pedagogy, community, security and resilient building design into a holistic technology infrastructure. Bala’s classroom technology designs address the physical requirements of the space including space sight lines, seating layouts, lighting and finish impacts to digital engagement. Bala’s security planning work can address individual building requirements or a campus approach to security technology deployment and management.
- Net Zero / Decarbonization Master planning
- Digital Planning
- LEED Design & Commissioning
- Sustainability Strategies
- MEP Design
- MEP Infrastructure Evaluation & Upgrade
- Building Operations Support
- Critical Systems Testing
- Telecommunications
- Audio Visual Systems
