Capital Planning Process

Preamble to the Planning Process

Chancellor Richard Herman and I have requested a new capital project planning process be established for the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus.  This process applies to all project requests with an expected project budget greater than $500,000. 

The primary objective is to improve the project initiation phase by providing clear scope and program definition which will enable a project to move through the planning and approval process in the most expeditious manner possible.  The Facilities & Services Planning Division is positioned to provide the support you need to effectively launch your project ideas.

If your department has a project idea you would like to pursue, please review these new procedures that include the preparation of an initial proposal by your department.  There are also forms to complete and submit to the Facilities & Services Planning Division, Attention: Helen Coleman, Director.   The Planning Division will assist you with submitting your project for evaluation and approval by the Chancellor’s Capital Review Committee (CCRC). 

We anticipate this new process will help ensure that projects have been appropriately planned so that project ideas will become reality in meeting the programmatic needs of the departments involved in a timely manner.

Linda Katehi, Provost
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Capital Planning Process Materials

• Form PS-1 Capital Project Request for Program Statement/Project Conceptualization (PDF)
• Form FS-1 Capital Project Request for Feasibility Study (PDF)
• Planning Steps to Project Approval (PDF)
• Idea for a Project (PDF)
• Program Statement and Project Conceptualization (PDF)
• Feasibility Study (PDF)

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