Facilities and Real Estate

Mark Kocent in front of building mock-up

A conversation with Mark Kocent

University Architect Mark Kocent discusses his new role, 16 years at Penn, and the vision behind Penn Connects.

A busy sidewalk with pedestrians and Penn volunteers on Move-In day.

Navigating Move-In: Step by step, mile by mile

As families and first-year students plan their first move-in day at Penn, a central resource works to inform everyone’s commute.

Record-setting century bond

The University has secured a $300M century bond at the lowest interest rate recorded for a domestic century bond.

Summer construction is in full swing

From Penn Medicine’s evolving Pavilion to broken ground at Tangen Hall, campus will have a different look—and feel—when students return from summer break.

A smiling woman stands next to a screen that displays energy usage information for chiller plant system.

Saving energy in the buildings that save lives

In a Q&A, Kat Morlang, energy manager at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses optimizing chiller plants, swapping out inefficient lights, and other ideas to make the health system as energy-efficient as possible.

A scientist kneeling on a lawn checks a well using electronic monitoring equipment

Keeping rain out of the drain

From cisterns beneath Shoemaker Green to the green roof on New College House, special features of campus buildings and landscapes are helping manage stormwater to keep rain from the sewer lines, and scholars are using the infrastructure as a research opportunity.

Students with carts and bags walking down a walkway on campus in the daylight during Move-Out.

Hate to see you go: Move-Out 2019

A by-the-numbers guide to facts and services for the end-of-semester exodus.

A rendering of the new Tangen Hall building on the corner with pedestrian and auto traffic.

Design for new Tangen Hall offers game-changing student entrepreneurship space

The new building will be Penn’s first dedicated space for cross-campus student entrepreneurship and innovation activity.

A person in a lab pours a bin full of plastic petri dishes into a blue recycling bin.

Green labs group strives to make science more sustainable

With a Green Labs working group, Elicia Preston of the Perelman School of Medicine and the University’s Sustainability Office in Facilities and Real Estate Services are striving to make the pursuit of scientific research a more eco-friendly endeavor.

Blue stripe with Determination written on it in stairwell

Using stairwells for wellness

StairWELL, a Penn Sustainability Green Fund project, completed a yearlong pilot project last July that aimed to test how effective a stairwell makeover could be in increasing physical activity and reducing energy costs.

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