Vice President for Campus Planning & Operations

Gregg Snyder manages the University’s real estate portfolio and oversees space and campus planning, real estate, design and engineering, project planning and delivery, facilities maintenance, energy management, deferred maintenance planning and asset management, and various campus services across Boston University’s varied 15.6 million square feet physical plant portfolio in the City of Boston, Town of Brookline, and several locations domestically and internationally.

In this role, Gregg oversees the following offices:

Facilities Management & Operations provides the day-to-day maintenance services necessary to support the University’s physical operations. This department is comprised of hundreds of skilled trades workers, engineers, and custodians, who maintain and improve Boston University’s campuses to ensure a clean, attractive, safe, and sanitary environment for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

Planning, Design & Construction is organized in 3 groups – Campus Planning, Annual Capital Projects, and Major Capital Projects and a myriad of consultants and contractors, overseeing 200+ projects a year averaging $140 million in spending. Campus Planning focuses on the University’s long-range planning, guiding campus development in a way that gives physical form to the University’s mission, vision, and programs through the effective use of human, environmental, and financial resources. The Annual Capital Projects group oversees a wide range of projects a year valued at less than $15 million dollars each.  The Major Projects group is dedicated to high-profile major renovations and new construction projects greater than $15 million.

Real Estate is responsible for property acquisition and disposition, residential leasing for faculty and staff apartments, as well as the management and oversight of the international real estate, real estate gift transactions, and University-owned commercial properties, including all leasing and project development.