Purpose
To plan the future university campus, campus executives need decision-making support from theory and practice. Matching the static campus (supply) with the dynamic (demand) - while safeguarding spatial quality and sustainability - requires management information from similar organizations. This study presents an evidence-based briefing approach to support decision-makers of individual universities with management information when making decisions for their future campus.

Design/methodology/approach
For the proposed evidence-based briefing approach, the continuous Designing an Accommodation Strategy (DAS) framework is used in a mixed-method research design to evaluate the past to plan for the future. Five campus themes and three campus models (solid, liquid, and gas) are introduced to describe the development and diversification of university campuses and their impact across different university building types. Based on this theoretical framework, first, qualitative interview data are analyzed to understand which standards campus managers expect; second, a quantitative project database is used to demonstrate what is actually realized.

Findings
The findings demonstrate that remote working and online education will become more common. Academic workplaces and learning environments are more adaptive to changes than laboratory spaces. The analyses reveal different effective space use strategies to meet the current demand: they include space-efficient mixed-use buildings, and mono-functional generic educational and office spaces. These results show that operationalized evidence-based briefing can help design the future campus.

Originality/value
The study adds knowledge during a critical (post-COVID) period when decision-makers need evidence from others to adapt their campus management strategies to hybrid and sustainable ambitions.@en

The uncertainty generated by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and restrictions has challenged the strategic vision on campus development and management, intensifying the existing financial, functional, and spatial complexities of the university campuses. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the impact of COVID-19 on campus management and assess the current supply of campus buildings in the light of existing changes that stem from remote education and work experience. This study draws on the vision and strategies that Delft University of Technology’s campus research team has developed since the early 2000’s. To this end, the team incrementally conducted interviews with the campus managers and compiled a campus database that encompasses organizational, functional, physical, and financial data on 13 Dutch Universities and 64 campus buildings. Qualitative findings demonstrate that while the campus managers developed considerable experience in facilitating online work and study processes during the COVID-19 pandemic, they acknowledge the value of the campus as the home base for interaction and focus. Ultimately, campus managers opt for a hybrid model that can simultaneously accommodate the online and physical work/study environments. By utilizing the campus database the capacity of the current campus supply to accommodate this hybrid condition is assessed. Despite the experience gained during the campus lockdowns, we argue that only a limited part of the campus supply can accommodate this hybridity. Finally, we discuss the potential strategies in campus development to decrease this gap between the demand and supply.@en