Reporting to the Deputy provost, vice-president, integrated planning and budget, the space planning office works closely with Institutional analysis and planning which maintains the university space inventory, and Plant operations, which manages new construction and renovation projects, to facilitate analyzing, planning and managing of space issues within the entire University of Waterloo community. Space planning also works closely with space peer review committees which are responsible for monitoring efficiency of space usage and space assignments for academic and academic support units, and with the space information advisory group which focuses on identifying space needs, barriers to effective allocation of space, enhancement of space use and management practice, and recommendations to forward to appropriate managers. Furthermore, space planning interacts frequently with deans and senior managers of academic support units, given each has significant responsibility for ‘local’ space planning which can have campus-wide implications.