Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment

Summit on Juniper at Dartmouth College TMO The Michaels Organization. (Photo credit to Robert Smith of The Michaels Organization).

As housing costs rise, colleges, universities and developers are teaming up to address a widening affordability gap at their campuses by making housing available and attainable for the population that needs it. One of the developers leading this charge is The Michaels Organization, which is applying lessons learned in its 50 years of affordable housing development to create student housing dedicated to serving students, faculty and staff who would struggle to pay market rent. Student Housing Business queried Ned Williams, executive vice president of development at The Michaels Organization, about …

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Brad Hufford Dickson Furniture Reshoring

Supply-chain predicaments and rising costs forced many in the student housing industry into a holding pattern as the 2021–2023 global supply chain crisis took its toll. Materials and shipments were caught in limbo while properties and their students had to wait for deliveries on a drastically expanded timeline. Fortunately, those challenges have greatly subsided, according to most industry experts. Freight costs have fallen below their pre-pandemic rates, providing some relief for furniture manufacturers that rely on overseas shipments. However, savvy student housing experts are taking the present moment to review …

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Amanda Bowen Custom Furniture Experience Case Studies

Properly scheduling job site deliveries and services can prevent days of delay and added costs that arise when pivotal events in a project overlap. Even experienced student housing developers can forget this, not to mention new entrants to the industry, who may have only vague notions of the time and resources required to complete the many construction and vendor tasks that lead up to student move-ins. Just ask Amanda Bowen, director of business relations at Dickson Furniture Manufacturers. This summer, her team arrived on the appointed day to install furnishings …

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Interior Designer Talks Student Housing Trends

Interior design can be vital to success in student housing. Marketing can be a joy when a property’s layout, hues and textures consistently wow potential residents during walkthroughs, and when thoughtfully planned and engaging, amenities help close the deal on lease after lease. Equally important is how well the selection of materials, fixtures, furnishings and appliances stand up to daily use and abuse by a student resident population, which can strain everything from exercise machines and outdoor equipment to study room furniture and electronics. To learn what owners and developers …

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ISP Student Housing Zavala quote

Moving in residents for the new school year is typically the most challenging season on a student housing manager’s calendar. In a matter of days, arriving tenants transform properties from a state of anticipatory stillness into a teeming hive of carts, boxes and people eager to settle into their units and connect their devices. “Students are sophisticated, high-volume Internet users,” observes Alfredo Zavala, an account coordinator on Pavlov Media’s account management team. “They expect to be connected to the Internet almost before they arrive.” “An Internet service provider that addresses …

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Dickson Furniture Manufacturers ESG LEED

Student Housing Business spoke with chief customer officer, Adam Ames, and director of sales, Kris Benson, to learn how Dickson Furniture Manufacturers continues to innovate as the student housing industry evolves, as well as the significance of adhering to environmental, social and governance frameworks and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification requirements. Dickson’s competitive advantage begins with its oversight and quality control capabilities. With local resources and domestic production and distribution, Dickson provides unmatched customization as well as a commitment to customer service no matter the circumstances. “Most …

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  The March 28 webinar “Student Housing Case Study — Partnering with a Custom Furniture Fabricator Brings a Vision to Life,” hosted by Student Housing Business and sponsored by Morgan Li, covered important questions in the world of student spaces. This hour-long presentation focused on case studies in the industry and what can go right when partnerships take on design goals, modular approaches, production issues and more — as a team. Learn more about these topics and more: The benefits of modularity and why it’s becoming so popular. What design trends are students excited about? Design …

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The Dickson Furniture Manufacturing plant

Selecting a vendor for off-campus student housing furniture means considering many moving parts to keep a complicated process moving forward. To talk timing, process and practical considerations for furniture, Student Housing Business sat down with Kris Benson, director of sales at Dickson Furniture Manufacturers, a U.S. company that specializes in designing, engineering, building and coordinating the delivery and installation of student housing goods. When considering purchasing furniture for a student housing property, Benson recommends the following checklist of important questions to streamline the process: What is your timeline? Who are you …

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Doug Mueller Student Housing Furniture Design quote

Just as modern student housing suites are rendering the utilitarian college dorm rooms of past generations obsolete, more stylish furniture options in today’s units have replaced yesterday’s purely functional and no-frills standard. Considering the habits of the average college renter are evolving much more slowly, however, student housing owners continue to demand durability. Ultimately, this characteristic directly affects the value of properties, suggests Doug Mueller, CEO of Dickson Furniture Manufacturers, a Houston-based company that primarily caters to the student housing and hotel industries. That’s especially true when considering furniture typically …

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  The March 24 webinar “Increase Student Housing NOI & Equity Value with Water-Leak Mitigation Technology,” hosted by Seniors Housing Business and sponsored by Sensor Industries, focused on how monitoring systems and leak sensors can play a key role in reducing water costs, alerting student housing staff to leak issues and conserving water for on- and off- student housing communities. Host David Duckwitz, CEO of Sensor Industries, used case studies to illustrate how network-connected toilet and flood sensors can give insight to water use on a regular basis and can sound the alarm if flooding occurs. …

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