BOSTON–Erin McCabe, vice president for facilities at the Berklee College of Music, will speak at the upcoming P3 & Academic Facilities Conference on Jan. 22, 2025, at the Burlington Marriott Hotel in Burlington, MA, Boston Real Estate Times announced.
Produced by the Boston Real Estate Times, the conference will be held from 7:30 am to 10:30 am at Burlington Marriott.
To register, please click here.
Those who are not familiar with P3, such projects are long-term contracts that allow the public and private sector to participate in the design, construction, financing, operation, and maintenance of a project, now widely used in the academic sector, including student housing, across New England.
Although P3 has been increasingly playing an important role in projects ranging from public infrastructure to airports and healthcare, the 2025 P3 symposium will focus on academic and student housing facilities, providing insights into partnership trends and sectors to watch in 2025 and beyond.
Attendees will learn the following:
- Growth areas.
- Where are the P3 opportunities in New England?
- What universities and colleges need for facilities?
- Financing of P3 projects
- Design and construction challenges, among others.
To register for the conference, please click here.
About Erin McCabe
As vice president of facilities at the Berklee College of Music, Ms. McCabe oversees the operations of all campus facilities, including roughly 1.2 million square feet of owned and leased property, and in collaboration with Berklee’s senior leadership team, manages Berklee’s major renovation and construction projects. She provides leadership to the director of campus planning, the senior director of facilities, and their respective staffs; guides the programming, design, budgeting, permitting, and construction of Berklee’s capital projects; and works with her team to develop comprehensive, long-term facility operation and maintenance strategies. Working closely with the vice president of real estate and the vice president of community and government affairs, Ms. McCabe is supporting the preparation, review, and approval process of a new institutional master plan.
Prior to Berklee, Ms. McCabe served as director of facilities operations at Lesley University, where she oversaw roughly 1 million square feet of campus facilities across three campuses and 68 buildings, as well as an operating budget of $16 million. She also oversaw various capital projects, developed the university’s facilities management service plan, and initiated a vendor recruitment program to expand partnerships with women- and minority-owned businesses. Ms. McCabe previously worked for 10 years as an appraiser in commercial real estate, before serving the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as deputy director of finance and operations for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Ms. McCabe holds a B.A. in political science with a business studies concentration from Providence College, an M.B.A. from Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, and a graduate certificate in public policy from Suffolk University.
