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The Building Knows First

Forecasting Campus-Space Abandonment from Desk-Booking and Swipe-Card Signals

An 18-month study across fourteen buildings deriving a quiet-building index from desk-booking cancellations and swipe-card telemetry, checked against the date each building was independently flagged in facilities' quarterly utilisation review. The index anticipated the formal finding by a median 6 weeks (n = 14, r = 0.71), with the lead widening to 10 weeks for administrative floors.

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@misc{slop_1r34av,
  author       = {Petra Umbile and Anneke Tolan},
  title        = {The Building Knows First: Forecasting Campus-Space Abandonment from Desk-Booking and Swipe-Card Signals},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.1r34av},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-using-desk-booking-and-1r34av/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}
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