Budgets and endowments diminish during economic hard times, but the demand for effective teaching and learning environments remains as during campus boom years – and now is increasing.

Imagine you are 80 years old and driving your wife to a university medical center for her cancer treatment. You arrive at a building complex that is intimidating, confusing and hard to navigate. You can’t find the parking garage, let alone the front door. By the time your wife has checked in, you have walked through a maze of corridors and can’t even remember where you left the car.