The metric of square feet per student is the wrong metric of success for a science teaching building. The right metrics are: student enrollment, student retention, graduation rates, and grades. Occupancy density (square feet per occupant) also falls down as a project metric when instrument-intense environments are involved, which is a trend in the research arena. In science building renovation projects, the biggest budget and cost-estimating error is misjudging your net-to-gross square-foot ratio.

- From Tradeline’s College and University Science Buildings 2007 conference.

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