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onstruction and design professionals have become accustomed to value driven projects. Owners always want to maximize what they receive for their money, but the current economic climate has resulted in a heightened awareness of every dollar spent. The recently constructed Franciscan Center for Science and Media at Madonna University was no exception to this trend, but fiscal responsibility was only one of many values that the project
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team needed to adopt. Saint Francis of Assisi founded the Order of Friars Minor, better known as the Franciscans, but he is also revered as the patron saint animals and the environment, so a strong commitment towards sustainability was a virtual certainty. An early task for the project team was to define this value as it related to the built environment. The answer to this overriding question was not revealed until the