Campus Officials Seek Building Efficiencies, One Square Foot at a Time

At Pennsylvania State University, they call Deborah L. Blythe the Space Queen. Her domain isn't exactly galactic, but it is vast and ever-expanding just the same.

She manages, assesses, and helps to distribute some 23 million square feet of classroom space, offices, meeting rooms, and laboratories on Penn State's 19 campuses. Now and then she grabs her digital camera, her keys to any room here on the flagship campus, and goes on a "walkabout" to look at a space that might be

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