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BUILDINGS & GROUNDS

Temporary-Use Buildings Can Be Welcome Additions

Just about everyone has had an experience with a portable classroom — a one-story, railroad-car-like box on stilts or cinder blocks. You enter via a small ramp with painted 2-by-4 railings that leads to a plain door. The interior is not unlike other buildings on the campus — drop-in...

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