If you thought renovation was easy, you’d be wrong. Identifying weak points and finding the strong ones worth keeping is no easy task. Our work on the Southwestern University Fondren Jones Higher Education Center is one such example. We had to ride that tenuous line between expansion and renovation and find the right proportions of each. The results were efficiency at its finest. We did away with what couldn’t work and kept what did, giving the center a new face for the years to come.