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Friday, March 21, 2008

Designing, creating and getting approval for a functional card office facility

By Andy Williams Contributing Editor

Space is usually a premium at most colleges and universities. So when Georgia Tech underwent an expansion of its card office a couple years ago, it realized it may need room to grow. James Pete, director of the Buzz Card Center, the name of Georgia Tech’s campus card, a take on the university’s Yellow Jackets nickname, compares a card office to what he calls “the Web effect. It will never get smaller, just larger and more complex as the years go by.”

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