The Price paid for building anew

Abstract

Currently, the University of Missouri-Columbia has seven construction projects being worked on throughout campus according to the campus facilities department. With the increasingly important goal of providing a top-notch campus to attract students worldwide, construction has seemed to be the one constant over the past decade. Though the end results of these projects represent an overall improvement in current building quality and aesthetics, the long construction process provides burdens to both the student and the local environment for the short and long term.