Initiated simply as an overdue seismic strengthening of one corner of a huge (two million s.f.) former hospital building, our approach to this project took the scope of improvements well beyond upgraded life safety levels. While also resolving chronic inadequacies in the function and campus identity of the distingished graduate school it houses, it achieved LEED Platinum and did all this on schedule and within the original budget. Relying on necessary repair of unavoidable collateral damage to the school’s double-functioning main floor (school administrative suite and major campus portal) our design made sure that damage would occur in all the right places.