Dr. Valerian Miranda, head of the College of Architecture’s CRS Center for Leadership & Management in the Design & Construction Industry, architecture and environmental design students conducted a programming effort for the design of the new Veterinary Medicine Education Complex at Texas A&M University. The project’s architectural program includes the general direction the design of a building should take by first learning what the client’s goals and needs are. The new Veterinary Medicine Education Complex will be of 300,000 square-feet and cost $120 million USD. “Now we will have a building that truly matches the excellence of our faculty and students,” said Eleanor Green, dean of veterinary medicine, during the April 29, 2014 groundbreaking at the site of the Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences Education Complex, which is scheduled for completion in 2016.