Roughly fifteen engagements across school districts, a regional education service agency and a public library consortium, all of them shaped by the same two constraints.
Eligibility. Federal E-Rate funding covers some categories of equipment and service and not others, and the line does not follow engineering logic. A design that is technically right and partly ineligible is not a design that will be built — it is a district being asked to find local money it does not have. So the eligibility rules sit inside the architecture rather than beside it, which means the architect has to know them rather than hand the drawing to somebody who does.
The funding-year window. Applications, commitments and installation all fall inside a calendar nobody involved controls. Miss it and the work does not slip a month; it slips a year, into a different funding cycle with a different competitive filing.
Designing to a funding instrument is a discipline in its own right, and it is the same one that runs through the library system network and the digital divide pilots earlier in this record: in public-sector technology the money has rules, and an architecture that ignores them is an opinion.
Outcome
Designs that were fundable as drawn — the only kind that gets built in this sector.