Our Mission

We will provide a unified identity for excellence in construction education, research and outreach within Virginia Tech, to the academic community and to the construction industry.

Our students will come first

We will educate inquisitive values based leaders, thinkers, and integrators able to succeed in all sectors of our industry by providing an education founded on technical, managerial, and practical knowledge.

We will cross boundaries

We will provide a critical mass of faculty and students to work across traditional boundaries and share learning environments, research, and academic life without the constraints and preconceptions of traditional departments.

We will value discovery

Our learning environments and research will be based on the needs of our industry and communities, without compromise in creativity and technical quality.

We will grow a construction community

We will partner with our industry to be the benchmark provider of knowledge and leadership and make construction a career of first choice.