Our Mission
Housed within the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech, the Facilities Investment & Finance Initiative (F2I2) is geared toward fundamentally improving how institutional owners program, finance, and deliver projects. What is an institutional owner? Such an owner typically holds a large portfolio of real assets that are not readily traded in the marketplace (such as GSA, VDOT, Virginia Tech, Intel). With nearly $1 trillion being invested annually in development, improvement, and preservation of real assets in the United States, F2I2’s pursuits help facility owners and developers achieve more efficient use of these resources throughout the lifecycle of their assets.
Our Strategy
F2I2 integrates knowledge from outside the traditional scope of engineering and construction management programs to enable students to consider facility lifecycle issues comprehensively. Supplemental coursework—such as economics, finance, and decision science—is tailored to each student’s background, and structured research opportunities apply these tools to investigations of current topics in the field. Decision modeling and case studies are central elements of our pursuits.
Our Competitive Edge
The Myers-Lawson School of Construction provides faculty depth that few other institutions can match. In addition, F2I2 has strong connections with faculty in the Pamplin College of Business. This provides students and industry partners with unparalleled access to world-class faculty who can help further their personal and professional goals.
We are strategically located in Virginia, one of the most active states in innovative project delivery and public-private partnerships. Further, Washington D.C. is a short trip from the Blacksburg campus. Thus, we are able to take advantage of the industry's strong presence in the region and closely coordinate our activities with both public and private organizations. This allows students unique opportunities to learn from current developments in this constantly-changing field.