Graduate student Chinmay Lad became the 1000th person to earn the CM-BIM credential from the Associated General Contractors of America and therefore made the cover of the current issue of Constructor Magazine. He is pursuing his Masters degree in the Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. You can find the article here.
The MLSoC Spring Career Fair registration is now open.
Registration will be open until full and is filled on a first come first serve basis. Furthermore, the first 3 companies to commit to social sponsorship will be included in the first round of color booth selection, regardless of prior participation.
Dr. Abiola Akanmu, assistant professor in the Myers Lawson School of Construction, is leading the grant, “Impact of Interactive Holographic Scenes in Learning Applications of Data Sensing and Modeling.”
Environmental Design and Planning doctoral student Zachary Gould is part of Virginia Tech's largest cohort of Fulbright U.S. Student grant recipients in university history.
Zach will research energy consumption patterns of families living in homes connected to microgrids in Arusha, Tanzania. Microgrids are miniature versions of the electric grid. Gould hopes to design a microgrid system that will allow for energy autonomy in remote villages, paving the way for more efficient policies in Tanzania.
Forrester Construction has been named the winner of a National Safety Excellence Award from Associated Builders and Contractors.
Teams competing in the Solar Decathlon Design Challenge develop creative solutions for real-world issues in the building industry. From originally more than 80 entries, 48 teams were invited as finalists in 6 divisions to attend the Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Weekend. In the end, 45 teams presented their designs to a panel of industry expert jurors, compared their projects to those of other teams, learned from presentations by thought leaders and collegiate peers, and engaged with a variety of organizations about energy careers.
