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The Myers-Lawson School of Construction’s biannual Construction Industry Career Fair stepped away from the internet and into the Inn at Virginia Tech for its first fair back in person. Read more about Construction Industry Career Fair sees big successes with return to in-person
The Department of Building Construction First-Year Experience (FYE) class is living up to its name. Many students in the program experienced life on a large construction site. A FYE grant provided the funding needed for the fun-filled weekend of industry learning in Charlotte, NC. Read more about Building Construction's FYE Class gives students an immersive construction experience
Virginia Tech's student competition team now has a new first and second place trophy to add to the collection of awards! The commercial and concrete teams won big at the competition in Atlanta. Read more about Virginia Tech takes home 1st and 2nd place in ASC Competition
Greetings from Bishop-Favrao Hall, where students, faculty and staff are back in-person. Our resilient community continues to be challenged by COVID – teaching and learn Read more about MLSoC Director's Message
Sydney chose CEM because it allowed her to earn a technical engineering degree while gaining management experience. She loves how the construction industry has many unique job opportunities, on-site and in the office, and that she can work anywhere in the world. Read more about Much Deserved Senior Awards
The Student Engineers' Council at Virginia Tech awarded $15,000 to Dr. Keresh Afsari. Dr. Afsari and her ARCADE Lab students, Srijeet Halder and Ryan King, focused their proposal on improving ARCADE and students' robotics experience in the lab. Read more about Dr. Afsari Awarded by the Student Engineers' Council
In the second semester of the CEM Capstone series, student teams proposed their own development projects sponsored by Flatiron Construction. This involved preconstruction planning for a 2.4-mile-long bridge along N.C. 12 in Rodanthe, NC. proposed to the broader Rodanthe community. Read more about Online CEM Capstone Showcase
Join us for virtual capstone presentations - Our capstone projects simulate the competitive Design-Build (DB) process, where the Owner will select a DB partner based on evaluation of competitive bid proposals and final project interviews (Capstone Day presentations). In this simulation, student teams represent the construction side of the DB entity (i.e. the primary contractor) and MLSoC Industry Partners represent the Owner. Industry Partners will evaluate the performance of each team to select the first-, second-, and third-place teams Read more about Spring 2021 Capstones
Faculty and students in the Myers-Lawson School of Construction (MLSoC) and Virginia Center for Housing Research (VCHR) are analyzing sustainable, quality, and low-cost approaches to help solve the affordability crisis in Virginia and across the nation. Read more about Update: Answering the call to affordable housing
With women comprising only 10 percent of total people working in construction, it may seem difficult for young, female professionals entering the construction field to find their voice. Read more about Virginia Tech alumnae builds an online community for women in construction.
