Developments at Virginia Tech
The official Tumblr of Virginia Tech's Office of University Development, located at the Gateway Center on the corner of University City Blvd., and Prices Fork Rd., in Blacksburg, Va.
This website is maintained by the Development Communications team headed by Albert Raboteau, Gary Cope, and Chuck George.
The Signature Engineering Building on 18 January 2013, a day after the first year’s winterstorm gave Blacksburg and the Virginia Tech campus 6 inches of snow. The SEB is expected to be open this time next year, in 2014. Its progress can be followed here, live, at our webcam from atop Whittemore Hall: http://www.eng.vt.edu/signaturebuilding/livecam
An anonymous donor committed $25 million toward the Signature Engineering Building currently under construction at Virginia Tech.
The largest single donation ever given to the 140-year-old institution was one of three multimillion-dollar contributions to Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering highlighted April 28, 2011 by university President Charles W. Steger.
Going on right now: Students and faculty are invited to sign a steel beam that will go inside the new Signature Engineering Building. Here, civil engineering majors Valerie Black and Becca Maine make their marks on the beam in front of Randolph Hall.
Have you signed the beam yet?
Update: The beam signing has been postponed until Thursday, April 19, because of rain. Faculty, students, and members of the community are again invited to lend their signature to the Signature Engineering Building. The times, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., will remain the same.
We thought this might be the case. It’s a rainy day in Blacksburg, but tomorrow should offer some better beam-signing weather.
BLACKSBURG, Va., April 16, 2011 — The College of Engineering invites Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff, as well as area residents, this week to place their signature and messages of goodwill on a steel beam that will be placed inside the under-construction Signature Engineering Building
Signatures will be collected Wednesday, April 18, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in front of Randolph Hall, near the courtyard main entrance. Engineering departments, such as mechanical, chemical, and engineering education, will move to the $100 million, 150,000-square-foot Signature Engineering Building when construction is finished in spring 2014. The Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering also will have a showcase lab in the new facility. The building is located near the corner of Prices Fork Road and Stanger Streets on the north edge of campus.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of Virginia Tech’s history! We’ll see you tomorrow between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
