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The Research + Demonstration Facility is a research project involving the construction of an 11,200 sf experimental building on the VPI&SU campus between 1989 and 1993. The research agenda includes projects relating to investigations of 21 distinct products, materials, and building sub-assemblies, ranging from innovative foundation system components to unique roof, wall, and floor systems, and studies of the interrelations between these systems, undertaken by students and faculty in the College of Architecture + Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. Use the following links for more information concerning research objectives and proposals.

Take a guided tour of the research + demonstration web site via a PDF file (1.4mb). Acrobat Reader is required to view the tour.

Read a paper presented at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Conference at Howard University, April 1994 written by architecture professors William Galloway and A. J. Davis titled "A [ RESEARCH + DEMONSTRATION ] BUILDING."

This web site is intended to be used for extracting data related to research projects mentioned above. Presently, the site is setup as a "static" device in that you can only view and download historic or achieved information. In the near future this will become a more interactive site allowing the user to interpret data in near real-time.

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