Seems kind of ridiculous if you ask me, but what do I know, my program was in the college of arts and sciences back then.
I'm not a fan of demolishing the old stuff either. At least not the Hokie Stone buildings. Why can't someone get rid of Whittemore instead?
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Randolph was not Hokiestone and one of the reasons they could not do significant renovations was due to the large wind tunnel built into the building. 300 millions is quite a price tag!
This. The senior design lab they have in there for aero was supposed to open the fall of my senior year. Didn't end up opening until April, one month before graduation, because they underestimated how much asbestos was in there. A new building has been needed for quite some time.
As an AOE alum, I love this for those kids. As an almost 10 year alum, I hate thinking back to all times they told us this could never happen because of the wind tunnel.
ME grad class of 2015. Randolph Hall was in bad need of replacement back then - more so than Whittemore. Glad that it's finally being upgraded.
This is great. Rendering looks nice. Fits that part of campus.
Will they include a wind tunnel?
Also, with that donation I can see why the rename. What do do about the name Randolph that's been a campus fixture for decades? Hate to see that name removed.
Always felt like Randolph was a bit anticlimatic in the middle of engineering buildings. Drawing looks like it will be a nice upgrade
When I started in the Architecture industry, a square foot cost of over $1000 would have garnered jokes about gold plated toilets. These last couple years have made the construction industry insane.
So many good memories working in the basement of Randolph on Solar Car and in the solid fuel combustion lab. Wish they could somehow keep the name.
Randolph was where the intro engineering weeder courses were located. Fond memories of that building.