Virginia Tech will open its Innovation Campus on the first day of classes on Tuesday, Jan. 21.
The school is still lining up speakers for the ribbon cutting in late February, and the exact date for that event hasn’t been lined up, according to Franki Fitterer, the campus director of communications and marketing.
The three-building, $1 billion campus broke ground in 2021. The first building was initially planned to open later this year, but was hit with supply chain issues resulting in construction delays.
The 11-story, 300,000-square-foot building features a two-story lobby, and used “next generation computational processes and artificial intelligence informed building modeling techniques,” according to Virginia Tech.
“Campus plans call for Virginia Tech to build two additional buildings, each about 150,000 square feet, as the campus grows,” according to Virginia Tech. “At its full build-out, the Innovation Campus will host approximately 750 master’s and 200 doctoral students and graduate 550 master’s and 50 doctoral candidates annually.”
In August, Virginia Tech announced that the first building was nearing completion.
“Without a doubt, it’s just a gorgeous building from the outside with remarkable shapes,” said Lance Collins, vice president and executive director of the Innovation Campus. “Those faceted shapes to me are very distinctive. It will be iconic in the region, and it also features an interior that is very open and encouraging of collaboration. I think we all recognize that.”
