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  2. Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies

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    The college has earned national recognition for its LumenHAUS project, a solar house designed and built by students and faculty of the School of Architecture + Design to compete in the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition, which went on to win the international Solar Decathlon Europe Competition in Madrid, Spain in June 2010. [21]

  3. Timothy Sands - Wikipedia

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    Timothy D. Sands (born March 26, 1958) is an American materials engineer who is the 16th president of Virginia Tech. [1] Sands previously was the acting president and as the provost of Purdue University .

  4. Charles W. Steger - Wikipedia

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    Charles William Steger Jr. (June 16, 1947 – May 6, 2018) was an American architect and engineer who was the 15th president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. He graduated in 1969 from Virginia Tech, where he also received his master's in architecture and Ph.D. in ...

  5. Wood drying - Wikipedia

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    Solar kilns are conventional kilns, typically built by hobbyists to keep initial investment costs low. Heat is provided via solar radiation, while internal air circulation is typically passive. In 1949 a Chicago company introduced a wood drying kiln that used infrared lamps that they claimed reduced the standard drying time from 14 days to 45 ...

  6. Large solar farm set to bring 250 jobs to local Virginia county

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    Apr. 14—HURLEY, Va. — A huge solar farm that will create 250 construction jobs and generate 60 megawatts of electricity is coming to Buchanan County, Va., Virginia lawmakers announced Tuesday.

  7. Justice vetoes solar bill aimed at drawing industry to West ...

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    Mar. 26—MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice on Tuesday vetoed a bill aimed at drawing new business and industry to the state, claiming the bill could harm the state's coal industry. The bill is HB 5528.

  8. Virginia Tech - Wikipedia

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    Virginia Tech's Burruss Hall VT's 6th president, Paul Brandon Barringer Virginia Polytechnic Institute logo in the 1899 yearbook. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute, a small Methodist school for boys in Southwest Virginia's rural Montgomery County.

  9. Coal-producing West Virginia is converting an entire school ...

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    An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar, representing what a developer and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's office touted on Wednesday as the biggest-ever single ...