VA: Virginia Tech to Spend $75M Toward Infrastructure 'Destination Area'

Virginia Tech will spend $75 million to develop part of its innovation-focused curriculum, complete with new buildings, additional faculty and initiatives such as a caged drone facility near the school’s Duck Pond.

The money will go toward providing researchers, faculty and students with tools to develop autonomous vehicles, smart construction techniques, urban planning, drone research and other infrastructure technologies as part of Tech’s “intelligent infrastructure for human centered communities” destination area.

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