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OPINION AND COMMENTARY

  • Mobile Demonstration Kitchen Unit- Trailer Preparation
    Today was a great day for progress on the Mobile Demonstration Unit for the Blacksburg Farmer's Market.  Student volunteers arrived at 11am and worked all day.  We were able to grind, scrape the trailer, prepare the metal with primer and apply three coats of paint to the metal trailer.  We chose a maroon red for the color on the trailer. 
    Many thanks to the students who worked so hard today.  Go to the following link to see some pictures of the progress we made: https://sites.google.com/site/blacksburgmobilekitchen/home .
    Next, we will be welding the superstructure onto the trailer chassis.  Then, we will be attaching the decking and building the sides.
    Till then....
    Posted Oct 16, 2011 4:46 PM by Andrew McCoy
  • Sustainable Service, Part 4

    [The following is an excerpt from a Column in Electrical Contractor Magazine that is written by Fred Sargent, of Sargent Electric and me]

    Customers for Life:  A Gutsy Move to Shut Down and Start Over

    Published: August 2011

    Even for the famously entrepreneurial and highly creative Howard Schultz, it was a radical idea. Tough times needed tough measures, though. On Feb. 26, 2008, at precisely 5:30 p.m., Schultz—who re-entered Starbucks as chief executive officer that year to revitalize it—instructed staff to politely escort every one of its (millions of) customers out of the stores. Then, all 7,000 Starbucks’ U.S. locations simultaneously closed early.

    Read the full article online in Electrical Contractor Magazine: http://www.ecmag.com/?fa=article&articleID=12986

    Posted Sep 12, 2011 8:49 AM by Andrew McCoy
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STUDENT WORK AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • M-Team Final Presentations Calling all viewers!For those of you who were not present to see the final presentations of M-teams today, the majority were very well done!  I want to thank all of the students for their hard work over the long assignment #2.One presentation in particular was outstanding and is available for viewing on the Student Work page, the top right video of the page (click on https://sites.google.com/site/andrewpmccoy/student-work or the link on the right of this page in the navigation bar).Enjoy!
    Posted Apr 12, 2011 3:39 PM by Andrew McCoy
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STUDY ABROAD

  • Date:01/09 Location: Casceras Thoughts: Walid and I picked up the van and drove out to the coast today.  We chose to visit the Atlantic coast west of Lisbon, which is sort of the ...
    Posted Jan 28, 2010 5:17 PM by Andrew McCoy
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Andrew McCoy is an Assistant Professor of Building Construction, Associate Director of Technology Research in the Virginia Center for Housing Research and adjunct professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech.  He teaches several undergraduate and graduate Building Construction courses, including Principles of Construction, Integrated Leadership Studio and Innovation in Construction, which give students practical experience working on project management concepts for real construction projects.  His main areas of research involve diffusion and commercialization (via integration) of innovative projects in the construction industry, while he contributes construction subject matter expertise on residential construction supply chain, adoption, diffusion and commercialization of innovation, platform development, scheduling, estimating and industry appropriate r2p knowledge transfer.  He has over 15 years of experience in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry, including 8.5 years of fieldwork and 4.5 years of managing a firm that maintained a Class A Virginia contractor license.  He received undergraduate degrees in Architecture and Architectural History from the University of Virginia, and an MS in Building Construction and a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning from Virginia Tech.

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