Expanding Industrialized Offsite Construction (Ioc) in Central Appalachia

Abstract

A grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission will help Virginia Tech create a road map to address the affordable housing crisis and promote innovative and sustainable construction practices in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The Virginia Tech Center for Economic and Community Engagement (CECE), in partnership with the Virginia Center for Housing Research in the College of Engineering, received a $453,743 grant through the commission’s Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE) initiative that aims to drive large-scale, regional economic transformation through multistate collaborative projects across Appalachia.