Charlottesville, VA – December 7, 2007 — Virginia Tech has chosen Barton Malow to renovate the 1,280-bed Ambler-Johnston Residence Hall on its central campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. The modernized facility "will play a major role in attracting students to live in a soft-light-warm environment composed of small communities, which will share common spaces for use by the surrounding residence hall community," according to the university.

Resident rooms will be updated, elevators replaced, study rooms added, and entrances expanded. A crossover connector will hold room suites, seminar rooms, offices, and gathering spaces. Heating / ventilation / air-conditioning, electrical, plumbing, and fire protection systems will all be replaced. The project will seek LEED Certification; this means formal designation by the US Green Building Council that the residence hall has met the standards of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Preconstruction is under way, with ground-breaking scheduled for May 2009. Clark Nexsen is the project architect.

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