With support from the local construction industry in Seattle, the UW Department of Construction Management has embarked on an ambitious project to develop a research and education center at the old naval base at Sand Point.  There the Department has 25,000 SF of unfinished space located in two levels.  The site improvements will be performed in stages through four different construction/remodeling phases.  The goal is to finish the entire complex by 2009.  Construction of the first phase will commence in 2005.  

Dr. Eddy Rojas, Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Management, is the Executive  Director of the Center and as such he is responsible for development and implementing the Department's vision in conjunction with the rest of our faculty and partners (Human Interface Technology Laboratory, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, and College of Education).  

The Center will focus on three major areas of research:

- Virtual Construction (modeling, simulation, and visualization)
- Methods and Materials
- Construction Education

Finally, there will also be 4,000 SF of Flex space to provide flexibility to explore other topics on a project by project basis.