Lacy Hall, a new 20,000 square-foot facility in the University’s Engineering School, was dedicated Friday as a place for interactive learning among engineering students. It is located across the street from Slaughter Recreation Center.
The four-story building will serve as a new space for students to work in teams on innovative projects.
“[The building will] give modern quality facilities to a number of our student project teams who had been working in rather inferior space or sharing space with other groups around the University,” said Engineering Prof. George Cahen, associate vice president of the Virginia Engineering Foundation.
Cahen said the private donations of the Lacy family have played a major role in helping non-credit student projects achieve national success.
“If it were not for the private funds of the Lacy family, none of this would have happened, none of these teams, none of these successes,” Cahen said.
1967 Engineering School graduate Linwood “Chip” Lacy Jr. and his wife, 1966 Nursing School graduate Connie Lacy, were major donors to the building, which is named after both of his parents, Linwood “Bub” Lacy Sr. and Ann Warrick Lacy.
“He was very eager to create an opportunity for Engineering students to apply theory to real-life engineering problems, to have some fun while they’re doing it and to see the results of the theory they’re learning,” Connie Lacy said.
The building’s third and fourth floors make up the Ann Warrick Lacy Experiential Center. The ground-level third floor features open spaces and a doorway built to accommodate vehicles, while the fourth floor’s open design will be ideal for student interaction, according to a University press release.
“It’s not just for the Engineering School students,” Cahan said. “There are a fair number of College students majoring in chemistry and other areas who choose to join these project teams.”
The new building also highlights a collaborative effort between University Facilities Management and the Engineering School. Facilities Management occupies the first two floors of the new building while the Engineering School uses the top two floors.
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