Steve, welcome to the gorey center, the home of the McWherter School of building science. A fun fact about this building is that it was the first LEED certified building built on Auburn's campus. You may notice that a lot of our building is left unfinished. This is for a purpose. Our students are meant to learn while they're in the building from it so around the building, you'll see things like steel beams, fire protection and conduit left exposed outside of the classroom. Students have plenty of things to do, like competition teams. These teams compete against schools from around the nation and around the globe to put their skills to the test. And as you'll see here, we place every semester, with a lot of them winning first.
This is the Visualization Lab, or viz lab, where our BIM Revit and other virtual models all come to life in this room, professors have the flexibility to set themselves up on three large multi monitor displays, and can view anything from dual screen computers to projectors, or use our whiteboard projector for teaching. These are our competition team rooms. These are open to students throughout the entire semester. They're on a team, and they can use them day or night to prep for their competition. Here on the second floor, we have gory 205 in this room. You'll have plenty of your estimating and modeling classes. This is a multi use space. It can be used for collaborative opportunities, computer lab space or lecture. This is our student lounge, available to students all the time. It has sitting and collaborative space so that you can use the computers or the tables between classes. Now we're on the third floor in our easel classroom.
Our professors remind us that construction is a people industry, and this room is set up for that. As you can see, all of the desks are set up in pods, along with a TV and whiteboard for group work. Next to this room is our advanced modeling classroom. In that room, you'll take your advanced modeling classes as well as any construction technology electives. Behind me is our IT department. They support all of the physical computers and software that we use. We're lucky to be one of the few schools on campus that has in house IT support. Our last stop is the thesis lab. In this room, students complete a project throughout the semester. The project is a culmination of all of the skills that they learned during building science. This is a dedicated space that they can use throughout the semester to finish their project.
