Design, Construction

A new grant from VentureWell will provide curriculum development support for a series of courses focused on sustainable building and entrepreneurship.

A WSU project to make novel building materials from construction waste is continuing to gain traction with a commercialization grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

Interior design student Leigh Ann Bryan shifted her award-winning capstone studio project earlier this year to focus on the realities of COVID‑19.

Hannah Thayer began thinking of design as a career choice when she visited a women's shelter in Kenya in 2014. She has followed her passion ever since and is now pursuing a master’s degree in interior design.

The clamor for affordable housing has risen to the breaking point across the state. A WSU effort is exploring solutions that could involve a reshaping of our vision of housing.

Students in the School of Design and Construction are invited to take a 3-session, free virtual tour of Kyoto, Japan, New York City, Paris, and Columbus, Indiana.

A group of WSU graduate architecture students had the chance to work with the building material of the future – wood – as part of their architecture studio design course.  

WSU and Clemson University researchers have found that insufficient training for construction workers in hospital settings may be contributing to fungal disease outbreaks that endanger patients.

More than 1,540 students from 53 universities and 21 states participated in the recent Associated Schools of Construction competition, the largest construction management competition in the U.S.

The WSU team used construction management skills and technical writing to develop a proposal for a real‑life construction project.