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National Institute of Aerospace\'s New Facility Groundbreaking |
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March 12, 2004 - March 12, 2004 marks the first phase of the National Institute of Aerospace’s (NIA) permanent presence in Hampton, Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony signifies the beginning of construction on a new 60,000 square-foot facility and begins development of the Hampton Roads Center North Campus. The campus will consist of five buildings in a research and education campus setting, with NIA’s facility being the anchor building.
NIA will initially lease approximately 30,000 square feet of the three-story building. The new facility will house office space for executives, administration, faculty, researchers, and graduate students. Advanced technologies will be included for conducting meetings, workshops, and symposia, as well as offering state-of-the-art web-enabled classrooms for NIA’s graduate education program.
“The new facility will offer great advantages to our research and education programs,” said Dr. Robert Lindberg, NIA President and Executive Director. “Technology additions including wide-band communication equipment will enhance our distance-learning capabilities. It will offer a research-intensive environment for our faculty and staff scientists to collaborate with NASA Langley researchers and our other partners.”
“Today’s ground-breaking is an important milestone in our partnership with the foundation, universities, researchers, students and faculty that make up NIA,” said NASA Langley Research Center Director Roy D. Bridges, Jr. “This state-of-the-art facility will help the Institute contribute to the President’s exploration vision as well as NASA’s mission to understand and protect our home planet, explore the universe and search for life, and inspire the next generation of explorers through aerospace and atmospheric sciences research.”
The National Institute of Aerospace is a world-class research institute, located just outside NASA’s Langley Research Center. It was created to complement Langley’s mission to do cutting-edge aerospace and atmospheric research, develop new technologies for the nation, and help train the next generation of scientists and engineers.
NIA is a private, non-profit research institute formed by a consortium of universities and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation. The roster of major research universities includes consortium members: Georgia Institute of Technology, Hampton University, North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina State University, University of Maryland, University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and affiliate members: Old Dominion University and the College of William & Mary.
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