For more than a decade, Inger Rice has been turning her dream of housing a premier environmental research center at VCU into a reality. In 2000, Rice gave 342 acres of land along the lower James River to VCU as a location for the university to build an environmental research and education center. In the subsequent 15 years, Rice has continued to financially support the center. In 2015 she made another donation to to fund a multibuilding overnight lodge and to contribute to the construction of a research laboratory on the property.
2RW provided sustainable MEP/FP engineering for the construction of a new meeting building and three guest lodges with nine guest rooms. The lodge is designed to be simple and efficient with user-friendly designs which include:
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