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Location and Lodging
The classroom portion of this course will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott located at 105 Southpark Drive in Blacksburg, Virginia. The tour of the solar kiln will be held at the Thomas M. Brooks Forest Products Center, a 35,000 square foot complex on the edge of the Virginia Tech campus in the Corporate Research Center. The Brooks Center houses faculty, staff and students in the Department of Wood Science and Forest Products. The Center contains research laboratories and equipment for conducting research in many program areas of the department. The Center also contains labs for wood base composites manufacture and testing, a high-bay wood engineering lab with full-scale timber testing equipment, the William A Sardo Pallet Laboratory and the Center for Unit Load laboratory. A new wood drying laboratory was recently completed, with a stateof- the-art laboratory kiln. The Center is named in honor of the late Thomas M. Brooks of Quinton, Virginia, whose life was devoted to the proper utilization of Virginia's forest resources. Participants are responsible for making their own lodging reservations. A block of lodging rooms has been reserved at the Courtyard by Marriott in Blacksburg for the rate of $99 plus tax per night. All reservations can be made by calling (540) 552-5222. Reservations must be made by April 2, 2008. See the Continuing Education Area Information section for more information about the Blacksburg area.
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