[UVa News, by Zak Richards]

After a busy summer of construction in the old hangar at the University of Virginia-owned Milton Airfield, the four modules of ecoMOD4 – a first floor with kitchen and living area, a second floor with two bedrooms and a bathroom, and first- and second-floor stairwell-storage-powder room modules that tie the two stories together – will be hauled by tractor-trailer later this month, lifted by crane onto the prepared foundation, and assembled on its permanent Elliott Avenue site.

It's an exacting construction process.

"The stair module needs to line up to within a 16th of an inch of the front," said Edric Barnes, a mechanical engineering student in U.Va.'s School of Engineering and Applied Science, who served as an engineering manager on ecoMOD4 this summer.

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