RADFORD – The Foundation of Clark Nexsen, an award-winning architecture, interior design, engineering, landscape architecture, and planning firm in Charlotte, N.C., has granted $8,500 to the Radford University Foundation, Inc., to provide state-of-the-art software for a computer suite of 21 work-stations for RU’s interior design program.

Making the presentation on behalf of Clark Nexsen was Principal Robert T. Gunn, AIA, LEED AP, who was appointed in 2008 to the Advisory Board of Radford University’s Interior Design Department.

(In the photo, from left: College of Visual and Performing Arts dean Joe Scartelli, interior and fashion design chair Lennie Scott-Webber, and Clark Nexsen Principal Robert T. Gunn.)

Quoting from the letter accompanying the check, Gunn says, “This software will enable your interior design students to be trained on the platform that is rapidly becoming the standard in Building Information Modeling for architecture, engineering, and interior design.  It will take drawings beyond the third dimension and into the fourth, as each line represents information within the building.  Its enhanced graphics capability will also allow your students to create three-dimensional models of persuasion and communication as well as information.”

Clark Nexsen is a premier architecture, interior design, engineering, landscape architecture and planning firm with more than 89 years of experience. The firm’s architecture and engineering design teams specialize in college and university buildings, commercial, healthcare, food-service, recreational and manufacturing.

College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean Joe Scartelli said, “I do not consider this just a gift as much as I do an ‘investment.’  Given the difficult economic conditions in which we find ourselves, we must remain forward-looking and prepare our students for a future that will certainly continue to evolve.”