The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) campus is located on Slayton Avenue in the Cyber Park of Danville, Va. Its growing campus, which includes seven buildings and serves numerous organizations, is a place for mutual success.
Main IALR Building
- 150 Slayton Ave.
- 90,000 square feet
- Opened 2004
The iconic main building sports an impressive steel, glass and brick façade. Divided into several wings, this building houses support staff and four of the five IALR divisions—Advanced Learning, Applied Research, Economic Development and the Conference Center. The latter includes a variety of flexible meeting spaces, including the Great Hall, classrooms, research space, an auditorium, conference rooms and an on-site restaurant, Megabytes Café.
Other Buildings on the IALR Campus
ATDM Maritime Training Center (100,000 square feet) - 231 Slayton Ave.
Opened 2025
The ATDM Maritime Training Center is a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot facility that houses the Accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing (ATDM) program. Equipped with spacious labs and classrooms for each of the program’s five focus areas and space for training and support staff, the training center is allowing ATDM to scale. Every year, 800-1,000 students will train at the Maritime Training Center across all three shifts.
Center for Manufacturing Advancement (51,250 square feet) - 211 Slayton Ave.
Opened 2023
As Virginia’s hub for high-performance manufacturing optimization and advancement, the Center for Manufacturing Advancement (CMA) equips manufacturers to be globally competitive. The CMA is home to several process improvement spaces—the CNC Machining Innovation Lab, Precision Metrology Lab and Industry 4.0 Integration Lab—that allow industry to seamlessly integrate emerging technology, as well as the U.S. Navy’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence and several rapid launch spaces.
Charles R. Hawkins Building (37,500 square feet) - 230 Slayton Ave.
Opened 2006
The Charles R. Hawkins Building houses staff and leadership of IALR’s Manufacturing Advancement division. Additionally, the Gene Haas Center for Integrated Machining is the home of the Integrated Machining and Technology program – a unique third-year machining program offered through a partnership with IALR and Danville Community College. The facility also has rapid-launch space for growing manufacturers.
Future IALR Expansion (30,000 square feet) - 149 Slayton Ave.
Sustainable Energy and Technology Center (SENTEC) (26,000 square feet) - 228 Slayton Ave.
Opened 2012
SENTEC, a high-end building boasting a 3,800 sq. ft. high bay, offices and analytical and processing labs, promotes research and development with leased tenant space. The SENTEC building achieved LEED Gold certification, which addresses carbon, energy, water, waste, transportation, materials, health and indoor environmental qualities.
Rapid Launch Facility (14,000 square feet) - 232 Slayton Ave.
Opened 2020
IALR’s Rapid Launch Facility helps existing industries significantly reduce the traditional startup time as they establish new business operations in their own facility within the region. Completed in February 2020, the Rapid Launch Facility includes two high bay launch spaces as well as office and meeting space. A key selling point for IALR’s Economic Development team, this critical resource helps new and existing industries significantly reduce the traditional start-up time as they establish new business operations in their own facility in the area.
In addition to the buildings on the IALR campus, there are multiple greenhouse facilities.
- The Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Innovation Center is a research hub and agricultural technology training center for the CEA industry. This is a partnership with IALR and Virginia Tech.
- Another greenhouse facility houses various research projects for IALR and other organizations and tenants.
