Tiger Giving Day 2025 Funds BSCI’s Disaster Relief Tools

The funds will allow the School to outfit a disaster relief trailer with tools and equipment, so it can be deployed by student construction teams to assist in recovery efforts.

The disaster relief trailer is part of the BSCI’s Service Learning initiative, a course run from the Robins & Morton Field Lab that provides students with hands-on construction experience building projects that benefit the community. The new tools will increase the program’s capacity to help those in need—with two fully outfitted trailers that can be deployed when necessary—while contributing to the student’s experiential education.

“With several Service Learning classes each semester fully utilizing tools, these additions will greatly improve trailer scheduling,” said Andy Hughes, Robins & Morton Field Lab Manager. “We are looking to equip trailer with hand tools, battery tools, ladders and a generator. Anything equipment that a team would need to help at a disaster relief site.”

CADC Director of Philanthropy Christopher Griffin remarked that Tiger Giving Day allows the College of Architecture, Design and Construction to highlight the amazing work happening within the College.

“It is amazing to see the CADC family come together to fund an opportunity for our Building Science students that allows these students to impact those that need it most,” Griffin said.

In previous years, Tiger Giving Day has supported the Landscape Architecture’s Experience Alabama Fieldwork Program, the Shoe Design Outreach Program for high school students, the preservation of the historic Rosenwald Schools and civil rights research for the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.

“I am excited to hear how today’s philanthropy impacts our students’ experience and the memories they take from their time here on the plains,” Griffin said.