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USGBC Students are college and university-based student groups, where students from any discipline come together to learn about and advance USGBC’s mission to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life.
Duke University USGBC Student Group
The green building study group that started in 2008 is now recognized by the Dean of the Nicholas School, the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC), and the U.S. Green Building Council. The group — renamed the Duke University USGBC Student Group — hopes to serve as a forum for graduate and undergraduate students across disciplines to work together to learn about and implement the best sustainable design and construction practices.
Thank you for all of your engagement/interest in green building —particularly those who have helped make the group a success so far. For those who are interested in learning more, please sign up for the listserv, leed@duke.edu, at https://lists.duke.edu/sympa and wait for the beginning of next semester.
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UNC USGBC Student Group
USGBC at UNC was founded in 2011 to be a cross-disciplinary group on campus to learn about and promote sustainable building practices. The mission of USGBC at UNC is:
1. To help members become LEED accredited in the highest qualified level;
2. To provide opportunities for guest lecturers to speak to members of the group and the university community; and
3. To provide opportunities to visit fully constructed LEED certified buildings as well as projects under construction or in the design and planning phases
Coming Soon
USGBC Student Groups are in the works at the following schools:NC State University
Wake Technical Community College
Meredith College
If you are interested in getting involved with these groups, or starting a group at another local university, please contact studentgroups@triangleusgbc.org.
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If you're interested in getting involved with Triangle Chapter Emerging Professionals or have general questions about the Emerging Professionals Committee, please contact Stephanie Coble.
Volunteer commitments can range from as little as 3 hours/month to as much as 40+ hours/month. We are happy to find a role within the organization to suit your interests and available time. Volunteering with the Emerging Professionals Committee is a great way to build a network of contacts within the green building industry, shape the future of green building in the Triangle, and help make a tangible difference towards our ultimate goal of making green buildings available to everyone in a generation.
More information about the EP Sub-Committees can be found below. Each Sub-Committee interacts directly with their respective Committee within the Chapter. If you are interested in volunteering with any specific Sub-Committee, feel free to contact that Sub-Committee's Chair or Co-Chair directly.
USGBC at UNC was founded in 2011 to be a cross-disciplinary group on campus to learn about and promote sustainable building practices. The mission of USGBC at UNC is:
1. To help members become LEED accredited in the highest qualified level;
2. To provide opportunities for guest lecturers to speak to members of the group and the university community; and
3. To provide opportunities to visit fully constructed LEED certified buildings as well as projects under construction or in the design and planning phases
UNC USGBC Student Group email contact:
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Officers & contact info:
UNC: President:
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The University Chairs serve mainly as liaisons between the USGBC Student Groups at the major Universities in the area (NCSU, Duke, and UNC) and the Triangle EP group. The University Chairs are responsible for:
• Representing the university to the EP group, and vice versa.
The Programming Committee is responsible for:
• Planning and coordinating all EP Programming.
The Outreach Committee is responsible for:
• Manage EP Outreach activities to like-minded groups and USGBC Student Groups.
The Membership Committee is responsible for:
• Managing Membership with chapter Membership Committee.
The Finance Committee is responsible for:
• Working with each EP Committee to develop a budget each year to submit to the board.
The Design Competition Committee is responsible for:
• Coordinating activities related to the North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition sponsored by Triangle USGBC, hosted by the NC Solar Center.
The Communications Committee is responsible for:
• Working with each EP Cmmittee and the USGBC NC Triangle Chapter to promote events, inform members, and encourage communication.
USGBC's 2010 Natural Design Competition, in partnership with Salvation Army's EnviRenew Initiative, is focused on the rebuilding effort in New Orleans. Competitors will be divided into students and young professionals groups and will design a LEED for Homes project that is priced affordably and is functional for elderly occupants. Up to four designs will be selected from the local competition finalists to be showcased at Greenbuild 2010 and, for the first time, the designers will see their projects built in New Orleans' Broadmoor neighborhood. Once the homes are built, they will enter a measurement and verification phase in which they will be graded on energy efficiency, water reuse, and indoor air quality among other categories. The design team whose home performs best during measurement and verification will be awarded the final grand prize.
In North Carolina, the NC Triangle Emerging Professionals have partnered with the NC Sustainable Building Design Competition which is managed by the NC Solar Center. The NC Triangle Chapter of USGBC provides a stipend for the winners of the NCSBDC to attend the USGBC's annual Greenbuild Conference.
About NCSBDC
The N.C. Sustainable Building Design Competition [NCSBDC] began in 2000 as a way to engage students in universities, colleges and community colleges to learn and apply the lessons of sustainable design and construction. Each year statewide winners see their design built as part of the grand prize. The program is currently administered by Advanced Energy and began as a collaboration with the Triangle Emerging Green Builder Natural Talent Design Competition in 2006.
Vision of NCSBDC
Growing crises in water and air quality call for vast changes in building design, materials and methods of construction. It is imperative that the retrofit of existing buildings and design of new buildings embody the innovation needed to forge an ecologically sustainable future — that is a future which is healthy and viable for the planet and all its inhabitants. The North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition [NCSBDC] emerged to address the growing concerns over ecological sustainability and the role of the design building industries for a healthy, viable future. The NCSBDC's goals lead toward this future by:
Developing student competency in sustainable building design
Fostering meaningful exchange between industry and academia
Ushering innovation into the design and building industry relative to sustainability
It is our desire that all new and remodeling construction projects employ sustainable guidelines. It is hoped that these practices will spur the development of guideline specifications for four zones in North Carolina (coastal, coastal plain, piedmont, mountain), and, this model (based on geographical zones) will spread throughout the United States and the world.
For more information on the NC Sustainable Building Design Competition, visit http://www.ncsc.ncsu.edu/sustainabledesigncompetition.php
For more information about the USGBC National Talent Design Competition, please visit
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