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STBE Career Fair Hosts 129 Organizations & 611 Students!
Oct 8, 2025

Last Tuesday, September 30th, the STBE Department held the Fall 2025 CDRET Career Fair, which hosted 129 organizations from across the Construction, D...

Race to Build

STBE Students "Race to Build" Homes in Bristol, TN
Sep 22, 2025

From September 11th to September 13th, several of our STBE students participated in the Race to Build Event - a partnership between the Appalachia Ser...

STBE Students win awards April 2025

STBE Students Ethan Wittig, Skyler Strzelecki, Jonathan Culpepper, and Joseph Crews Receive Leadership and Research Awards
Apr 23, 2025

Over the last few weeks, a number of students in the STBE Department have been recognized for their incredible leadership, research, and service. One ...

Dylan Reed

Climbing the ladder: How an App State graduate turned his internship into his career
Sep 19, 2024

App State celebrated the completion of the Holmes Drive Parking Deck on Aug. 22, a project completed by New Atlantic Contracting, which employed one o...

SBA at IBS Convention 2023

SBA Trip to Las Vegas for the NAHB Convention and International Builders' Show
Feb 8, 2023

The Student Builder's Association club was able to fundraise money to send some of its members to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Con...

SBA Hosts Dog House Building Competition in November, 2022
Jan 6, 2023

The Student Builder's Association (SBA) held a dog house build competition in November, 2022. The Whiting-Turner contracting company graciously donate...

Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment gets Zero Energy Design Designation

Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment Receives Key Designation From the DOE
Sep 28, 2022

Two programs in the Department of Sustainable Technology & the Built Environment earned the first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation from th...

Rob Howard Named Plug-In NC Ambassador
May 31, 2022

One of our building science lecturers, Rob Howard, became a Plug-in NC ambassador in 2019 and is a long-time advocate for the adoption of electric veh...

adaptable solar shades used in a research project

Adaptable Solar Shades Installed
Jan 27, 2022

Graduate students Jackson Sloan and Dani Stockman constructed adaptable solar shades for one of Dr. Foroughi's research projects. The aim is to study ...