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Sustainable Energy Speaker Series

Speaker Series--Putting Building Science into Practice: Technology and Building Forensics - March 26
Mar 20, 2018

Jarrett B. Davis, AMB, CGP, CDT, LEED AP BD+C, National Technical & Building Science Director – Max-Life Industries and Taylor Clay ProductsPutt...

Race To Zero Team Cardinal Approach 2018

Team receives coveted invitation to Race to Zero international competition in Colorado
Mar 15, 2018

On March 6, a team of Appalachian State University students was selected to participate in the Department of Energy’s Race to Zero competition in Go...

Chris Stevens, Technology Grad Student Repairing Turbine

Wind Turbine at Boone Crane & Rigging Repaired by STBE Grad Students
Mar 14, 2018

If you've driven into Boone on Hwy 321 in the past couple of years, you may have noticed the small wind turbine at Boone Crane & Rigging. On a win...

Sonlight prototype install at Beech Mountain

Sonsight Wind funds prototype testing of small wind turbine
Feb 26, 2018

BOONE, N.C.—Brent Summerville, practitioner-in-residence in Appalachian State University’s Department of Sustainable Technology and Built Environm...

Dream Job

CareerFest: Feb. 21
Feb 20, 2018

CareerFest is happening once again on Wednesday, February 21, 1:00-5:00pm at Holmes Convocation Center.  Over 100 employers will be there, with a...

IDEX River Reactions City of Elizabethton

IDEXlab presents to the City of Elizabethton Tennessee
Feb 12, 2018

Students in the IDEXlab (Integrative Design Experience Laboratory), have been working on a sponsored studio project with the City of Elizabethton’s ...

mobiLanding project on Beech Mountain

IDEXlab continues construction on the mobiLANDING
Feb 12, 2018

Snow or shine, the IDEXlab (Integrative Design Experience Laboratory) cohort continues construction of the mobiLANDING project on Beech Mountain, the ...

Zach Sprau, Class of 2011, 2017

Zach Sprau, STBE Alumnus: Solar Project Benefits Regional Homeless shelter
Jan 30, 2018

BOONE, N.C.—Zach Sprau ’11 ’17 graduated from Appalachian State University with bachelor’s degrees in music performance and psychology, a mast...

Supine Dome (1948) at Black Mountain College from bfi.org

Studio IV Goes To Black Mountain College
Jan 25, 2018

Students in TEC 4748 Architectural Design Studio IV, the senior capstone course for those concentrating in Architectural Technology and Design, are ex...

Access Health Africa in Malawi

Building Science Uses Design Thinking
Jan 25, 2018

Using the five steps of Design Thinking, students in fall 2017 sections of TEC 3728 Architectural Design Studio I worked with Access Health Africa Co-...