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Student Team Places Second at the State Level of the North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition
Team KISS placed first in the local level and second overall at the state level of the 2009 North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition. Team members are (front, left to right) Spencer Cameron, Caite O’Bryant, Belle Farish and (back) Andrew Woodruff and Andrew Wyndham.
An interdisciplinary team of students from the Department of Technology placed first overall at the local level and second overall at the state level of the 2009 North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition in April.
Team KISS (Keep it Simple and Sustainable) included students Spencer Cameron, Belle Farish and Andrew Woodruff, building science majors with concentrations in architectural technology and design; Caite O’Bryant, interior design major; and Andrew Wyndham, graduate student in industrial technology.
Instructor Don Woodruff, AIA, and assistant professor Chad Everhart, AIA, both faculty members in the Department of Technology’s building science program, served as faculty advisors for the competition.
This year’s competition asked students to design a two-story, multi-family, residential building to meet the needs of Community Alternatives for Supportive Abodes (CASA), a local organization created in 1992 that provides supportive housing for individuals with mental illness, developmental disabilities or substance abuse disorders. The approximately 6,000 square foot building design had to include nine individual apartments and an indoor community space for meetings and gatherings. The building was required to be designed to high energy efficiency standards (approximately equivalent to LEED Platinum) and include sustainable design elements in the categories of indoor environmental quality, water efficiency, material selection, hazard mitigation, community preservation and affordability. Also, the project required designs to be universally accessible and within Housing and Urban Development (HUD) design standards.
Advanced Energy’s North Carolina Sustainable Building Design Competition [NCSBDC] is a program to engage students in the state’s universities 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 competition is being held in conjunction with the Triangle Emerging Green Builder Natural Talent Design Competition.
For more information about the competition, please visit: http://www.advancedenergy.org/sbdc/index.html. For more information about the Department of Technology at Appalachian State University, visit www.tec.appstate.edu.
WASU helps break Guinness World Record
TJ Walker, a communications expert who oft analyzes politics for amNewYork, and co-author Jess Todtfeld broke a Guinness World Record by talking for nine solid hours and completing 112 interviews in 24 hours in promotion of their new book, “TJ Walker’s Secret to Foolproof Presentations.”
Appalachian State University’s student-run radio station, WASU, was number 81 of the 112 interviews, helping the duo break the record. Jon Wood, WASU station manager, conducted the interview.
The pair started at 6 a.m. June 1 and completed their interviews at 6 a.m. June 2. All the interviews were at least five minutes in length. The entire event was broadcast on FoxNews.com, who streamed the LIVE video feed from their Strategy Room studios in New York.
To listen to the interview on WASU, click here. For more information about the breaking of the world record, visit www.tjwalker.com. To listen to WASU, visit www.wasurocks.com.
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Appalachian freshman wins Flexography Award
Jonathan Hand of Greenville, NC, a freshman at Appalachian State University, was awarded a 2009 Excellence in Flexography Award May 3 at the Foundation of the Flexographic Technical Association’s (FFTA) 2009 Annual Forum and INFO FLEX in Orlando, Fla.
Hand, a major in Appalachian’s Thomas W. Reese Graphic Arts and Imaging Technology (GAIT) program in the Department of Technology, won a bronze award in the college division. His entry, a label called “God Loves in Many Languages,” was recognized for its complexity and clarity. The label was printed in reverse – the background is black ink with a multitude of text in various fonts and languages appearing from the paper underneath. The text also forms the image of a cross in the center of the label.
“This process is challenging in flexographic printing,” said GAIT Instructor Thomas Reeves. “Everything must line up correctly, and the right amount of pressure is necessary to maintain font clarity. Jonathan has great attention to detail and is very motivated. We are very proud of his accomplishment.”
Hand’s label was created in Reeves’ Introduction to Flexography class in the Fall of 2008.
An estimated 600 samples from around the world were submitted for review for the awards ceremony, which recognizes flexographic printing done by businesses and college and high school students. Only 135 entries were recognized.
The FTA, founded in 1958, is the leading technical society devoted exclusively to the flexographic printing industry. Since then, the FTA has grown to include every employee at more than 1,800 company locations. FTA members come from all aspects of the flexo industry, and include printers, suppliers, graphic trade shops, consumer product companies, designers, end-users, consultants and educational institutions. Together they provide a wealth of products, services and shared knowledge to the flexographic printing industry.
For more information about Appalachian’s GAIT program, visit www.tec.appstate.edu. For more information about the FTA, visit www.flexography.org.
