Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment

Rendering of the student design

Student team places second in national Race to Zero Competition
May 5, 2017

Team Appalachian [In]sight, a group of seven graduate and undergraduate students representing Appalachian State University’s Department of Sustainab...

Dr. Brian Raichle

Raichle named chair of the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment
Apr 27, 2017

Dr. Brian Raichle has been named chair of the Appalachian State University Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment after servin...

2016-17 Innovation Scholars

Fine and Applied Arts faculty awarded Innovation Scholars funding
Apr 20, 2017

Three of the five collaborative projects funded by the Chancellor's first Innovation Scholars program are led by Fine and Applied Arts faculty. Read m...

NRLP General Manager Ed Miller

UNC GA grant supports Appalachian, New River Light and Power and energy research across UNC system
Mar 30, 2017

Over the past decade, Appalachian State University has amassed one of the largest and the most diverse portfolio of renewable energy facilities in the...

Lee Ball and Jeff Biggers

Find Your SustainAbility with Lee Ball and Jeff Biggers
Mar 14, 2017

Listen in as noted author Jeff Biggers speaks with Appalachian's Director of Sustainability Lee Ball about regenerative cities and sustainability in A...

Dr. Lee Ball

Ball named director of sustainability at Appalachian
Dec 12, 2016

Following a national search, Dr. Lee F. Ball Jr. has been named director of sustainability at Appalachian State University. Ball has held the position...

Wind turbine at Allegheny High School

Appalachian State University leads wind energy push in North Carolina
Nov 29, 2016

By Madalene SmithBrent Summerville, practitioner-in-residence in the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment, has recently secu...

Jeff Ramsdell

UNC System awards grants for multi-campus research project
Nov 17, 2016

Jeff Ramsdell, professor of sustainable technology and the built environment and director of the Appalachian Energy Center, will lead a $48,307 p...

Solar car on the track

Racing the Sun [Appalachian Magazine]
Aug 17, 2016

An Appalachian team seeks to change the future of transportation with a solar race car....

Apperion crosses the finish line

ASU Solar Vehicle Team finishes sixth in Solar Challenge [Watauga Democrat]
Aug 8, 2016

Appalachian State University’s Solar Vehicle Team finished the 1,975-mile American Solar Challenge on Aug. 6, earning sixth place overall....