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NCSU Renewable Energy Society services
Green Building Verification Assistance
The Solar Center is the administrator of the NC HealthyBuilt Homes (HBH) Program, the State of North Carolina’s residential green building program established in 2003. HBH provides a certificate for homes meeting `green home guidelines` built by residential builders who practice sustainable, high performance building strategies making the home a comfortable, healthy and affordable place that reduces energy and water usage, promotes renewable energy use and helps protect the land where the home is built. The program is designed to be achievable at reasonable cost by affordable housing programs.
Facilities Engineering Management Diploma Series
Today’s health, education, governmental, and other facilities are complex, dynamic, and high tech, requiring facilities to be maintained in a manner that maximizes the facility’s full potential, while minimizing operation costs. Well trained, professional facility maintenance management personnel are needed to accomplish this. The Facilities Engineering Management Diploma will provide you with an excellent means of credentialing and will demonstrate that you have been exposed to and have gained a grasp of essential skills and knowledge. While not a degree or a specific certification of your qualifications, earning the diploma represents solid evidence of your successful completion of the course requirements and illustrates your dedication to becoming more knowledgeable in your field and valuable to your organization.
Green Building Diploma Series
The Green Building Diploma Series (GBDS) is tailored specifically for building professionals. The program provides the necessary skills and information to help architects, engineers, general contractors, and others in the building profession get involved with the rapidly growing market for high-performance and sustainable buildings in both the commercial and residential sectors.
Green Building Custom And Packaged Workshops
The Building Team at the Solar Center provides packaged and custom workshops for building professionals. The packaged workshops provide AIA and RESNET continuing education credit for general contractors, realtors, architects, engineers and energy raters and are focused on residential buildings.
Commercial Or Industrial Site Assessment
The North Carolina Solar Center offers assessments of potential renewable energy applications for commercial and industrial sites. Often conducted in conjunction with surveys to identify savings in energy, productivity, and waste by the NCSU Industrial Assessment Center and the IES Energy Management Program, the Solar Center’s assessments focus on practical ways companies can incorporate renewable energy. Some of the renewable energy technologies that may be recommended include: solar wall for preheating intake air, solar thermal process hot water, photovoltaic electric generation, daylighting.
Clean Transportation Fleet Assessments
Alternative fuels and advanced transportation technologies are the focus of the Clean Transportation Program at NC State University’s NC Solar Center. The Center can assist local government in evaluating options and technologies relating to electric vehicles, hybrids and plug-in hybrids, biodiesel, ethanol, natural gas, propane, and other advanced transportation technologies such as diesel retrofits and idle reduction technologies. Also included in fleet assesments are best practices policies and costs, emissions and petroleum displacement benefits. Collaborating with government, non-profits and businesses, the Clean Transportation team strives to improve air quality and energy security by diversifying fuel supplies and promoting economic development that utilizes local resources and cleaner technologies.
