| A-B Tech Construction Science and its Construction Management Technologies, Carpentry and Cabinetry departments hit the news often, with coverage for our sustainability efforts. Check this section periodically for new media articles covering our program and our green building workshops and projects. |
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Students for a Sustainable Campus Active at A-B Tech |
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This past year Heath Moody, Carpentry and Construction Management instructor, began mentoring a group of students who are focused on implementing sustainable-based projects on A-B Tech campuses.
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Students Build Bathroom Cabinets for Habitat Homes |
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Students in Mike McCracken's Cabinetry/Millworking class were able to get hands-on experience and help a good cause this semester by building cabinets to be installed in a Habitat for Humanity house.
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 Classes at A-B Tech are putting sustainability into the curriculum and the community through various projects and classroom exercises on and off campus.
The Carpentry program teaches students a variety of sustainable building methods, from advanced framing techniques, which use less wood and more insulation for more energy efficient structures, to natural building techniques which utilize local, low-energy embodied materials such as straw, mud, and even waste products like used tires to construct buildings with less environmental impact.
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Courtesy of the Asheville Citizen-Times
Editor's note: this article was originally published on Monday, March 26, 2007.
The Report Card issues grades A through F, and incomplete where necessary, to a variety of news items in this space. Got an idea that makes the grade? Send it to
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A -To A-B Tech's Construction Management Technology department and its initiative for "green'' building. Students are working on a 1,250-square-foot home that will meet the energy-saving standards of a NC Healthy Built Home at an affordable price. Along the way, they're learning the skills that will give them a leg up in the burgeoning field of green building. Matt Siegel of the WNC Green Council says 46 certified NC Healthy Built homes are completed and more than 350 are in progress. For more information or to register with the NC HealthyBuilt Homes Program contact: Maggie Leslie, WNC Green Building Council, at 254-1995 or
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CANDLER – Editor's note: this article was originally published on Sunday, November 26, 2006.
Courtesy of the Asheville Citizen-Times
With the help of college students studying construction and Neighborhood Housing Services of Asheville, a local family will be able to spend the holidays next year in a new home.
Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College students are working to build an approximately 1,200-square-foot modular home to be sold to Neighborhood Housing Services for placement in West Asheville and purchase by a qualified buyer of low to moderate income. The house should be completed before summer.
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Courtesy of Asheville Citizen Times
ENKA – Editor's note: this article was originally published on Sunday, March 18, 2007.
Ken Czarnomski and his crew of student workers may be building the future inside an old warehouse at the former BASF plant.
In a few months, the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College students will literally roll out their creation, a 1,250-square-foot home in three separate parts that meets the demanding energy-saving standards of a N.C. HealthyBuilt Home and the pocketbook of a working family in Buncombe County.
"It's like it's on roller skates," said Czarnomski, chairman of A-B Tech's Construction Management Technology department.
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SHILOH – Editor's note: this article was originally published on Saturday, May 17, 2008.
Courtesy of the Citizen-Times
Community hopes pavilion will offer kids positive alternatives
Frieda Nash believes the children in this troubled community need alternatives to the gangs that are gaining a foothold here, and she decided to do something about it.
"I didn't know a thing about writing grants," she said. "But I wrote one, and I got it."
That grant, from the City of Asheville, paid for the materials to build a pavilion at the community garden on Hampton Street, across from the community center. Students from Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College provided the labor, and the group Bountiful Cities also provided help.
"We're trying to get children involved," said Norma Baynes, another association member. "We're trying to get all ages involved — grandmothers, mothers, aunts and uncles."
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