Washington, DC – Professor Stephen Fuller spoke during the WBC Board of Governors Breakfast held on April 23, 2015 at the Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, MD.
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News At A Glance
News At A Glance
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Washington, DC – The WBC Joint Utility Seminar was held on April 9, 2015 at the Washington Gas office in Springfield, VA.
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Washington, DC – Starting Monday, March 30th our new office will be located at:
1100 VERMONT AVENUE, NW
SUITE 700
WASHINGTON, DC 20005
Phone and fax will remain the same.
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WBC Data Center Overview Program was held on March 3, 2015 at the Sheraton Premiere Hotel in Tysons Corner, VA.
The Northern Virginia Data Center sector is one of the top five markets in the U.S. along with New York / New Jersey, San Francisco, Dallas and Los Angeles. Program panelists discussed what makes Loudoun County such a consistent mecca for Data Center growth and what type of clients and end users want to be here. The panel also provided an overview of the different types of Data Centers, including Colocation, Enterprise and mixed use, along with the different type of construction aspects that go into building one of the many world-class Data Centers in our region.
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Boost visibility of your sustainable site and support the USGBC-NCR chapter by applying to be a featured stop on one of the Greenbuild 2015 tours!
On November 18-20, 2015, the USGBC-NCR and Washington, DC will host the 2015 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated solely to green building. This event is expected to bring over 30,000 sustainability leaders and advocates to our region. (Learn more here)
To highlight the National Capital Region’s influential leadership in sustainability, the Greenbuild Host Committee is soliciting applications for sustainable projects and efforts in the USGBC-NCR region to become a part of many full and half day tours.
Applications are welcome from any and all sustainable efforts which may be visited in the USGBC-NCR area. It is important to note that tour sites are not required to be a building, or to be LEED certified.
Deadlines:
Questions submitted by – February 2, 2015. – Submit questions by email to toursrfp@usgbcncr.org. Answers to questions will be provided no later than the week of February 9th on the USGBC-NCR Greenbuild 2015 Tours webpage.
Applications – March 4, 2015
Application Form Links
Intent to Apply – Note: completion of this form is not required, and does not constitute a tour application, but does help us to gauge interest and the potential volume of submissions.
Greenbuild 2015 Tours Application
Washington, DC – It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2015 WBC Craftsmanship Awards winners!
On March 20, we will be recognizing the craftmen who have shown their work to be truly outstanding among the 286 nominations received for this honored award.
Please visit the winners page for a complete list.
Sean Frazier
2015 WBC Craftsmanship Awards Chairman
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Washington, DC – WBC members and friends were treated to a first-class Holiday Party evening at picturesque Congressional Country Club on Tuesday December 9. With a beautiful dusting of snow on the fairways, combined with unusually favorable driving conditions, the near capacity 
crowd surrounded themselves with great industry friends and colleagues.
Thank you to our sponsors who helped set an all time sponsorship record for this event. We collected a new record number – 749 of children’s books for Turning the Page.
PHOTOS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON FLICKR – just click on the icon below.
Holiday Party Sponsors
A&A Transfer, Inc. – American Institute of Steel Construction – Balfour Beattty Construction – Black & Veatch – BRG-Berkeley Research Group, LLC – Chesapeake Mission Critical – CHUTES International – Commercial Hardware of MD – Cummins Power Systems – Dynalectric Company – Froehling & Robertson – GEI Consultants – Hensel Phelps – HSU Builders – Insurance Associates, Inc. – The JBG Companies – KANE Construction, Inc. – Miscellaneous Metals, Inc. – Navigant Consulting, Inc. – Peckar & Abramson – PEPCO – Performance Contracting, Inc. – Pierce Associates – Power Solutions, LLC – Precision Wall Tech, Inc. – Pritchett Controls, Inc. – Pro-Air, Inc. – rand* construction corporation – RM Thornton Mechanical – Ruppert Landscape – Rutherfoord – Scaffold Resource – SIGAL Construction Corporation – Telligent Masonry, LLC – Thompson Hine, LLP – Tishman Construction – TWC Contracting – Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, – WCS Construction, LLC – The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company – Willis of Maryland, Inc.
The WBC Community Services Committee has scheduled a series of 2-hour shifts to help Food & Friends.
We are looking for volunteers (limit to 10 volunteers per month) to help on the following dates in 2015:
January 17 (no space available)
February 21 (no space available)
April 18 (no space available)
May 16 (no space available)
June 21 (no space available)
July 18
August 15
September 19
October 17
November 21
December 19
Note: Registration for July – December opens in May.
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