March 25, 2008

Stankus Gets Second Term on Green Building Council

Dona Stankus, AIA, registered architect and building programs manager at the North Carolina Solar Center in the College of Engineering at NC State University, has been elected to a second term as chair of the NC Triangle Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

The USGBC is a non-profit organization that envisions a healthy future through the promotion and application of sustainable strategies to the built environment. There are 70 regional chapters nationwide.

As the chair of USGBC, Stankus is responsible for recruiting new members and sponsors, speaking at various events, moving the organization towards a shared vision, and overseeing personnel and finances.

During her 2007 term, Stankus was heavily involved in helping to create a new organizing group for the Greensboro and Winston-Salem area. She helped raise funds, oversaw the first part-time employee, and spoke at numerous events, including addressing more than 300 attendees at GreenNC, an exhibit for the commercial green building industry. She also helped create an advocacy committee for the Triangle Chapter. In addition, she participated in education sessions with the City of Raleigh and the NC Sustainable Building Collaborative, which provided technical assistance during the creation of legislation that requires state buildings to be built to higher energy and water efficient standards than the building code requires. This legislation became law at the end of the 2007 session.

Stankus received a bachelor of environmental design in architecture from NC State’s College of Design. She joined the NC Solar Center staff in the spring of 2001.

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