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IDEAS
The Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability Center

Welcome to the IDEAS Center. We are a UNC Charlotte Research Center focused on accelerating change. Specifically, we seek to hasten the shift from unsustainable infrastructure, housing, and technology design to practices more attuned to the challenges of the 21st century.

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Our Mission
The Center's mission is to contribute to framing the challenges, providing leadership, and creating the solutions that will accelerate the technical and social shifts needed to make our built environment more sustainable.
 
IDEAS Fact Sheet

The IDEAS Center was created to focus university expertise on the challenge of creating and advancing a more sustainable built environment. We believe decision-makers seeking an alternative to “business as usual” need leadership and support from the academic community. Together we need to create, distill, translate, and disseminate technology and guidance documents that will rapidly transform and advance sustainable infrastructure, materials, building and site design innovations and practices.

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Spotlight on Faculty

Click here to see highlights of dedicated faculty members who are helping to contribute to the success of our mission.

Current Spotlight:  Brett Tempest
 

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Upcoming Events
Latest News
Public Invited to Day of Solar Activities

Central Carolina Community College (CCCC) is hosting a day of solar activities and workshops. The event is collaboration between CCCC and the N.C. Solar Center at N.C. State University, through a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Instructor Training Network program. Attendees may come for all or just one of the many talks occurring that day.

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Waste to Energy Beats Landfills

Turning trash into electricity is a better bet for the environment and local government budgets than burying it in landfills, said experts who convened at UNC Charlotte last week.


Mr. Hans Kordik Visits UNC Charlotte

UNC Charlotte and the IDEAS Center are pleased to have hosted a presentation by Mr. Hans Kordik, Austrian Counselor of Agriculture and the Environment, from the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C. 

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White House Environmental Adviser Meets with Faculty, Students

President Obama’s top environmental adviser visited UNC Charlotte Friday to hear briefings on environmental, energy and sustainability research and for a roundtable discussion with faculty and students.

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IDEAS Newsletter

The IDEAS Center is pleased to announce its first newsletter release. 


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