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Philadelphia University's M.S. in Sustainable Design Program Receives Excellence in Education Award from USGBC
March 29, 2011
Philadelphia University was one of five colleges and universities nationwide that were recognized by the USGBC for their green building education programs. The other awardees are Duke University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Iowa State University and the University of Arkansas.
Read more at NYInc.

Nason Construction Awarded Philadelphia University's Design-Build Contract
May 12, 2010
Nason Construction was recently awarded a design-build contract for renovations to Philadelphia University's Center for Sustainability, Energy Efficiency and Design (SEED).

Philadelphia University Student Green Design Build Project
The Green Design Build course at Philadelphia University was taken by the inaugural class of the Masters of Science in Sustainable Design Program in the summer of 2008. The course consisted of a sustainable design and construction project for Weavers Way farm which taught students about the entire sustainable design process from charrette through integrated design, into materials procurement, and was finalized with construction. The completed wash station now provides a useful and tangible product for Weavers Way Co-op, the community, and anyone that eats and enjoys produce from this urban farm. Students led all aspects of this remarkable green project.

"Green Design Build's" Charrette Design at the Awbury Arboretum
On June 14, 2008, graduate students from Rob Fleming's "Green Design Build" course participated in and had leadership responsibility for a design charrette at Awbury Arboretum. The charrette was to create a design scheme for a permanent wash station for Weaver's Way Coop Farm at Awbury. Rob is the Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Design Program at Philadelphia University and the lead teacher/creator of the Design/Build course. The charrette was the "design" part of a process that continued in early August, as the students were then tasked to "build" the wash station from recycled building materials, whose design was based on concepts developed at the charrette. The process was one of the most powerful examples of the hands on project based Service Learning methodology we here at Guerilla Educators have been involved with, to date. For the students, none of whom had participated in either a charrette or in a construction project of such magnitude, the program was transformative. This video shows the full sweep of the design/build process, from concept through to completion of the physical facility.
Watch the video on YouTube.