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Create Your Educational Path in Sustainability Now to Take Advantage of American Jobs Plan

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Establishing Sustainable Roots

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Solving Sustainable Management Challenges

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Create Your Educational Path in Sustainability Now to Take Advantage of American Jobs Plan

Andrew Guest - April 20, 2021

On the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, we are focusing on upcoming job opportunities in the green economy. While it’s still too soon to pin down job specifics of President Biden’s American Jobs

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Establishing Sustainable Roots

Lori Gray - November 18, 2020

In September 2019, Jenais Zarlin was looking for a way to make a social and community impact.

Wanting to build up her practical sustainable management skills, Jenais found our Advanced

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Solving Sustainable Management Challenges

Lori Gray - September 22, 2020

“Philosophy prepared me for anything and everything. It taught me how to think; how to examine an argument; and to think of all possible implications, refutations and alternatives,” says Alana

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Carmel Gacho Never Stops Learning

Cheryl Cline - April 22, 2020

In her native Manila, Carmel Gacho worked as a Supervising Science Research Specialist and also as the Environmental Committee Chair at a national government research institute in the Philippines

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D.I.Y. Your Career

Andrew Guest - March 2, 2020

Taking an active hand in her college education was just one of the many forward-thinking moves that Courtney Bell has made in her life. While at Colorado College, Courtney knew that she very much

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Finding Solutions to the Climate Crisis Through Meaningful Job Creation

Andrew Guest - April 26, 2019

There is a crisis in America’s workforce today as more and more jobs are lost to automation and potential workers are opting out of the labor force. Add in the global climate crisis, and the

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Learning to Be Ambitious

Andrew Guest - December 21, 2018

When Sera Balenagasau enters a room, you know it. She has a kindly demeanor and her voice rolls with a gentle cadence, but Sera has a way of grabbing and keeping your attention.

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Learning the Latest in Construction Management

Andrew Guest - November 28, 2017

For the past 17 years, Leonil Carreon has been enjoying a project management construction career with a local real estate company in his native Philippines.

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Sustainable Success

Andrew Guest - August 30, 2017

You can be forgiven a feeling of optimism when you talk with Construction and Sustainability department director David Brotherton about the future. Despite dire headlines about climate change and

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Jump-Starting a Skill Set

Andrew Guest - March 15, 2017

“I've been at PG&E for about 10 years now,” says Fred Brew at the beginning of our interview.

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Building on Journeyman Status

Andrew Guest - March 3, 2017

Even when things are going well, it sometimes helps to take a moment, take stock and decide how you can take better advantage of your talents. For Gordon Ludwick, his job as a stationary engineer

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Mark Hydeman: 2016 Honored Instructor

Andrew Guest - September 28, 2016

Mark Hydeman, one of this year's Honored Instructors, has a long and distinguished career as an HVAC engineer and educator.

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Meet Your Instructor: Kelly Gearhart

Andrew Guest - September 2, 2016

Instructor Kelly Gearhart didn't follow a typical career path to become a green-building company owner, expert and educator.

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Training Students to Manage Risk

Andrew Guest - July 26, 2016

For the past five years, David Druml has shared his expertise with UC Berkeley Extension students in the Construction Enterprise Risk Management course.

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Flexing Newfound Skills

Andrew Guest - May 15, 2016

Duane Kubischta received an advanced engineering degree from UC Berkeley and quickly entered the biotech field as an instrumentation engineer.

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Giving Students the Tools to Bring BIM Into Their Projects

Andrew Guest - April 6, 2016

Kaushal Diwan is heavily invested in implementing new technology into his everyday practice.

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Gaining Knowledge to Go Green

Andrew Guest - April 4, 2016

While working in China at an environmental nonprofit, Simon Feng Ou wanted a career that would sustain his interest.

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Bringing Years of Experience to the Classroom

Cheryl Cline - March 8, 2016

For the past 30 years, Henry Tooryani has seen the construction business’ steady ebb and flow—here in the Bay Area and across the nation.

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Moving Up in the Construction Field

Andrew Guest - July 14, 2014

Despite demanding 12-hour days as a construction project engineer, Ana Lazo is determined to complete the Certificate Program in Construction Management with distinction.

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