GreenWizard’s Chief Green Officer Elected to Board of U.S. Green Building Council – South Carolina
January 26, 2012
USGBC Describes Brent Trenga as a Thought Leader In Green Building in South Carolina
CHARLESTON, SC – January 26, 2012 – GreenWizard – a cloud-based product management and project collaboration solution that simplifies building healthy, sustainable and efficient buildings – announced that its Chief Green Officer, Brent Trenga, has been elected to the board of the U.S. Green Building Council – South Carolina. Trenga joins two other new board members, Mary Gatch and Rick Huffman.
In the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) press release that announced the new board members, Trenga was characterized as a dedicated thought leader in green building in South Carolina who will provide strategic guidance for the implementation of USGBC’s mission. Brent Trenga, LEED AP, of Mt. Pleasant, SC, also currently serves as Chairman of the Education Committee for USGBC’s South Carolina chapter. The three new members join a fifteen-member board that oversees USGBC SC Chapter’s finances, governance, policies and practices, regular education and trainings, strategic planning and statewide outreach.
As GreenWizard’s Chief Green Officer, Brent Trenga has led GreenWizard in all things green as the director of research and development of new sustainable technologies and strategies for the Company. Trenga also works as a project consultant with the design and construction firms using GreenWizard. This role allows him to train the project participants, secure additional projects, and provide valuable feedback to further enhance GreenWizard’s applications. Trenga received his BA from Penn State and studied abroad at the Sedi de Roma Design Studio, in Rome, Italy. Before joining GreenWizard, he worked for Neil Stevenson Architects (Charleston, SC) for five years.
“Brent Trenga is a nationally recognized expert on LEED credit assessment and green education, so USGBC South Carolina is lucky to have him as a volunteer on its board,” said Adam Bernholz, 2011 Chair of the South Carolina Chapter and also GreenWizard’s founder and CEO.
About USGBC-SC Chapter
USGBC – South Carolina Chapter is a nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated in South Carolina, enabling an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous environment that improves the quality of life. Formed in 2004, and currently 400 members strong across the state, USGBC SC is a chapter of the United States Green Building Council, the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to significantly reduce or eliminate the negative impact of buildings on their occupants and on our environment.
About GreenWizard
Now a LEED® Automation (a.k.a App Lab™) partner, GreenWizard is the comprehensive product management software and project collaboration provider enabling the design and construction community to better manage products and project data, collaborate on projects, assess LEED design and construction credits, integrate with LEED Online, and archive projects. These tools simplify the process of building healthy, sustainable and efficient construction projects. Building owners, architects, engineers and contractors can use GreenWizard’s WORKflow® Pro solution at any phase of a building project. Firms are able to utilize GreenWizard’s interactive and dynamic tools to collaborate on product data and documentation, which is supplied and updated directly from manufacturers. The Charleston, SC-based company was founded in 2008.
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