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On Thursday, March 8th, 2018, 55 building and architecture engineering students of the Green Futures Exchange project visited Rawabi City and the construction site of the new Al-Qattan green building.  The trip was part of the participants' field research into sustainable building techniques in Palestine.  During the trip, the students received a tour of Rawabi by an engineer working for Rawabi, Ruba Qadi who is also a recent graduate of An Najah's Civil Engineering Department.  Ruba explained how many parts of the city use recycled and local materials for construction as well as solar energy and other sustainable building techniques.


At the conclusion of the visit, Mr. Bashar Masri, the founder of Rawabi, came to welcome the project members and spent time explaining the inspiration behind creating Rawabi as well the sustainable components to the building construction. He also discussed intern and employment opportunities with the students and at the end of the visit promised to personally view presentations of the top three projects in the competition as well as allow the best model to be implemented through Rawabi Connect, an innovation and technology incubator. 

The project members then went to the construction site of the new Al-Qattan Building in Ramallah.  This green building is still under construction but the project members were allowed to enter the site and were given in depth briefings on all of the sustainable materials and techniques being implemented in the building.

The Green Futures Exchange Project includes a competition among bi-national teams (An-Najah with ASU) who are collaborating through virtual exchange tools (social media, video conferencing and virtual lectures). The winning group from An-Najah will receive the opportunity to travel to Arizona State University with An-Najah professors to meet their American cohorts of the project and learn about sustainable building projects and advancements in Arizona.

The project is part of a grant from the Aspen Institute’s Stevens Initiative which is an international effort to build global competence and career readiness for young people in the United States and the Middle East and North Africa while growing and enhancing the field of virtual exchange: online, international and collaborativ


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