Valoree Eikinas Named Board Member of Triangle U.S. Green Building Council

Raleigh, NC—Feb. 8, 2011— Valoree Eikinas, PE, LEED® AP, has been named to a two-year term as a board member of the Triangle Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). Eikinas will serve as Board Liaison of the chapter’s advocacy committee, whose purpose is to work with local government and community leaders to support sustainable design practices in codes, policies and laws. In this capacity, she will interact with North Carolina legislators to strengthen the 2012 North Carolina Energy Conservation Code.

Established in 2004, the NC Triangle Chapter of the USGBC is a nonprofit 501c3 membership-based organization that promotes green building in the Triangle area and Eastern North Carolina through advocacy and education.

Eikinas is a professional engineer who puts sustainability and LEED principles into action. A principal and director of building structures and land development at Mulkey Engineers and Consultants, she has been involved with the LEED process for more than three million-square-feet of new construction and facility renovations. She has also successfully led Mulkey’s green initiative, bringing her environmental stewardship to the corporate level.

With over 22 professional and community affiliations, Eikinas’s volunteer  service enables her to put her commitment to sustainability into vital community action. Senator Basnight appointed her to the State of North Carolina’s Building Commission in 2009. Eikinas is serving her second term of the Senator’s 2006 appointment to serve on the North Carolina Code Officials Qualification Board representing both Professional Engineers of North Carolina (PENC) and the American Council of Engineer of North Carolina (ACEC/NC). She serves as secretary/treasurer on the board of ACEC/NC and is active on the Paul ZiaLecture Committee at NC State University.

Eikinas received her B.S. in Architectural Engineering – Structures from The Pennsylvania State University in 1989 and her M.S. in Civil Engineering – Structures from Northeastern University in 1997.