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Who Are We

The Design Build Bourbon Blast is a collection of construction oriented Professional Organizations coming together to benefit a rotating list of construction oriented charities that either empower students entering the construction/design industry or address an issue of the built environment.  The event’s intent is to develop a networking opportunity for the construction/design industry through the creation and nurturing of relationships between all the participants; Host Organizations, Benefiting Charities, Sponsors, Attendees and Committee Members.  All of this is done through the planning, marketing, sponsoring and execution of a bourbon tasting, dinner, silent auction, live music, raffles and games.

What Have We Done

2015 Bourbon Blast

Beneficiary: Louisville Grows

Donation: $13,000

Targeted Effort: Help address Louisville KY's designation as the US city with the fastest growing Urban Heat Island Effect by sponsoring the planting and two years of follow up care for 150 trees in the Russell Neighborhood.

Event Hosts: American Institute of Architects Central Kentucky (AIA-CKC), the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) Louisville Chapter, the National Association of Women In Construction (NAWIC) Louisville Chapter, Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) Kentucky Chapter and the Kentucky US Green Building Council (Kentucky USGBC)

The Planting Event for the 150 trees will occur in the Spring of 2016

2014 Bourbon Blast

Beneficiary: University of Kentucky College of Design
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Donation: $10,000

Targeted Effort: Help with the University of Kentucky's College of Design capital campaign “Making the Center” which was a renovation of their primary building, Presence Hall, it's first floor Gallery Space, Student Development Center and Offices.

Event Hosts: American Institute of Architects Central Kentucky (AIA-CKC), the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) Louisville Chapter, the National Association of Women In Construction (NAWIC) Louisville Chapter, Society for International Interior Design Association  (IIDA) OH/KY Chapter Louisville Lexington City Center and the Kentucky US Green Building Council (Kentucky USGBC)