The Dragon Group, LLC, led by husband-and-wife team Randall and Yvonne Dragon, specializes in green building consulting and real estate development. They put their skills and passions to great use by joining the International Well Building Institute (IWBI) COVID-19 Task Force. The Dragon Group is working to build equitable and healthy communities one building at […]
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Clara Martucci is a fourth-year architecture student who is originally from Argentina but now lives in Orlando during the times she’s not in Gainesville for school. She is a member of the DCP Ambassadors and through that association connected with the person who would lead to her current internship. While volunteering at a DCP Ambassadors
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Safia Boustique is the current president of the DCP Ambassadors. She has also started a brand new internship during COVID-19 and it’s definitely not your typical experience at an internship.
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By Rosa Medina Lisa Platt is an assistant professor in the Department of Interior Design and a member of the Florida Institute of Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) faculty. She is the representative of interior design in FIBER and also the FIBER researcher focusing on healthcare. Her current research deals with infection prevention through resilience design.
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The Million Cool Roofs Challenge is a $2 million global competition to rapidly scale up the deployment of highly solar-reflective “cool” roofs in developing countries suffering heat stress and lacking widespread access to cooling services.
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In March, the Center for Hydro-generated Urbanism (CHU) at the University of Florida School of Architecture, together with the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR), held the Puerto Rico Re_Start 3 E: Under Emergency as a virtual platform that gathered the participation of over 80 students, stakeholders, agencies, professionals, consultants, architects, researchers and the UNESCO
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With the announcement that the University of Florida would shift all classes online for the remainder of the spring semester due to COVID-19, our faculty and students had to make a quick transition from studio learning to a new method of schoolwork. We put a call out to our faculty to hear, in their own
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Architecture professor Charlie Hailey was named the 2020 SEC Faculty Achievement Award Winner for the University of Florida. He is now UF’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award, which will be announced in late April. Previously, Hailey was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. To read more from the SEC about Hailey, click
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By Mia Alfonsi The M.E. Rinker School of Construction Management’s Professional Master of Construction Management (pMCM) enables students to attain something greater. Introduced in the fall of 2019, Rinker’s pMCM program provides students the background and skills needed to propel through their careers and help their employers reach their growth goals. Designed with the corporate
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By Chelsea Mistretta As a part of the annual Edward D. Stone, Jr. Lecture Series, Marc Treib, an Architecture Emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a historian and critic of landscape and architecture, spoke about the famous sculptor, Isamu Noguchi. Treib, who received his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the
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