M.A., Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2011
B.A., Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2008
Areas of specialization: GIS development Programming and customization Web development
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Ph.D., University of Maryland;
MS and BS, University of Florida;
Licensed Professional Engineer, Refrigeration Contractor.
SPECIAL FIELDS: Air conditioning systems, indoor air quality and energy efficiency. EMPLOYERS: North Carolina State University; Western North Carolina Refrigeration Service; National Association of Home Builders Research Center. MEMBER: American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers.
Savannah College of Art and Design, BA
Kansas State University, MS
State University of New York at Binghamton, Ph.D.
Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Building Materials, Built Environment Resilience, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Health Sciences, Sustainable Public Policy, Sustainable Architecture and Design)
My research focuses on using Artificial Intelligence and dynamic modeling to evaluate scenarios for preventative designs that reduce risks to human health. This research includes how phenomena such as climate change, which is having a demonstrated effect on infectious conditions and disease epidemiology, impact community health infrastructure and health system resilience. This area of study’s primary purpose is to explore the potentials that predictive Systems Science and Engineering approaches have in informing reliable risk moderation and sustainable system optimization strategies for environmental planning paradigms successful in moderating outside design basis system hazards.
Bio:
Dr. Lisa Platt is the Interior Design department faculty and research representative for the University of Florida’s College of Design Construction and Planning Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER). Her work in research, student mentoring, and teaching is driven by the concept of designing and building proactively adaptive and human-centered environmental systems. Her career in healthcare design and systems improvement analysis has been to discover ways thoughtfully applied translational research can elicit practical innovation for improving human and system resilience. Her experience as a licensed Interior Designer and operations systems analyst has allowed her to collaborate with quality, health, safety, and environment management teams in high-risk industries in the U.S. and internationally. She has also had the benefit of being able to work with health system patients, rehabilitation, and long-term care resident groups around the world seeking ways to use human-centered design for improving individual and population health, safety, and wellbeing.
Dr. Platt’s current research focus is on using Artificial Intelligence and Human Factors for integrating Prevention through Design in healthcare environments. The primary purpose of this study is to explore potentials that predictive Systems Science and Engineering approaches have in informing reliable risk moderation and resilience optimization strategies for environment of care planning paradigms successful in moderating outside design basis system hazards.
Dr. Platt currently teaches the undergraduate Interior Finishes and Materials course and the DCP Doctoral Core 4 seminar focusing on assisting Ph.D. students in dissertation research conceptualization, writing, and leveraging for employment opportunities. She is also currently in the process of developing a graduate-level course for using applied quantitative methods and machine learning for design research.
Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design, a Master of Science in Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Systems Science with a focus in Health Systems Engineering.
Ph. D. in Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999
MS in Architecture Carnegie Mellon University, 1995
B. Arch, Pratt Institute, 1982
Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Building Energy, Building Materials, Built Environment Resilience, Renewable Energy, Smart Buildings/Cities Sustainable Architecture and Design, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Technology)
The spatial dimensions of work range from assessing indoor environmental quality in spaces to modeling water resources regionally to modeling the potential for ground-level ozone formation nationally. The dimensions of interest range from the health and performance of people, life cycle pollution generation and resources, and life cycle financial performance, sometimes all at once, based on a foundation of ethics. Research indicates that of the range of environmental impacts we generally consider in sustainability and resilience, biodiversity has been impacted to the greatest extent, and in my opinion, biodiversity impact is an under-appreciated environmental impact of the built environment.
Special Fields Green Building, Sustainable Development, Life Cycle Assessment in the Construction Process Employers University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado, Brooklyn Design and Fabrication AC3D Architectural Firm Publications More than 80 publications in the area of life cycle assessment and optimization, green building construction, and environmental impact assessment of buildings.
Ph.D., Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, 2011
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Old Dominion University, 1995
M.B.A., New Hampshire College, 1992
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Central Florida, 1989
Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Sustainable Construction)
Evaluation of construction projects for sustainable principles. Use of Building Rating systems to evaluate construction projects. Performing Life Cycle Cost Analysis for decision making.
Bio:
Mark Russell joined the faculty of the ME Rinker Sr. School of Construction Management in August 2016. As a scholar, engineer, and contractor, Dr. Russell investigates sustainable construction techniques and building rating systems. His research focuses on effective ways to reduce building energy, water, and resources while promoting a healthy indoor environment.
After earning his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Central Florida, Mark worked with the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps in a variety of construction related positions. After earning an M.B.A. at New Hampshire College and a master’s degree in civil/Environmental Engineering from Old Dominion University, Mark retired from the U.S. Navy. Next, he took a position with URS in Frankfort, Germany where he was responsible for design and construction projects on military bases throughout Europe. Mark later earned his Ph.D. in Design, Construction, & Planning from the University of Florida.
Dr. Russell was the AGC Endowed Chair of Construction Management at the University of New Mexico from 2013 – 2016 and has taught courses in sustainability, civil engineering, and construction management for UF, UNM, and the University of Indonesia. Mark Russell is also a founding partner of the consulting firm Wise Built, LLC, a building sustainability consulting firm that has worked on over 200 building projects throughout the US and in Europe.
Ph.D., (Structural Engineering) Texas Tech University, 1990;
MSCE (Structures), Kurukshetra, 1980;
B.E. (Civil) Roorkee, India,1975;
Registered Professional Engineer; Registered Building Inspector
SPECIAL FIELDS:
Structures (Mechanics, Steel, Concrete, and Formwork); Soil and Foundations; Wind Resistant Design; Radon Resistant Construction; Building Inspection.
EMPLOYERS:
Terra Engineers, Lubbock Texas; Texas Tech University; Public Works Department, Command Area Development Authority, India.
MEMBER:
American Society of Civil Engineers; Southern Building Code Congress International; American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists; American Society of Civil Engineers; Roof Consultants Institute.
University of Michigan
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Building Energy, Building Materials, Built Environment Resilience, Renewable Energy, Smart Buildings/Cities, Sustainable Architecture and Design, Sustainable Construction, Sustainable Technology)
I am interested in improving the energy as well as the occupant- related health performance of the built environment through advancements in building envelopes
Bio:
Dr. Ryan Sharston is an architect and a civil and environmental engineer. For nearly two decades, he has taught, researched and practiced sustainable design and construction and environmental technologies in various academic and industrial settings.
His research focuses on computational building modeling, building performance evaluation, indoor environmental quality and occupants’ health and well-being. He has taught architectural design studios and building and environmental technologies at the University of Michigan and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
In his professional practice, he has served as lead engineer and construction manager for numerous projects, with a particular focus on technologically advanced and integrated designs and constructions.
Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Built Environment Resilience, Sustainable Architecture and Design)
My work and teaching focuses on the use and nature of public space in the contemporary city. This impacts/intersects with sustainability by identifying and designing the organization of urban spaces – their use and their resiliency is critical to social structures, community equity and engagement, as well as energy use (i.e. transportation, passive systems, distances between points of activity).
Bio:
Peter Sprowls is a lecturer at the University of Florida School of Architecture and CityLab-Orlando as well as a founding principal of House Champagne – an architectural design and research firm focusing on public space in urban and sub-urban contexts. He was educated at the University of Florida and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and
is pursuing his professional licensure as an architect.
Sprowls teaches design, history and theory. Through this and his professional work, he explores the contemporary boundary between the natural and the built worlds; the anterior and posterior spaces of modern human life. This exploration can describe new forms of public space in developer-driven markets and how our vast, built landscape can be measured again by nature. Leading to this interest in modern public space is a history of research, investigating potential forms of public space that could evolve with the growth of autonomous vehicle technology and future forms of transportation. Sprowls has worked with MIT Media Lab in the City Sciences group on the CityCar, studying the behavior of autonomous vehicles in urban spaces and has used this research to propose a series of potential public spaces mixing modes of transportation with technology of the near future.
He has worked within the profession on institutional, multi-family housing and commercial spaces at NADAAA, Preston Scott Cohen, and Merge Architects in Boston, MA. His practice, House Champagne, is completing a series of residential projects focused on natural phenomena, specifically the volumetric quality of light in humid environments.
Ph.D. Oklahoma State University
M.S. Oklahoma State University
B.S. Kon-Kuk University
Areas of Focus:
Sustainability (Building Energy, Sustainable Architecture and Design)
The sustainability dimensions of my work are related to sustainability education and lifestyle practices.
Bio:
Nam-Kyu Park is an Associate Professor in the Department of Interior Design. She is a LEED accredited professional and NCIDQ certified interior designer. Also, she possesses Evidence-based Design accreditation (EDAC), and a LC-Lighting Certificate. She teaches a broad range of coursework at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, from design studios focused on retail, hospitality, health care and office environments, to interior lighting design, building systems, interior design detailing, and graduate research seminars. Her research focuses on optimizing well-being, health, and human behavior through the design of the built environment. Theories of environment-behavior and social psychology thread together in her research program using a mixed methods research design. Her principle areas of research address the impact of lighting in interior environments and environmental design for special needs populations. She also examines cultural dimensions of the built environment defining environmental and social sustainability. The scholarship of Dr. Park and her students has been well presented internationally and nationally and has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals. Currently she is serving as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Interior Design.
Master of Science in Architecture, Columbia University, 1990
Master of Construction Engineering, Madrid Polytechnic School, 1983
M.Arch., Columbia University, 1980
Research Interests My research focuses in the evolution of modern architecture in the decade after the Second World War. Examples of projects completed and under development are : Completed 1. The Houses of El Pedregal, 1947-1968, book in print, appears July 2005 Co-authored: Alejandro Aptilon Published by Gustavo Gili Editors, Barcelona , Spain In print, ISBN pending 2. Craig Ellwood, Houses, Published December 2004 Sole Author Published by Gustavo Gili Editors, Barcelona ISBN 84-252-2010-6, Bilingual English-Spanish Edition. 3. “Craig Ellwood: In the Spirit of the Time”, Published, February 2003 Sole Author Published by Gustavo Gili Editors, Barcelona ISBN 84-252-1806-3, English Edition: ISBN 84-252-1803-9, Spanish Edition Under development 1. Cuban baseball stadiums 1962-1968, upcoming report in collaboration with graduate student Quilian Riaño 2. Brazilian 1950’s modernism, archival research, seminar preparation 3. Cuban 1950’s modernism, field and bibliographical research, seminar preparation Books on other research interests are: “Genetic Architectures”, Published August 2003 Co-authored: Dennis Dollens, Alberto Estevez, Alfons Puigarnau, Ignasi Perez Arnal Published by Universitat International de Barcelona and Sites Books, New York . ISBN: 0-930829-51-4, bilingual English-Spanish Edition. “F.C.I. Alvaro Siza”, chapter title: “Traveling to Santiago ” Book chapter published in May 2002 Published by Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and Labirinto Editors, Santiago , ISBN 84-932280-I-X, bilingual English/Spanish
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