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The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning’s undergraduate landscape architecture Implementation studio hit the streets recently to visit sites and offices throughout central Florida. In Winter Park, they met Victor Dover, Principal-In-Charge at Dover Kohl Town Planners. Dover, (also co-author of the Dover-Massengale book “Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and […]

By Mia Alfonsi On the morning of Oct. 4, as part of the University of Florida Homecoming celebration weekend, guests gathered at the M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Construction Management to welcome the newest members of the Construction Hall of Fame. DCP Dean Chimay Anumba, Rinker School Director R. Raymond Issa and University of Florida

On Tuesday, September 17, the Florida Resilient Cities (FRC) team, led by multiple DCP groups, held a community meeting in Port St. Joe, a small city on Florida’s panhandle, to kick-off a yearlong partnership studying long-term resiliency as the city and Gulf County continue to recover after 2018’s Hurricane Michael. Participants included community leaders, residents,

By Rosa Medina The College of Design, Construction and Planning is proud to announce Beth McGee, Interior Design Ph.D. student, as the recipient of the 2019 Polsky Academic Achievement Award for outstanding research dissertation. The ASID Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award recognizes undergraduate or graduate students contributions to interior design through print or digital communications.

By Mia Alfonsi The College of Design, Construction and Planning kicked off the fall semester with another successful Fall Premiere. Students gathered in the Architecture Building’s Atrium to learn more about how to get involved with DCP’s clubs and organizations. Notable staff such as Dean Chimay Anumba and Associate Deans Abdol Chini and Margaret Portillo

Alumni Profile – Jim Mitchell, BBC ’83, Construction Management Jim Mitchell is the Chief Operations Officer for the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, Fla. and has been with the Kravis Center for 28 years. As COO, Mitchell manages the operations and development of the Center’s physical facilities, construction

How do we design and provide appropriate home modifications to an increasingly diverse population with different mobility and accessibility needs? Examining a person-centered approach to addressing such needs, a multidisciplinary team, led by Dr. Sherry Ahrentzen from the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies, is developing and testing a Virtual Reality (VR) tool — named CODY,