Rinker School of Construction Management graduate Travis Kolbjornsen, BSBC 2007, shares his experiences working for Disney as well as his fond memories of being a DCP student. Can you tell us about your career? After graduating UF BCN, I started my career as a Project Engineer with James A. Cummings, Inc., a Tutor Perini Company […]
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Jarrell Smith graduated from DCP’s Urban and Regional Planning Program this spring. He has been in the spotlight recently as he was selected for the prestigious Eno Foundation Award and was named the grand prize winner of the Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition. DCP Communications recently spoke with Smith to ask him questions about
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On June 14-16, the DCP Communications Team, the Development Team and the Rinker School’s Dr. Raymond Issa traveled to South Florida to meet and film DCP alumni and attend the South Florida Rinker Alumni Fishing Tournament. The interviews with Rinker alums from the Southern family, landscape architecture alum Mike Kroll and urban and regional planning
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By Alisson Clark, UF News When Masoud Gheisari envisions the construction site of tomorrow, he pictures squadrons of drones — not replacing workers, but keeping them safe. On a typical construction project, new dangers arise throughout the day as equipment, people and materials move around the site. Instead of safety managers physically going to each
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Jarrell Smith, a University of Florida urban and regional planning student who recently graduated, won the Transportation Planning Division (TPD) Student Paper Competition. He actually received the call on the day he graduated from UF. “I was sitting down eating lunch the day of my graduation when I got the call that I had won
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The AIA Conference on Architecture 2017 in Orlando, held April 27-29, was a huge success. UF DCP’s exhibit of student work was placed in a high traffic area to showcase their skills and doctoral student Lesa Lorusso presented her multi-sensory environments dementia research. Also, thank you to the UF Alumni Association and executive director Tim
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The 19th Rinker International Symposium was held on May 4-5 at the Harn Museum of Art. The topic was State-of-the-Art of Modular Construction. The organizers of the event were DCP, Rinker School of Construction Management, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment and the Powell Center for Construction & Environment. The reason modular construction was
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Nicole Plunkett, BLAE 2010, recently won not one but two awards for her work. She was named the first recipient of the Exceptional Emerging Professional Award by the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). She also was selected for the inaugural year of the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) Fellowship for Innovation
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Debra Lupton, BDES 1977, MAARC 1979, was elected to this year’s class of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows. She was honored at the recent AIA Conference on Architecture 2017 in Orlando. DCP Alum and member of the AIA College of Fellows Class of 1993 John Ehrig, BARCH 1973, nominated Lupton for
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Landscape architecture undergraduate student Nathania Martinez recently was named a 2017 National Olmsted Scholar Finalist by the Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF). The National Olmsted Scholars Program is the premier national award and recognition program for landscape architecture students. Martinez was named one of six national finalists (three graduate and three undergraduate) from amongst a group of 50
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