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Knickrehm Continues Rinker Legacy at Barr & Barr

July 23, 2021

Since 1927, Barr & Barr has built a reputation as one of the nation’s premiere construction managers thanks to a consistent pipeline of graduates from the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management. Their newest Gator employee is Jeremy Knickrehm, who currently serves as a project management intern in Tampa. The Spring 2023 graduate has been blown away with many things since arriving at the internship, first of which was the warm welcome he received from those that have already created a Rinker legacy.

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Madubuike Pulling Double Duty with Two Summer Internships

July 16, 2021

Scheduled to graduate next summer with a degree in construction management, Obinna Madubuike is one of the hardest-working students in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management. After completing his first internship of the summer this past month for the facilities department at UF Health Shands, the Ph.D. candidate is currently spending the next two months as a student intern in project management at Stellar in Jacksonville.

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Beauchamp Gaining Experience at Robins & Morton

June 22, 2021

Majoring in construction management and scheduled to graduate in December 2022, Isabella Beauchamp is spending her summer as an intern with Robins & Morton working on Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Issa Named Vice President of UPADI North American Region

June 9, 2021

University of Florida M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management Distinguished Professor Raymond Issa was recently elected vice president of the Pan American Federation of Engineers (UPADI), the organization announced recently. Issa is also the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) member representing the United States.

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DCP Continues to Shine in Gator100

April 23, 2021

For the third-consecutive year, the University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning had more than 20 alumni-owned companies on the Gator100, the UF Alumni Association announced Friday.

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Gheisari Receives 2021 ASC International Outstanding Researcher Award

April 20, 2021

M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management Assistant Professor Masoud Gheisari was presented with the 2021 Associated Schools of Construction International Outstanding Researcher Award earlier this month at the annual ASC International Conference. The award, given annually to a research faculty member at a four-year ASC member school, recognizes the faculty member’s quality of research, contribution to the dissemination of scholarly work within the ASC community and service to the ASC.

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Two DCP Graduates Named University of Florida Outstanding Young Alumni

April 13, 2021

University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning alumni Tim Hoeft (BDES ’04, MARCH ’06) and Paul Jones (BSBC ’05) were two of a select group of Gator graduates named to this year’s prestigious “40 Gators Under 40.”

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Shimberg Center Teams with JPMorgan Chase To Create Florida Flood Hazard App

March 29, 2021

Thanks to the University of Florida Shimberg Center for Housing Studies in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management and with support from JPMorgan Chase, Floridians have a new statewide web-based mapping app that identifies housing exposed to flood hazards due to storm events and sea level rise.

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More Than an Athlete: Ricks Proud to Stand Out as Black Rinker Student

February 25, 2021

Draping proudly from the ceiling, the Liberian flag is the first thing you notice in the home of M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of. Construction Management senior Isaac Ricks. Beneath his home country’s colors of red, white and blue on the walls hang framed quotes from famous Civil Rights leaders Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Maya Angelou.

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Congratulations, Matt Webster!

August 13, 2019

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