Gheisari Named New Rinker School Director of Graduate Programs and Research
The promotion took effect July 1, 2024.
Gheisari Named New Rinker School Director of Graduate Programs and Research Read More »
The promotion took effect July 1, 2024.
Gheisari Named New Rinker School Director of Graduate Programs and Research Read More »
The quartet of Ryan Amsel, Andrew Pace, Sebastian Reina and Brady Schaffstein took home the grand prize of $6,000 this past weekend at the 31st Annual Witters Competition. Created in 1993 and endowed by Col. Arthur G. (BSBC ’41) and Beverly A. Witters, the University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning contest was created to offer students from each DCP discipline as well as the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering an experience to work with different disciplines before they graduated.
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Less than three weeks after University of Florida President Ben Sasse announced $2.5 million in strategic funding to advance the field of Industrialized Construction Engineering (ICE), Autodesk announced Tuesday a $1.5 million gift to the UF College of Design, Construction and Planning and UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering to establish the world’s first-ever industrialized construction program.
Autodesk Gifts DCP & HWCOE $1.5 Million For Industrialized Construction Engineering Read More »
University of Florida faculty and students will help advance the field of industrialized construction engineering with $2.5 million in strategic funding from the office of UF President Ben Sasse.Â
Each year, teams from universities and colleges around the country vie for design-build bragging rights in DBIA’s National Design-Build Student Competition. This year, those bragging rights go to the University of Florida’s (UF) Team Cypress Construction.Â
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The first thing most people think about robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the technology will replace the need for humans in the workforce. However, that is not the case in Dr. Aladdin Alwisy’s Smart Industrialized Design and Construction (IDC) Lab.
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University of Florida M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management Director Robert F. Cox, Ph.D., was inducted into the National Academy of Construction (NAC) Thursday night at a ceremony at The Westin Copley Place in Boston. The NAC honors and recognizes those individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the construction industry.
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University of Florida students from a variety of disciplines in the built environment descended upon the Stephen C. O’Connell Center Wednesday afternoon to learn more about the current trends in residential building construction. The main topics of the two-hour session, which was also attended by several prominent members of the residential industry, centered around robotic construction and sustainability in new homes.
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Arriving at the University of Florida as a newcomer to the United States, Bharath Ganesh joined the College of Design, Construction and Planning (DCP) without fully realizing the incredible opportunities it would offer him, whether through its esteemed professors and mentors, honor societies, or the intensive coursework that would help prepare him for the internship he recently concluded this summer.
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Autodesk, an industry leader in changing how the world is designed and made, signed a $300,000 gift agreement with the University of Florida this past Wednesday on campus. The gift will be evenly split between the University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning and the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.