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31st Witters Competition Focuses on Historic Pleasant Street Neighborhood

February 1, 2024

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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Autodesk Gifts DCP & HWCOE $1.5 Million For Industrialized Construction Engineering

January 23, 2024

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.

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With $2.5 Million in Strategic Funding, UF Plans to Advance the Field of Industrialized Construction Engineering

January 5, 2024

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.

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OneDCP Team Wins 2023 National Design-Build Student Competition

November 17, 2023

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.

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DCP Robots Lend a Helping Hand

October 18, 2023

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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Rinker Director Dr. Robert F. Cox Inducted into National Academy of Construction

October 13, 2023

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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Robotic Construction and Sustainability Themes of 2023 DCP Residential Summit

September 13, 2023

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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Ganesh Sharpens Virtual Construction Skills at Mader Southeast

August 31, 2023

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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DCP, UF Engineering Sign Agreement with Autodesk Inc. to Drive Student Success and Innovative Integration

April 11, 2023

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.

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DCP’s Eagle Flies High: The Story of How Two Rinker Graduates Transformed the Construction Industry

April 4, 2023

At 17 years old, a tall, skinny boy from Richmond, Virginia took the advice of his father and traveled down to the University of Florida with dreams of winning championships for UF Head Golf Coach Buster Bishop.

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