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Rinker Team Places Second Nationally in ABC Construction Management Competition

A team of four students from the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management finished second nationally in the annual Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Student Construction Management Competition. The contest took place at the 2022 ABC Convention in San Antonio, Texas, March 15-17, and featured 14 of the top construction management programs in the country.

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Rinker School Hosts Second Annual Residential Building Summit

University of Florida graduates and students from the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management gathered inside the Florida Room of the Stephen C. O’Connell Center March 2, 2022, for the second annual Residential Building Summit. Surrounded by more than a dozen residential building companies, Rinker students networked with industry professionals while learning more about the residential construction industry.

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The Future Is Now

On a hot, muggy morning in July 2020, University of Florida President Kent Fuchs announced an astonishing $70 million public-private partnership between UF and NVIDIA, thus making artificial intelligence (AI) the centerpiece of a major, long-term initiative combining world-class research infrastructure, cutting-edge analysis and a revolutionary approach to curriculum. As a direct result, UF College of Design, Construction and Planning faculty and students will soon have unprecedented access to AI training, the world’s fastest AI supercomputer in higher education and more.

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Knickrehm Continues Rinker Legacy at Barr & Barr

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

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

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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