SBE Faculty
Administrative Faculty
Lisa Sundahl-Platt | Ph.D.
SBE Program Director & Assistant Professor
Sustainability & the Built Environment | Interior Design | Florida Institute of Built Environment Resilience (FIBER)
College of Design, Construction, & Planning
Teaching Faculty
For more information on specific courses, please visit the UF undergraduate catalog, graduate catalog, course search, or the SBE program details.
Bahar Armaghani
Instructional Associate Professor | LEED Fellow
Sustainability & the Built Environment | Construction Management
College of Design, Construction, & Planning
Courses taught include:
- ARC 6913 Greening New Construction (Past)
- DCP 3210 Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment (Spring)
- DCP 4214/6231C Green Building Strategies / LEED Lab (Fall &/or Spring)
- DCP 4215 Sustainability Leadership (Past)
- DCP 4216/6217C WELL Building Strategies / WELL Lab (Fall &/or Spring)
- DCP 4290 SBE Capstone (Fall, Spring, &/or Summer)
- DCP 4942 Field Experience in SBE (Fall, Spring, &/or Summer)
Patricia Kio | Ph.D.
SBE Graduate Program Coordinator & Assistant Professor
Sustainability & the Built Environment | Architecture
College of Design, Construction, & Planning
Courses taught include:
- DCP 3200 Methods of Inquiry in SBE (Fall)
- DCP 3210 Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment (Past)
- DCP 4224/6931 Circular Economy (Fall)
- DCP 4226/6227 Lifecycle Assessment for Sustainable Buildings (Spring)
- DCP 4290 SBE Capstone (Fall, Spring, &/or Summer)
- DCP 4930/6221 Economics of Sustainability (Spring)
- DCP 6230 Integrated Sustainable Development Practicum (Summer)
Hal S. Knowles, III | Ph.D.
SBE Undergraduate Program Coordinator & Instructional Associate Professor
Sustainability & the Built Environment | Urban & Regional Planning
College of Design, Construction, & Planning
Courses taught include:
- DCP 1241 Introduction to SBE: Managing Wicked Problems in Space & Time (Fall &/or Spring)
- DCP 3200 Methods of Inquiry in SBE (Fall &/or Spring)
- DCP 3210 Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment (Spring &/or Summer)
- DCP 3220 Social & Cultural SBE (Fall &/or Summer)
- DCP 4244/6931 Community Resilience: Assessment, Planning, & Action in the Game of Life (Fall or Spring)
- DCP 4290 Capstone Project in SBE(Fall, Spring, &/or Summer)
- DCP 4941 Interdisciplinary Practicum (Past)
- DCP 4942 Field Experience in SBE (Fall, Spring, &/or Summer)
- DCP 4945 Geodesign Practicum (Past)
- EVR 2001 Introduction to Environmental Science (Past)
- URP 4000 Preview of Urban & Regional Planning (Past)
Past Directors
The following faculty have served as Program Director and Advisory Board Director over the history of SBE.
Bahar Armaghani
SBE Director
07/2018 – 12/2024
Vandana Baweja
Interim SBE Director
01/2025 – 04/2025
Peggy Carr (Retired)
SBE Director
07/2008 – 06/2018
Ravi Srinivasan
Interim SBE Director
05/2025 – 06/2026
Affiliate Faculty
Faculty from across the College of Design, Construction and Planning (DCP) are involved with varying aspects of sustainability and the built environment in their teaching, research, and/or service. Listed below are some of DCP’s most prominent contributors to our shared SBE mission.
DCP | Architecture
DCP | M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management
Abdol Chini (Retired)
DCP Associate Dean & Professor Emeritus
R. Raymond Issa
Distinguished Professor
Robert J. Ries
Associate Professor
Mark Russell
Instructional Assistant Professor
DCP | GeoPlan Center
DCP | Interior Design
DCP | Landscape Architecture
DCP | Urban and Regional Planning
Laura Dedenbach
URP Chair & Instructional Associate Professor
Kathryn Frank
Associate Professor
Christopher Silver (Retired)
Professor Emeritus
Ruth Steiner
Professor