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Upcoming events
Classes end
April 25
Reading days (no classes)
April 26-27
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DCP Commencement
May 5 at 3 p.m.
Phillips Center for Performing Arts
> For more info
Florida Trust's 34th Annual Preservation
Conference
May 17-19
Gainesville
> For more info
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Superior Accomplishment Awards
Evelyn Cairns from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning was awarded the Division III Superior Accomplishment Award during a ceremony on March 23 in the President's Room of Emerson Alumni Hall.
In addition, Hoeun Bin, a custodian for the Rinker School of Building Construction, won a Superior Accomplishment Award for her services to the school.
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UF president talks SBE, Rinker Hall
In his annual state of sustainability address on April 6, President Bernie Machen mentioned both DCP's Sustainability and the Built Environment program and Rinker Hall, home of the Rinker School of Building Construction.
> Read the speech
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Witters Competition focuses
on sustainable housing
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The first-place team of the 2012 Witters Competition included: Brittany Ross (URP), Jenna Lychako (IND/ARC), Azhar Khan (Engineering/ARC), Tim Beecken (ARC), Darryl Ditzel (ARC) and Max Gooding (LAE).
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The students' mission, should they choose to accept it, was to produce a complete design project in only 24 hours.
The more than 40 students who took part in the 2012 Witters Competition - a design charrette in which student teams compete for a $3,500 prize - did not disappoint.
A total of eight teams produced a wide variety of mixed-use, high density, sustainable housing designs for downtown Gainesville.
Teams received the project details at 6 p.m. at the gallery on April 6. From that point on, they had only 24 hours to complete and submit their projects before pinning up their work and presenting to the judges at 6 p.m. the next evening.
> Read more
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Interior Design Pin-up 2012
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Interior design student work is displayed on the third floor of the Architecture Building as part of the 2012 Pin-up exhibits. ARC will be holding its Pin-up this week on the first and second floor, while LAE will hold its Pin-up on the week of April 23 on the fourth floor.
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HPSAO masonry workshop
 | | Members of the Historic Preservation Student Alumni Organization take part in a workshop on cleaning historic masonry on March 24. Read The Gainesville Sun story. |
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Published and Presented
An interdisciplinary project titled "A Dynamic-BIM (D-BIM) Workbench for Low/Net Zero Energy Buildings" won a 2012 Research Opportunity Seed Fund. The DCP-led, two-year project, funded at $87,165 (exception of faculty salaries and indirect costs), kicks off in May 2012.
The interdisciplinary project team includes DCP faculty members: Ravi Srinivasan, principal investigator and assistant professor - Low/Net Zero Energy Buildings; Charles Kibert, professor of building construction; Paul Fishwick, professor of computer and information science and engineering; and Siddharth Thakur, adjunct associate scientist of mechanical and aerospace engineering. The project has gained support and collaboration from Building Technologies Research & Integration Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy.
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Kevin Thompson, assistant professor of landscape architecture, presented a paper as a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Sustainable Development in Bali, Indonesia. The paper titled "MapPack: building local knowledge-bases for sustainable futures" detailed the current stage of a multi-year joint research initiative being undertaken by Thompson and researchers at UF's partnering institution, Mahasaraswati University, Denpasar.
The conference presentation coincided with the completion of the initiative's pilot study, which was launched in the Bangli Regency of Bali in August.
Thompson also presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) at the University of Illinois titled "Eldervoice: motivating elder participation in community development prospecting" that detailed a recent oral history project completed by Thompson and his students in White Springs, Fla. Thompson was also honored at the meeting for "His Long-term Excellence as an Educator in Landscape Architecture" and received an "Outstanding Communications" award for his contributions to the CELA Track Chair System.
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