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UF College of Design, Construction & Planning Perspective Newsletter
   JUNE 2013  
Mobile Kiosk

BCN & SoA students collaborate to design and build a solar-enabled mobile kiosk.

Solar-enabled mobile kiosk

Challenge: create a kiosk that is mobile, transported by a bike, made of steel and solar panels, has LED lighting and is used to charge laptops and cell phones. This was the challenge accepted by 14 architecture students and seven building construction students in the Integrated Project Delivery course this spring.

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UF announces launch of Citylab-Sarasota

Sarasota

Proposed renovation of historic Bill Rupp building from Orange Avenue. Design and digital images prepared by Guy Peterson/OFA Inc.

The UF School of Architecture announces the launch of CityLab-Sarasota, a Master of Architecture program focused on issues of emerging technology, culture and climate responsive architecture drawn from the lineage and principals of the Sarasota School of Architecture. The program will launch in August 2014.

"Sarasota offers unique opportunities for UF students to study architecture and urbanism in a culturally and environmentally rich community that also faces great ecological and infrastructural challenges as it continues to grow," said Martin Gold, director of the UF School of Architecture.

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Student Ambassadors to promote DCP

Ambassadors

Last fall two students had the same vision: to share their love of DCP with incoming University of Florida students. Architecture senior Emily Dawson and interior design sophomore Victoria Bryer, like many DCP students, have a passion for their college and majors. After learning of other ambassador programs on campus, Bryer came to Dawson with an idea to create a program that provides knowledge about the college. After talking with several faculty members and administration about the idea, DCP Ambassadors was created.

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Brooks + Scarpa's Yin Yang House
named an AIA Top 10 Green Project

A1A Top 10

Venice, Calif., firm Brooks + Scarpa was awarded an AIA Top 10 Green Project Award for their project Yin Yang House.

Angela Brooks, BDes 1987, and Lawrence Scarpa, BDes 1981 and MArch 1987, of the firm Brooks + Scarpa, received an AIA Top 10 Green Project Award for the design of the Yin Yang House. The home is designed to reduce energy demand by more than 50%. This design strategy combined with a tight perimeter building envelope and other active sustainable features, such as the 12kw solar system, make this a zero energy consumption home. The home has produced 100% of its energy needs. The project goals of the Yin Yang house focused on what can be described as the "six zeros": zero waste, zero energy, zero water, zero carbon, zero emissions and zero ignorance.

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HP master's student researches historic buildings

HP Research

Pictured above are historic preservation graduate students Jessop Warren and Amber Caton during a site visit for research at Joaneda House in St. Augustine.

With family and friends located in the historic districts of both Savannah and Charleston, Army ROTC cadet and historic preservation master’s student Jessop Warren has always had an interest in artisanship and historic preservation.

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Miller Construction Company celebrates 40 years

Miller Construction Company, owned by Harley Miller, BCN 1969, and Tom Miller, BCN 1965, is celebrating 40 years of business. Since its opening in 1973, Miller Construction Company has kept its clients best interest in mind generating repeat customers and 348 Craftsmanship Awards. Congratulations from everyone at DCP!


Alumni News

Lt. Col. Patrick C. Suermann, Ph.D. 2009, P.E., LEED AP, served as the U.S. Air Force Academy's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Field Engineering and Readiness Laboratory (FERL) Commander for the summer of 2013. In its historic 20th offering, 62 cadets and midshipmen from the Air Force Academy, West Point and the Naval Academy, learned hands-on engineering techniques in the field lab at Jack's Valley on the grounds of the Air Force Academy's 18,000 acres in Colorado. Activities included heavy equipment operations, concrete beam design/breaking, steel bridge, surveying and constructing modular Navajo housing for the Southwest Indian Foundation.

Cathy Roche, MArch 1994, and Bill Martin, BDes 1997 and MArch 1999, with SchenkelShultz Architects in Orlando, Fla., are working on the new 54,000 sq. ft. UF Warrington College of Business expansion at the northeast corner of campus.

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