Sustainability & the Built Environment

Sustainability and the Built Environment (SBE) is the one of the newest and fastest growing academic programs within the University of Florida College of Design, Construction, and Planning. We welcome all weavers in walking our world through the bottleneck of the Anthropocene to a prosperous place on the other side.

Together, we are constructing bridges to a better built environment as we honor our past heritage, elevate the solutions embedded in the present problems, and make manifest the regenerative society of tomorrow. We aim to facilitate whole transect prosperity reconnecting rural-to-urban livelihoods.

The mission of the College of Design Construction and Planning is to improve the quality of the built and natural environments through offering exceptional educational and professional programs and research/scholarship initiatives that address the planning, design, construction, and preservation of the built and natural environments.

The University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning is the only college in the nation that houses design, construction and planning under one college.

The mission of the College of Design, Construction and Planning is to improve the quality of the built and natural environments through offering exceptional educational and professional programs and research/scholarship initiatives that address the planning, design, construction and preservation of the built and natural environments.