The Institute for the Built Environment
The Institute for the Built Environment (IBE) at Colorado State University is an interdisciplinary research institute whose mission is to foster stewardship and sustainability of the built environment through research-based educational forums. The IBE brings together professionals and students from the related fields of design and construction to solve problems through research and community service-learning project work.With participation from professionals and graduate students from disciplines such as architecture, engineering, construction management, interior design, historic preservation, and landscape architecture, the IBE seeks to gain knowledge and educate built environmental professionals about emerging topics in green building and sustainable development. The institute collaborates with project teams, governmental agencies, non-profit organizations and regional companies as a green building and sustainable business consultant. The institute directs a sustainable building graduate program, professional certificate programs, and off-campus seminars and travel courses.
Contact
Information:Brian Dunbar, Director
Institute for the Built Environment
Guggenheim Hall
Colorado State University
Ft. Collins, CO 80523
Phone: 970.491.5041
dunbar@cahs.colostate.edu
Brian Dunbar is director of the Institute for the Built Environment (IBE) and professor of Construction Management at Colorado State University. Professor Dunbar holds two degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan, is a U.S. Green Building Council LEED AP, passing both the 2.0 and 2.1 exams. Brian’s teaching, research, and project work focuses on environmentally sustainable design and construction materials, methods, and systems. Professor Dunbar coordinates the graduate emphasis in sustainable building at Colorado State and has developed university and professional courses on sustainable building, including an annual course on St. John, USVI.
Through IBE, an interdisciplinary research institute that engages faculty and industry partners in healthy and sustainable building issues, Brian has guided project work and facilitated charrettes for the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, American Institute of Architects, municipalities, school districts, and the Colorado Governor’s Office of Energy Management and Conservation. Brian has served as LEED consultant for six registered projects and, in 2004, was selected as a LEED-CI faculty member by the USGBC. Brian’s sustainable building teaching and research as been honored and recognized by the AIA, the USGBC-Colorado Chapter, local communities, and universities.