The Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) was established in 2018 as a strategic initiative of the College of Design, Construction and Planning (DCP). FIBER is committed to the design, planning, construction and management of resilient built environments, with a strong interest in the well-being of individuals and communities who inhabit them. FIBER is positioned to respond to the complex threats – ecological, economic and social – that Florida and many regions around the world experience.
The Institute is home to scholarship spanning built environment disciplines and beyond, generating new knowledge and responding to these complex challenges through evidence-based research and practice. FIBER brings together faculty, research centers and students at the University of Florida around the theme of resilience. FIBER is a meeting point to synergize this knowledge, at the intersection of research, practice and lived experience.
