Our Philosophy

Activities & Services

The Institute for the Built Environment (IBE), founded in 1994 at Colorado State University, is a multidisciplinary research institute whose mission is to foster stewardship and sustainability of the built environment through a research-based, interdisciplinary educational forum.

Built environment refers to the totality of all that humans have changed or rearranged within the natural environment. (Bartuska and Young, 1996)

The IBE, originally established by faculty in the College of Applied Human Sciences, brings together professionals and students from the related fields of design and construction to solve problems through research related to the built environment.

GOALS

Focusing on stewardship and sustainability, the goals of the IBE are to:

• Optimize and reflect nature in built environments,
• Encourage human equality and cultural sensitivity in the design process and products of the built environment,
• Promote understanding and collaboration among the disciplines and allied professions that shape the built environment, and
• Create a leading-edge, multidisciplinary knowledge base for sustainability issues in the built environment

Last updated on December 7, 2006