The Humanized Built Environment (HBE) lab, led by Dr. June Young Park, is an interdisciplinary research group in Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. The HBE lab is currently looking for highly motivated students, please indicate your interest via this link!
Why to Humanize the Built Environment?
Our design, construction, and operation for the built environment require a human-centric approach. The technological adoption largely focuses on system efficiency where it misses the needs and perspectives of all people. There are underrepresented communities often lacking sustainable housing, green spaces, and accessible public areas compared to others. Such concerns may result in critical inequity challenges in energy, environment, and public health. The built environment should be humanized prioritizing and ensuring that advanced research methodologies are used to promote citizen and community participations to create sustainable, comfortable, intelligent, resilient, and equitable built environment.
News in 2025!
- [09.2025] HBE Lab received the UTA IRP Grant for Building Retrofit Gamification project (PI).
- [09.2025] Dr. Park joins ACM sustainability week as BuildSys 26 TPC Co-Chair.
- [08.2025] Chanuk joins HBE Lab as a PhD student. Welcome to Texas!
- [07.2025] Dr. Park presents HBE Lab’s disability studies at ADA 35th anniversary celebration webinar!
- [06.2025] Nikhil presented his research on building thermal resilience at SBE conference in Zurich.
- [06.2025] HBE Lab received the research grant from Hyundai Motors for eco-routing project (CoPI).
- [05.2025] Dr. Park joins BuildSys 25 organizing committee as Poster/Demo co-chair.
- [04.2025] Dr. Park attended ACRP Insight event for airport energy preparedness workshop.
- [04.2025] Ray presented his research poster for NZHR game development at UTA Innovation Day event.
- [04.2025] HBE Lab received the NSF SCC Award for WheelCom project (PI) – Project link.
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