Charles J. Kibert is a Holland Professor in the M.E. Rinker Sr. School of Building Construction and Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida. He is co-founder and President of the Cross Creek Initiative, Inc., a non-profit industry/university collaboration seeking to implement sustainability principles into construction. He is a board member of the Green Building Initiative, Inc., a non-profit with an alternative building assessment approach known as Green Globes. His research interests include sustainable development and construction, deconstruction, environmental impacts of construction, construction and demolition (C&D) debris recycling, and construction ecology and metabolism. He teaches courses on sustainability and green building in the Sustainable Construction track in the University of Florida Building Construction Masters degree program and courses on green building and LEED to building industry professionals in the southeast U.S. He is the author of Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Construction (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2005; 2nd Edition 2008). Along with colleagues from the Departments of Religion, Political Science, and Forestry, he recently completed a book on the ethics of sustainability for John Wiley & Sons, Working toward Sustainability: Ethical Decision Making in a Technological World. He holds a B.S. (General Engineering) from the U.S. Military Academy, a M.S. (Nuclear Engineering) from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of South Florida. He is a registered professional engineer in Florida, a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) and a Green Globes Assessor (GGA). He has served as a consultant on numerous green building projects, and directed the design and construction of the award winning Rinker Hall, the first LEED gold certified building in Florida and which was listed as one of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE) Top 10 green building projects.
