April 2011

 

RESUME

 

Dennis Fukai, PhD, Architect
16708 SW 132 Lane, Archer, FL 32618
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BLOG

www.insitebuilders.us

 

 


EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D on Architecture, 1994

University of California, Berkeley, M.Arch in Architecture, 1990

University of Southern California, B.Arch in Architecture, 1971
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Experience (Partial project list)

2006 – Present. Author, saltwater fly fisherman.

1996 – 2006, Insitebuilders.  Building information models for visualization and risk management. Includes short-text and digital publications for design and construction, graphic databases, and 3D/4D construction modeling. Visual and graphic communications research.

1988 - 1996, Design and construction management consultant, construction administrator, graduate coursework, field research, fellowships, and PhD investigations on informal (squatter) design and construction methods at the University of California, Berkeley.

1985 – 1989, Vice President Marketing, JLA Architects, design-builders. Project and construction administration and implementation of visual information systems for site utilization and facilities management.  Hotel, conference, and medical projects. Walnut Creek CA.

1981 – 1985, Assistant Vice President, Design and Development.  Investment Mortgage International, design and construction administration for international real estate investors. Residential condominiums, site development, commercial and retail, and production residential housing. San Francisco CA.

1971 – 1981, President, Architecture Unplugged, design and construction, single, multi-family, commercial and retail design and construction, Aspen CO. (Sample of early projects)

1966 – 1969, Operations officer, US Army Combat Engineers. Combat operations headquarters, refuge housing, combat R&R facilities. Honorable discharge. 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, Colorado Springs and 1st Air Calvary Division, Viet Nam.
 

Professional Licenses (Current)

Licensed Architect, Florida

Licensed Architect, Colorado

Licensed Real Estate, California

Licensed Pilot, single engine instrument, 900 hours


Professional Membership and Activities

1998 – 2002, Design Build Institute of America (DBIA). Charter student chapter at UFL.

1997 – 2003, Association of Schools of Construction (ASC).

1995 – 1997, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)

1994 – 2003, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)

1989 – 1992, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Member, Oakland Chapter.

1989 – 1992, Society of Marketing Professional Services (SMPS), San Francisco Chapter

 

Awards and Honors and Community Service

Fulbright Scholar, Valparaiso, Chile. Adjunct, University of Valparaiso, School of Architecture, Valparaiso, Chile. 1992-93

Peace Corp, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Trained in Santa Lucia, Honduras and San Pedro Sula 1989.

Board of Directors, Dignity Project, Gainesville, Florida. A construction and automotive technologies program for high school students. Gainesville, 2002 - present.

Board of Directors, Neighborhood Housing Development Corporation (NHDC), low income and affordable housing development Gainesville. 2001 – present

Consultant, Vetspace Incorporated and the McMohon Transition House, Gainesville. 2001 - present.

Community Development Consultant, South of Downtown (SODO) Neighborhood and Storm Water Park Developments. Regional Transportation Authority, Gainesville. Fall 2001.

Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), Invited judge, Jacksonville, FL: Annual TOBY Awards for the Office Building of the Year, March 2000.

Organizing Member, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 1997 West Regional Conference,. June 1996.

National Science Foundation Review Panelist, Washington DC. National Academic Research Infrastructure, Class 1 Projects. June 1996.

Reviewer for ASCE TCCP Workshop - Nov 2-3, 2002. Visualization Enhancement in Teaching Engineering Graphics Concepts Through a "Show-and-Tell-and-Let-Apply" (SATALA) Approach: A Case Study. Wafeek S. Wahby

Florida Concrete and Products Association. Flexibility in Design, Department of Conferences, Continuing Education, Gainesville. 2000

University of Florida, International Center. Reviewer for the Overseas Studies Undergraduate Scholarship, Spring 2000.

 


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2010 – Present, Development of Online and Onsite Construction Management Capstone Courses, NIIT Global, New Delhi, India.

1997 – 2004, Rinker School of Building Construction, University of Florida, Gainesville FL.

1995 – 1997, College of Engineering, School of Architecture and Construction, Washington State University, Pullman WA.

1994 – 1995, Department of Vocational Technology, Hartnell Community College, Salinas CA.

1992 – 1993, College of Architectural Engineering, University of Valparaiso, Fulbright Scholar.   Valparaiso, Chile.

1993 – 1995, Community Education, Hartnell, Gavilan, Foothill, Canada Community Colleges.

1992 – 1993, Salinas High School District, Substitute Teacher, Salinas CA

1992 Fall, North Monterrey High School, Automotive Technology, Salinas CA

1991, Oakland School District, 6th grade, AIA Built Environment Education Program (BEEP)

1990, University of California, Berkeley, Graduate teaching assistant, Berkeley CA

1971 – 1975, Colorado Mountain College, Aspen and Glenwood Springs CO

 

Course Development

University of Florida

BCN1252 Drawing I: set up curriculum and wrote text, coordinate graduate instructors.

BCN3255 Computer and Graphic Communications: online and video delivery.

BCN4237 Roofing Systems: distance delivery, student produced training videos.

BCN4751 Project Planning Feasibility: Capstone course for residential track.

BCN5754, Site Development: graduate course, real estate, planning, and engineering.

BCN5779 Facilities Operations and Management: with public works program

BCN6641 Value Engineering: taught according to Society of American Value Engineer.

BCN6756 Housing Economics & Policy: housing and development professionals.

BCN4301 3D Construction Modeling: construction and development visualization

BCN4905 Design-build Methods: design-build management and practice

BCN4905 Web@Work in Construction: Web based project management

 

Washington State University

ARCH332 Construction Materials III (1995, 1996)

ARCH473 Professional Practice (1997)

ARCH510 Research Theories and Methods (1996, 1997)

CSTM201 Introduction to Construction (1996, 1997)

CSTM455 Construction Scheduling I (1996)

CSTM470 Construction Estimating I (1995, 1996)

ARCH491 Seminar on Computers: Hypergraphic Data Animation (1996)

ARCH491 Seminar on Computers: Web@Work (1997)

ARCH499 Independent Study: 9 individual courses

 

Distance Learning and Continuing Education

CILB Course: Web@Work in the Construction Industry, June 1998

Web@Work in the Construction Industry, 1998

The Rinker Method: computer graphics and communications

Design-Build Community Clinic, WSU

 

University Advising

2000 – 2001, University Minority Mentor Program

1998 – 1993, University of Florida Previews Advisor. Freshman orientation

 

PhD Dissertations (5 dissertations)

Masters Thesis and Reports (9 thesis, 11 reports)

Senior honors paper (26 papers)

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FUNDED RESEARCH

Funding award total, 1996 – present:  $ 986.020

Principal Investigator: $516,300

Co-Principal Investigator: $469,720

National and state research funding has included land and environmental planning, resource visualization, construction preconstruction modeling, and teaching research fellowships.

 


PUBLICATIONS

Mastering the Art of 3D Construction Modeling. Insitebuilders Press, Florida, March 2011.

A (Small) House of Your Own: Plan Permit Pay in 3D. Insitebuilders Press, Florida, February 2010.

How a House is Built: With 3D Construction Modeling. Insitebuilders Press, Florida, January 2009.

Being SUSTAINABLE: Building Systems Performance. Insitebuilders Press, Florida, March 2008.

Building SIMPLE: Building an Information Model. Insitebuilders Press, Florida, September 2006.

Living SMALL: The Life of Small Houses. Insitebuilders Press, Florida, December 2005.

3D Construction Modeling: Project-based Learning. Insitebuilders Press, Florida, May 2004.

Graphic Communications in Construction. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, Spring 2002.

Internet Basics: Web@Work for the Home Builder. Homebuilder Press, Washington DC, with companion CD, Spring 2000.

"Beyond Sphereland: 4D-CAD In Construction Communications". In Developments and Applications: The Visual Construction Enterprise. Swets and Zeitlinger, New York, Fall 2002.

"Distance Training for the Home Improvement Industry." In Distance Training, Zane Berg, Ed., Jossey Bass, Publication, San Francisco, California, Nov 1998.

"Virtual Reality in Construction, Asia."  With Yimin Zhu. TG24, CIB, Virtual Reality in the Built Environment. November 1998.

"PCIS: A Piece-based Construction Information System on the World Wide Web." Journal of Automation in Construction. Elsevier Publication, New York,. August 1997.

"Public Works Engineering Education and International Public Works Center.".  With Fazil T. Najafi, American Society for Engineering Education Conference. April 2002.

"Graduate Study in Public Works Engineering and Management."  With Ravi S. Srinivasan. CE/ Entrepreneurship. June 2002.

"A Visual Approach to Orbital and Planetary Assembly, Construction, Maintenance and Repair." American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics World Congress Houston. July 2002.

"A Pictorial Information System of Orbital and Planetary Development." ASCE/AIAA Space 2001 Conference. Albuquerque, NM. August 2001.

"A Visual Decision Tool for Design and Construction Management." IEEE 5th International Conference on Visual Information Conference, London. July 2000.

"PCIS Revisited: A Visual Database for Design and Construction." ACADIA 2001, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Buffalo. 2001.

"Beyond Sphereland: 4D CAD in Construction Communications." ASCE Conference Construction Congress VI. and Visualization Workshop, Orlando.  February 2000.

"The Rinker Method: Integrated Computer Simulations as a Multidimensional Learning Experience." Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture, ACADIA'98 Conference, Quebec City. 1998.

"A WORLD of Data: An Animated Hypergraphic Construction Information System." ACADIA'96, Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture, Tucson. November 1996.

"The Living Document: A Hypergraphic Construction Information System." VII International Construction Innovations Conference, Santiago, Chile. September 1995.

"Viewpoint: Don't be Snowed by High-Tech." Engineering News Record (ENR). December 2000.

"High Time to Get on the Web." Interview, Qualified Remodeler, Cygnus Publishing, Michigan. July 2000

"CGN 5606 - Value Engineering & CGN 6936 - 3D Preconstruction Engineering Models".  College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville. October 2000

"4D Visualization Workshop".  Invited presentations and working sessions, University Center Hotel, Gainesville. February 2000.

"Benefits of Value Engineering". Gator Engineering Seminars Week, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville. February 2000.

"The Role of Value Engineering in Conceptual Programming."  College of Engineering Graduate Studies Program, University of Florida, Gainesville. October 1998.

"A Networked Construction Information System."  Rinker 8, CIB Technology Conference, Gainesville. February 1998

"Changing Trends in Construction Standards."  SAF/SFRC Symposium on Changing Societal Demands for Forest Products, University Center, Gainesville. April 1998.

"A Visual Approach to Project Management: Application of 3D/4D CAD in the Sheet Metal and Roofing Industry". FRSA 79th Annual Convention and Trade Show. Orange County Convention Center, Orlando. June 2001.

"The Hype of High-Tech". Invited Speaker, AEC2001 Computers in Construction Conference. McCormick Center, Chicago. June 2001

"Visual Construction Management Methods".FRSA National Conference, Orlando Conference Center, Orlando. June 2001.

"A Constructivists Approach to Construction Computer Modeling". Syllabus99, Syllabus Institute, San Jose CA. July 1999.

"Field Simulations and Construction Modeling."  CADfutures'99. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. June 1999

"Computer Models as the Objects of Graphical Communications in Construction Simulations".  Syllabus98 Conference, Santa Clara CA, July 1998.

"Construction Documents Generated from a Data-centric Construction Model."  Construction Specifications Institute Regional Conference, Coeur d' Alene ID. September 1997.

"A Virtual Construction Information System -- Virtually Here and Virtually Free." 1997 AIA National Convention, New Orleans. May 1997.

"PCIS, A Piece-based Construction Information System". Research Demonstration, 1997 Associated Schools of Construction Conference, Seattle. April 1997.

"A Web-Based Construction Document: Virtual and Material Realities Transformed by an Architecture of Information."  1997 ACSA Technology Conference, CONSTRUCTS AND CONSTRUCTIONS: Virtual And Material Realities, Dallas. March 1997.

"The Dilemma-Millennium of Modern Architectural Dinosaurs: An Immersive Information Landscape as a web-based Construction Document". 1997 ACSA West Region Meeting, Los Angeles. January 1997.

"Real-World, Real-Time, Real-Fast: Using a Trainer in a Computer Mediated Classroom". Simulations to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 1996 Materials Institute, June 1996.

"Computers in the WSU Architecture Department."  School of Architecture Advisory Board on the use of computers in the classroom, Spokane. February 1996.

"The PCIS of Casa6: Reading life in the construction of a squatter's home."  URVI 98, Ninth Annual Rinker International Conference on Building Construction. Barquisimeto, Venezuela. October 1998.

"A Networked Graphical Construction Information System." "Technology Innovation and Integration in Construction".  Eight Annual Rinker International Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville. February 1998.

"A Web-based Construction Document: Design and Construction Information Transfer Using a Piece-based Construction Information System." AACE WebNet'97, Toronto. October 1997.

"Constructive learning strategies used in a net-based hypergraphic environment."  ED-MEDIA/ED-TELECOM 97, Calgary. June 1997.

Commencement Speaker, by invitation of the graduating class of 1996, School of Architecture, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. June 1996.

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University Committees and Service

Coach, Associated Schools of Construction – Association of General Contractors (ASC-AGC) Student Design Build Competition, Interdisciplinary design-build teams. Spring 2002 and 2003. Region II winners, two years in a row!

Education Advisory Committee, Design Build Institute of America, Washington DC, 1999 - 2002

Publications Committee, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida. Fall 2001 - present.

Facilities Planning Committee, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida. Fall 2001 - present.

Witters Competition Coordinator, 2000 through 2003, College endowed annual interdisciplinary design competition.

Chair, Scholarship Committee, M.E. Rinker School of Building Construction, University of Florida. Spring 2000 - present.

Admission Committee, M.E Rinker School of Building Construction, University of Florida. Spring 2000 - present.

Information and Technology Committee, M.E Rinker School of Building Construction, University of Florida. Spring 2000.

Furnishing and Finishes for Rinker Hall.  Conferences and selection of outside suppliers and consultants for FF&E for Rinker Hall. Fall 2001

Undergraduate Education Committee, M.E Rinker School of Building Construction, University of Florida. Spring 1999 - present.

Rinker Hall AEC Selection Committee for the Construction Manager and Architects, January 2000.

Chair, Rinker Hall Building Committee. Monitor the program statement and selection of the design and construction consultants for the new BCN building. Report to the faculty and director. Spring 1998 - January 2000.

Program Statement for the New Rinker Hall to assist UF Planning and Construction in drafting the RFQ and RFPs for AEC selection. 1999

Chair, Program Development Committee for the new BCN Building. Draft statement for UF facilities. Fall 1997

School Planning Committee, School of Architecture and Construction Management, Washington State University. 1997

Advisory Committee for a Web-Based Professional Practice Management Certificate, Washington State University Conferences and Institutes. 1996

Safety Officer, School of Architecture and Construction Management, Washington State University. 1996

 


International work

International Center for Public Works. University of Florida, College of Engineering, with Fazil Najafi, Professor and Director. Correlation with EPOT3 Cuba, 2001 to Present.

Empressa de Obras de Transporte 3 (EPOT3). Office of Technical Information for the Ministry of Transportation Construction with Fidel -------- in La Habana, Cuba. 1999 - present.

Universidad Peruano, Lima, Peru. Collaboration with Mario Segami, Graduate Coordinator for the College of Architecture. 2000 - Present.

Universidad Central, Caracas, Venezuela, Seminar in Advanced Computer Graphics with Gilberto Buenano, April 2000.