Welcome to HBE Lab!

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.

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 2024!

  • [3.2024] We are actively accepting applications for NSF CyberTraining ‘justice in data’ bootcamp. If you want to improve your skills in data science in Summer, you must consider this opportunity!
  • [3.2024] Dr. Park serves as a guest editor for the special issue “Artificial Intelligence for Energy Management in Buildings and Cities” in the Journal of Data-centric Engineering. Consider your submission!
  • [3.2024] Dr. Park serves as a reviewer for the ASCE i3CE 2024 conference in Pittsburgh!
  • [2.2024] Dr. Park joins BuildSys2024 as an organizing committee member!
  • [1.2024] Drew and Terry join HBE for their master project research!
  • [1.2024] Minseok joins HBE as a PhD student! Welcome to Texas!
  • [1.2024] Dr. Park is invited for several seminar talks regarding reinforcement learning based OCC at Sejong University, Hanyang Erica University, and IAQVEC technical seminar series.
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