Brian Dunbar Faculty, 1982 - 2012, Director, Institute for the Built Environment, 1994 - present

Brian Dunbar is Executive Director of the Institute for the Built Environment and Professor Emeritus at CSU. Brian has taught Interior Design, Construction Management, and Sustainability courses and created the graduate emphasis in sustainable building, professional certification courses in green building, and sustainable design and construction courses offered in Costa Rica and on the island of St. John, USVI.

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2017 Legacies Honoree Video

Watch Brian Dunbar’s Legacies Project video and learn more about his impact at CSU.

USGBC Leadership Award Video

Brian received a prestigious 2022 Leadership Award from the U.S. Green Building Council. Watch the video tribute.

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Brian's Biography

Read Brian’s biography and career history.

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Honor Brian by supporting Brian Dunbar Future Leaders for Built Environments fund, which focuses on the development of healthy, thriving built environments, and a program he directs and helped grow at CSU.

Contact Brian

Contact Brian at brian.dunbar@colostate.edu and the Institute for the Built Environment.

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Brian Dunbar in a garden — Colorado State University Institute for the Built Environment Executive Director Brian Dunbar checks out vegetables in Coor's Field's sustainable garden, September 16, 2014. The Institute for the Built Environment is completing its second year of managing "The GaRden." IBE has worked with the Colorado Rockies and Aramark, the Rockies’ exclusive food and beverage partner, to develop the 700-square-foot garden in an effort to provide healthy, sustainably produced herbs and vegetables on site. The Coors Field garden is an example of IBE’s ethics of sustainable design in the built environment, regionally relevant projects and educational outreach intended to spread understanding about sustainable activities and their impacts on health.

Brian Dunbar and Jack Curfman

Dick Dunn and Brian Dunbar

Brian Dunbar with a green school — Colorado State University Institute for the Built Environment director Brian Dunbar poses with his hybrid car in front of Fossil Ridge High School in Fort Collins, Colorado. Poudre School District hired IBE as its green building consultant for the high school.

Brian and Karen Dunbar with Jack Curfman

Brian Dunbar in a green school — Colorado State University Institute for the Built Environment director Brian Dunbar talks with Christina Verg with Poudre School District operations in a Fossile Ridge High School common area. Poudre School District hired IBE as its green building consultant for the construction of the high school.

Brian Dunbar in the Coors Field Garden — Aramark Chef at Coors Field Lawrence Slade talks with Colorado State University Institute for the Built Environment Executive Director Brian Dunbar as they harvest produce at Coors Field's sustainable garden, September 16, 2014. The Institute for the Built Environment is completing its second year of managing "The GaRden." IBE has worked with the Colorado Rockies and Aramark, the Rockies’ exclusive food and beverage partner, to develop the 700-square-foot garden in an effort to provide healthy, sustainably produced herbs and vegetables on site. The Coors Field garden is an example of IBE’s ethics of sustainable design in the built environment, regionally relevant projects and educational outreach intended to spread understanding about sustainable activities and their impacts on health.

Brian Dunbar and colleagues in the Coors Field GaRden — Colorado State University Institute for the Built Environment Executive Director Brian Dunbar, Aramark Director of Concessions at Coors Field Erik Henchmann, CSU horticulture graduate student Gary Gross and IBE intern Colin Clay pose as they harvest produce at Coors Field's sustainable garden, Sept. 16, 2016.The Institute for the Built Environment is completing its second year of managing "The GaRden." IBE has worked with the Colorado Rockies and Aramark, the Rockies’ exclusive food and beverage partner, to develop the 700-square-foot garden in an effort to provide healthy, sustainably produced herbs and vegetables on site. The Coors Field garden is an example of IBE’s ethics of sustainable design in the built environment, regionally relevant projects and educational outreach intended to spread understanding about sustainable activities and their impacts on health.

Brian Dunbar with colleagues