“And he said, ‘What I would have given to have access to the wisdom of the industry when I was a young man,’” Jackson recalled.
Jackson remembers meeting Gonfiantini at his home in Reno, Nevada, to discuss it.
After weathering 2008’s Great Recession, Nello Gonfiantini III (BSBA 1976, MBA 1977), initiated an endowed professorship in honor of beloved former faculty member Michael Crean. Real-world challenges are what sprung the Collaboratory in the first place. The students will have access like they’ve never had access before to working on real challenges in the real world.” “Now we have a platform for seamless interaction between industry and academia. “I saw the vision to create the Burns School as the hub for the most advanced education in real estate and construction, and I feel like we’ve set it up on that trajectory,” Jackson said. Daniels was the only institution in the country with a real estate and construction management program within it. The idea came to her when she taught at Cal Poly, but it wasn’t until she arrived at DU in 2013 that she felt she was on fertile ground to grow it. This is a manifestation of exactly what that means.”įor Jackson, last week’s grand opening was more than a decade in the making. “It influences how we interact, how we connect, how we’re able to solve problems. “Space matters,” said Barbara Jackson, director of the Burns School and visionary behind the Collaboratory. And in the middle of it all, round tables and rolling chairs equip guests to huddle together and soak up the 360-degree experience. A conference room comfortably seats at least a dozen for video calls and face-to-face meetings. Steps away, an 18-foot spread of interactive touchscreens (the Bluescape wall) allow teams to ideate together, whether they’re in person or online. The arc of LCD screens (known as the Liquid Galaxy) wallpapers an elevated stage. Crean Collaboratory, located on the third floor of the Daniels College of Business. “Transformative” is a word that gets thrown around a lot when describing the new, Marion J. “It’s going to really transform how I teach.” Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management. “You can get a lot of geospatial data around the property and start determining who the product is, why people would live there, what they want, what their needs are,” explained Holt, an assistant professor in the Franklin L. He overlays demographic information, nearby amenities, traffic patterns, real-time real estate listings and even popular lunch spots nearby. Holt’s fingers keep flitting and suddenly, anything seems attainable. The Google Earth satellite view is pristine and comes to life on 7-panel monitors. With a few strokes of the keyboard and clicks of a mouse, we’re in downtown Miami Beach, Florida, 1,723 miles from the University of Denver campus. “This is what cyberstalking a property looks like,” Eric Holt says, and his fingers go to work. Master’s student Adrian Frank touches the interactive Bluescape wall at the Collaboratory.
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