Lisa Platt

Lisa Sundahl Platt is director of the Sustainable Built Environments Program at the University of Florida’s (UF) College of Design, Construction and Planning, an Assistant Professor of Interior Design, and Research Faculty with the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER). She leads the Design Dynamics Lab, where her team develops human-centered, systems-based methods to reduce health and safety risks through intelligent interior environments and material strategies.

Her research focuses on material resilience in housing and community infrastructure, particularly how interior materials, assemblies, and smart technologies perform under water intrusion, flooding, moisture, and other hazard-related stressors. As principal investigator for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s Resilience Inference Performance Level (RIPL) initiative at UF FIBER, she led work that connects material and smart home technology choices to reduced losses and improved resilience in single-family homes exposed to natural hazards.

Sundahl Platt is the creator of the Sustainable Adaptive Material Performance Level (SAMPL) framework and practicum lab, an AI-enhanced platform that uses computational modeling to assess material strength, symbiosis, sustainability, and failure likelihood under real-world risks, especially flood and moisture-related damage. SAMPL and RIPL provide data-informed tools for homeowners, builders, insurers, and policymakers to compare materials and prioritize risk-responsive, climate-adaptive decisions in vulnerable regions.

With more than 25 years of practice as an National Council for Interior Design Qualification-certified, multi-state licensed interior designer, her funded projects, publications, and patents advance environmental material intelligence and the role of interior design in public health, climate adaptation, and hazard mitigation across housing, healthcare, and community contexts