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2008 Supplier Showcase Scheduled for Friday, October 17th, at Sandia Resort and Casino

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Hey, What’s Up With Our Economy, Anyway?

Ask a Home-Grown Expert on September 17^th, 2008    

      When it comes down to discussing the recent developments and the future outlook of the economy in the state of New Mexico, you want a lively, real, local heavy-hitter on your team.  The joint meeting of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network (NMFMN), in conjunction with the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the New Mexico Association of Energy Engineers (NMAEE), will provide just such a playing field on Wednesday evening, September 17^th, 2008 in the Eagle Room at the Sandia Resort and Casino, beginning at 5:30 pm.

    Dr. Larry Waldman, Senior Research Scientist, B.S. (Mathematics), University of New Mexico, 1968, and Ph.D. (Economics), University of New Mexico, 1981, is the man who understands where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re headed.    
     Dr. Waldman has been with Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) since 1988, where he has spent most of his time managing the “FOR-UNM” Economic Forecasting Service. He produces an economic forecast of the New Mexico economy each quarter, which is distributed to clients of the service. He also publishes an economic forecasting newsletter, The FOR-UNM Bulletin, which is available to the public on a subscription basis.
     Dr. Waldman additionally writes four or five articles annually relating to the New Mexico economy for publication in New Mexico Businesses’ Current Economic Report, the BBER monthly economic update newsletter.  He also writes press releases, does numerous interviews for radio and TV, and makes a dozen or so personal appearances each year, explaining recent developments in and the outlook for the New Mexico economy to professional, civic, and governmental audiences.
     Dr. Waldman is a principal investigator for and contributor to various research projects, including poverty in New Mexico, welfare reform, New Mexico economic history, water use, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), biotechnology in New Mexico, and the New Mexico aviation industry.

    Plan now to join in on a lively, inter-active discussion forum lead by one of the state’s leading economic experts.  Each organization must rsvp to its own program chair by 5 pm on Friday, September 12^th, to be included.  NMFMN members, email carolee@nmfmn.com to be included.

2008 Supplier Showcase Scheduled for

Friday, October 17^th, at Sandia Resort and Casino

     Mark you calendar TODAY for Friday afternoon, October 17^th, 2008, at the Sandia Resort and Casino for the 2^nd Annual Supplier’s Showcase, co-operatively sponsored this year by the New Mexico Facility Managers Network (NMFMN), the International Facility Managers Association (IFMA), and the New Mexico Society of Healthcare Engineers (NMSHE).  Beginning at high noon and ending at 4 pm, here is the opportunity for one-stop shopping at a beautiful and fun venue where facility managers and engineers and their staffs will see the latest and greatest in products and services that will make running your building a whole lot easier. 

     Suppliers, commit NOW to showcase your company to a broad spectrum of decision makers from businesses ranging across the entire state. Facility managers, you get in free, and the ribbon on this package is your opportunity to win a substantial door prize for your attendance.

     Here are the details:

     Facility managers: Attend the show armed with a pocket full of business cards—plan ahead!  You business card is your admission ticket.  Each exhibitor will contribute a door prize worth at least $50.00, and only facility managers or their direct reports--with their business cards-- will be eligible to win.

     Suppliers:  Your cost for a 3’ x 6’ table at the event is $150.00, plus your $50.00 door prize for eligible, card-wielding facility management only.  You may purchase more than one table, and access to the exhibit hall is from 8 am until 7 pm the day of the event with show hours from noon until 4 pm.

       Suppliers MUST RSVP by Friday, October 3^rd, to be guaranteed a table space.  All attendees will have access to the buffet snack table and cash bar.  Supplier sponsorships are available; contact carolee@nmfmn.com for details!

The Quest for the Gold: Stevens Leads

 Group Through LEED Synopsis, Q&A

           With a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering,  a B.A. in Applied Business, and the maritime Master in Cargo Carrier behind him, facility engineer Gary Michael Stevens, who currently manages the 150,000 square foot Citibank Building (housing 800+ employees) for the Cushman and Wakefield property management consortium is seeking another medal for his collection:  LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional certification.   At the August meeting of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network in Albuquerque, he took the crowd along for the ride, exploring the challenges and frustrations of his attempt to“go for the gold” (or any other level) of LEED accreditation.

             Stevens touched base on the history of LEED, which is properly titled the LEED Green Building Rating System.  The rating system was formulated by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).  USGBC sets standards for building energy use, low impact on land, proper water usage, and other environmental criteria.  At this juncture, participation in LEED certification is voluntary, although given the future of energy conservation mandates, investigating building efficiency now is “probably a worthwhile strategy” as Steven noted.

              Beyond the history lesson, Stevens discussed LEED for New Construction (NC) and LEED for Existing Buildings (EB).  “LEED credits are measured by efficient use of capital, and it is a whole lot easier to do it right in the first place than to try to retrofit an existing structure.”

             “My quest to become a LEED Accredited Professional (LEED-AP) has been a confusing and difficult process.  The organization is young; there are no text books or reliable study guides.  The LEED credits have gone through many revisions and changes, but fundamentally follow standards conceived by the American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  USGBC does have reference guide but it’s expensive.  Your best bet is to log onto the USGBC website periodically for updates.”

           Need resources?  Visit these websites:  USGBC.org; EnergyStar.gov; or contact Gary personally at gary.michael.stevens@citi.com  

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Sept. 2008 Executive Director Corner

     Every now and then, I don’t think it hurts to remind everyone about the roots of this organization, who we benefit financially, and what we all can to help it grow.

     The New Mexico Facility Managers Network was started in 1994 by a handful of facility managers who had met during a Public Service of New Mexico focus group.  They thought it was probably a good idea to keep in touch with one another, going forward, to compare common challenges and solutions to the events that occur daily in the course of running a building.  .

      Kim Trinosky, a “founding father” and avid golfer, thought it would be fun to organize a charity golf outing to benefit an engineering scholarship at the University of New Mexico.  About 30 people played the first time (compared to the 169 we had this July).  In 2005, the Board decided to add Central New Mexico Community College as a recipient of scholarship money for their students in the mechanical trades studies.  To date, UNM and CNM have received almost $40,000.000 for deserving students, thanks to NMFMN.

     Next, what can you do to help us grow?  Suppliers to this organization, YOU hold the key.  In your daily rounds, helping facility managers become aware of the latest products and services to make buildings run smoothly, you meet many people who are not members of this group, and who would benefit professionally by joining. 

    Remember, any facility manager who would like to attend any of our events for the first time can do so, for free (and remember, the October 17th Supplier Showcase is free to them, too).  We know people like to get the “flavor” of an organization before they join.  So here is the opportunity for YOU, dear supplier member, to invite some of the other facility managers with whom you are working with to join you for a free breakfast or dinner as my guest, or get them out to our tradeshow!.  Just please let me know who is coming, in the case of the rsvp’d events, so I can make a reservation for them so that they will be comfortable.

     To continue to evolve and thrive, membership growth is what drives all of our activities.  Make an effort this month to offer the chance to a new facility manager to “find” our dedicated organization.

14th Annual Golf Scholarship Fundraiser

Featured Record Crowd, Door Prizes for All!

With 167 golfers and 24 helpers, the New Mexico Facility Managers Network 2008 Scholarship Fundraiser Golf Tournament topped last year’s record for attendance, virtually guaranteeing a record donation this December to the scholarship funds at the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College.  After dominating all three “nines” on a picture perfect day at the Isleta Eagle Championship Golf Course,  golfers and golf helpers alike left the event with a door prize in hand.

    Loyalty form the membership and its constituents is the one constant factor in the annual event’s continued success.  Distinct contributions, both large and small, from both countless companies and outstanding individuals personalized the gathering.

     Again the trend to companies fielding multiple teams of golfers continued as they competed in the Championship Division to win the esteemed silver trophy.  But the golfers in the ABCD Scramble Division enjoyed the outing, too.

     Tables full of valuable door prizes mitigated even a bad day on the greens.  Power tools, a miniature scooter, restaurant gift certificates, and loads of golf gear and much much more left with the athletes after the post-game buffet.

     First-timer John Topp from Shamrock Foods quipped, “Wow!  Great people, wonderful grounds and clubhouse, food, and door prizes for all!  See you next year,  that is for certain!”  

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Before Pictures

Player Pictures

Awards Pictures

List of Winners

Once Again, YOUR Support Made It Great:

Thanks to Our Hole and Door Prize Sponsors!

     The 2008 New Mexico Facility Managers Network Scholarship Golf Tournament was graciously underwritten by Platinum JB Henderson Construction Company and Silver Sponsors: SMI Facility Services, Wal Mart, and.  Voss Lighting sponsored the hole-in-one contest again this year.

Rounding out the sponsorships, these companies purchased holes on the greens:

ABM Janitorial Services

Alvarado Realty

B&D Industries

Bixby Electric

Boyd Engineering Supply Co.

Chaparral Materials, Inc. -

DRB Electric

GCC of America

Industrial Water Engineering, Inc

Johnson Controls Inc.

Kinetic Improvement Inc.

Klinger Constructors, LLC

Kone Elevators Escalators

Pumps & Service

Saniglaze of New Mexico

ServiceMaster by Brown

Servicon Systems, Inc.

Sto Corporation

The Groundskeeper

Western States Fire Protection

In addition to team prizes and trophies, every golfer and golf-helper left after the 14th Annual Tournament with a door prize in tow.  Special thanks to all these companies who supported the event with a take-home gift:

ABM Janitorial

Applied Mechanical

Arbon Equipment Company

Armour Pavement Incorporated

B & D Industries

Bixby Electric Incorporated

Bob's Painting

Cabot Superior Micro Products

Clean Harbors

Clemmons Ace Hardware

Crenshaw Consulting Group

Cricket

Document Technologies

DRB Electric

Engineered Equipment Sales and Testing

Essential Safety Products

Ferguson Supply

Garratt Callahan

GCC of America

Huitt-Zollars

Hyatt Resorts

Jan-Pro Cleaning Services

Johnson Controls

JP Service Company

Klinger Constructors

Kone Elevators and Escalators

Maintenance Service Systems

Masco Builders Cabinet Group

Matheson TriGas

MCS

Mesa Equipment Company

New Mexico Air Filter

New Mexico Facility Managers Network

Pumps and Service

Resource Mfg.

Sandia Resort and Casino

Service Master by Brown

Sherwin Williams Paint

Sparkle Maintenance

Sprint PCS

The Groundskeeper

Thunderbird Harley-Davidson

Thyssen Krupp Elevator

Transcore

Travers Mechanical Services

Voss Lighting

Western States Fire Protection

Message from the President

     Great Going Golf Gang! Another year has passed and the New Mexico Facility Managers Network put together its best effort yet.  I want to personally extend my thanks and appreciation to the efforts of the Board of Directors, the “Golf Gang”, the sponsors, suppliers, NMFMN membership, Isleta Eagle Golf Course staff, and our supporters and guests. Without everyone’s cooperation and participation in the event, we would not have achieved the success that we did.

       It takes a great team to produce great results, and boy, did we do well.  Numbers are still being crunched, but I can assure you that we will have a generous addition to our scholarship endowment at Central New Mexico Community College this year.  You are all to be commended on your tireless efforts, volunteerism and the "Can Do" spirit of cooperation.  

     Special thanks to Carolee Griffin who, as usual, is the driving force to make things happen. Additionally, I would like to recognize the special efforts of Roy Evans, our Webmaster who doubles as  treasurer.  He puts in countless hours of volunteer time to pull together the web pages, player applications, and spreadsheet data for the event.

     Congratulations to all the winners: Championship Trophy Team, Scramble Team winners, and the Hole-in-One winner. Actually, we are all winners when it comes to community involvement and our contributions to the local higher education scholarship programs.  Congrats to all.  I hope everyone enjoyed the day. I certainly did and as a result will create a new category for the trophy process: "Closest to the Snakes."  Ask me how we won hands down in this area.

     We will now take a short breather and get back to our normal program process, and I especially look forward to this year’s "Supplier Night". Remember, this is coming up soon, and we would like to see a much larger participation group.  Only 30 suppliers participated last year, so plan now to make this year’s event another big success. Thank you again to everyone and I hope the rest of the year brings you success in life, your faith, and your business.  God Bless You All as you continue to support our organization.  

Joseph M. Rodriguez CPMM, CFM

Aviation Facilities Manager

Albuquerque International Sunport

P.O. Box 9948 ALBQ. NM 87119-1048

505-244-7787 ofc 505-328-8404 cell

jmrodriguez@cabq.gov

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DEA-442 (03/08)

Santa Fe (July 7, 2007) - Representative Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) recently introduced a landmark bill calling on the federal government to get its house in order by going carbon neutral by 2025. The Udall bill, H.R. 2947, establishes aggressive and achievable energy performance standards for all new and renovated federally-owned and federally-funded buildings. Federally-owned buildings would need to achieve an immediate 60-percent reduction in fossil-fuel energy consumption compared to the regional average for each building type. The bill also calls for declining fossil-fuel consumption in the amount of 70% by 2011, 80 % by 2015, 90% by 2020, and 100% (or carbon neutral) by 2025.

Since building operations, (i.e. heating, lighting, cooling) account for 43% of all US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, about 50% when building construction is included, any talk about addressing global warming and growing GHG emissions must include robust action in the Building Sector. With the federal government being the country's biggest landlord, it has a responsibility to act decisively in this area.

What is unique about the Udall bill is that it casts a wide net over the Building Sector by including all federally-funded buildings built or renovated with 10% or more of federal funds. These buildings would need to achieve a minimum 50% fossil-fuel consumption reduction as called for by The 2030 Challenge issued by Architecture 2030, and adopted by the US Conference of Mayors (USCM), American Institute of Architects (AIA), US Green Building Council (USGBC) and states of Illinois and New Mexico, among others. This reduction standard would also increase over time so that by 2030, if you receive 10 percent or more of federal funds for construction, your building must be designed to be carbon neutral, meaning it would use no fossil-fuel energy to operate.

In his statement on the House floor, Udall said, “This legislation takes up The 2030 Challenge, issued by Ed Mazria of the organization Architecture 2030… Organizations, architects, local governments, and individuals wanting to do their part have all taken up this challenge. The US Conference of Mayors has adopted it for all buildings in all cities. It is time for the federal government to do so as well."

The Udall bill would also extend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (set to expire in 2008) for another five years, and provide adequate tax incentives for those in the private sector who follow the Feds' lead. This would help those cities and states with GHG initiatives meet their reduction targets in the Building Sector. "Many of the tax provisions [in the Energy Policy Act] are not only scheduled to expire in 2008, but in the estimation of many, were also set at amounts too low to spark the level of construction and efficiency improvements needed" to transform the Building Sector, Udall said. The Udall bill would increase the residential tax credit from $2000 to $4500 per unit and the commercial buildings tax deduction from $1.80/sf to $2.75/sf for buildings that meet the 50% energy consumption reduction target. Since the commercial building tax incentive is a deduction and not a credit (worth about $0.30 to $0.40 cents on the dollar) anything less than $2.75/sf will do little to spur a real transformation in this sector.

According to Ed Mazria of Architecture 2030, "The Udall bill is clearly the most comprehensive and important climate change bill working its way through Congress today. It deals with real Building Sector GHG emissions reductions and provides adequate financial incentives for states, cities and counties to make good on their pledge to address global warming."
 

Other important Building Sector bills in Congress of special note include the Clinton/Kerry bill (S 1059) and the Waxman bill (H.R. 2635), which would both require that all new and renovated federal buildings meet The 2030 Challenge targets.

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In an effort to get information to you on the organization’s activities in a timely and technologically contemporary manner we have started a “Yahoo! Email Groups” so you can receive these important email notifications.  We value your support of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network and want to stay in touch with you in order to serve you better and it’s free!

Invitations have be sent out to everyone I have on my email list, to Join the “Yahoo! Email Groups”.  If you did not receive an invitation or need it re-sent please fill out the Update Contact Information Form. 

The group email will be  NMFMN@yahoogroups.com.  Messages will be sent out with the email address NMFMN-owner@yahoogroups.com . Please see that these addresses  does not get blocked by your IT department.  Any messages sent to this address will come to me and I will forward them to the appropriate person.

Take Care,

Roy Evans

NMFMN Web Master

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Feds: Carbon Neutral By 2025

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Intel is hiring a Strategic Contract Manager which is similar to job functions that a property or facility manager would perform.

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From:   Purchasing 
Sent:   Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:05 PM
To:     Rodriguez, Joseph M.; Lozano, Juan M.; Herrera, Steve ; Pollock, Rob ; Garcia, Rudy P.; Gray, Terry W.; Saavedra, Vince ; Listy, Andrew ; Burnham, Kenneth

Subject:        FW: City of Albuquerque New Procurement on-line Quote Requirement

In order to comply with the City of Albuquerque's new purchasing procedures all non contract procurements of $10,000 or less must be quoted on the following on-line procurement site.

Please register your Company's name and establish and account. The Aviation Department will not be able to solicit verbal, faxed or e-mail quotes any longer. All quotes will be solicited through this new procurement site.

The City of Albuquerque has issued online a Request for Quote (procurements of $10,000 or less) which you may be interested in.

Registration is required to view and respond to quotes.  Registration is free.

Please follow the link below:

https://basec.sicomm.net/register/corpInfo.html?partner=Albuquerque

If you are interested in being notified of Request for Bids (RFBs) and Request for Proposals (RFPs) please click on the link below:

http://www.cabq.gov/vendor/regisinfo.html

Thank you for your interest in doing business with the City of Albuquerque.

Tony Gurule
Facilities Maintenance Coordinator
Aviation Department, City of Albuquerque
Office: 244-7871
Cell: 250-2417
 

Supplier Directory

Updated 11/16/07

The New Mexico Facility Managers Network is over one-hundred member companies strong.  In these ranks are some of the most esteemed and responsible suppliers to the people who make it look easy to keep their buildings up and running.

     Board member Mary Anne Giangola and supplier member Shannon Deterding from the Improve Group have compiled the “First Source Supplier Directory” to make access to the companies that support the organization easy.  Each member listing provides a detailed description of the services that the supplier offers, along with contact information.

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 Information NOW!

In an effort to get information to you on the organization’s activities in a timely and technologically contemporary manner we have started a “Yahoo! Email Groups” so you can receive these important email notifications.  We value your support of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network and want to stay in touch with you in order to serve you better and it’s free!

Invitations have be sent out to everyone I have on my email list to Join the “Yahoo! Email Groups”.  If you did not receive an invitation or need it re-sent please fill out the Update Contact Information Form. 

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Take Care,

Roy Evans

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