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Put it on your Calendar!  Friday morning, July 17th, 2009 is the 15th Annual NMFMN Golf Tourney and Scholarship Drive at the be0autiful Isleta Eagle Championship Golf Course.

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15th Annual NMFMN Golf Tourney and Scholarship Drive at the beautiful Isleta Eagle Championship Golf Course.

July 17th 2009

2009 PLAYER'S REGISTRATION FORM

2009 SCHOLARSHIP HOLE PLEDGE FORM

Go for the Gold:  15^th Annual Scholarship

Golf Tournament Stills Needs Players

     With three gold-level sponsors—Facility Solutions Group and The Hawkins Group,  anticipation is building for the New Mexico Facility Managers Network Scholarship Golf Tournament on Friday morning, July 17^th, at the beautiful Isleta Eagle Championship Golf Course, with  7:30 am range balls and an 8:30 am tee-time. If your company has not pledged their support, there is still time!

     Adding to the excitement, Voss Lighting will again sponsor the hole-in-one contest and the pledges of door prize donations are accumulating.  Ask anyone who has participated in this event:  it is the best-run, most prize-filled networking experience for the people who manage our facilities and the suppliers who support them.

     This annual fundraiser is the primary source of funding for scholarships benefitting students pursuing the mechanical trades at both the University of New Mexico and at Central New Mexico Community College.  To date, almost $40,000.00 has been contributed to these academic institutions.

     Two tournaments run simultaneously: players can register for the “scramble” format tournament where NMFMN will pair you in an ABCD player arrangement so that all participants can enjoy the game.  But the trend continues where companies register complete foursomes to compete in the “championship” format, playing for the travelling trophy. Last year all three “9”s were dominated by the golfers who teed off in a shotgun start.

     PLEASE REGISTER TODAY!  Register below or call Executive Director Carolee Griffin at 505-263-2176 for instant registration.     

15th Annual NMFMN Golf Tourney and Scholarship Drive at the beautiful Isleta Eagle Championship Golf Course.

July 17th 2009 

2009 PLAYER'S REGISTRATION FORM

2009 SCHOLARSHIP HOLE PLEDGE FORM

Baseball Another Sold-Out Blast

     Members and guests of the New Mexico Facility Managers Network enjoyed a perfect evening at the Isotopes ballpark, “The Lab”, on June 8^th, 2009. 

    See you again next year!

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July 09 Executive Director’s Column

     With over one hundred golfers already signed in for our 15^th annual Golf Tournament and Scholarship fundraiser, please call me today to let me know that you will on hand bright and early on Friday, July 17^th, at the Isleta Eagle Golf Course to help me register players, collect door prizes, and perform the hundred other small and large tasks which make the event run smoothly.  Even if you are not playing, your help is appreciated and necessary.

     I especially need more door prize donations to make the event even more special.  You and your company will receive notice in the newsletter, on the website, and at the tournament for your generosity.  If you have company-logoed anything—hats, mugs, pens—bring them with you on the day of the party.  Better still, remember that we LOVE dinners for two, anything golf-related, tools, gift certificates, wine, etc.  Bring your donation (plastered with your business cards) with you that morning, or call me and I will arrange to get the goodies picked up.

     The New Mexico Facility Managers Network golf tournament is known for the dozens of door prizes we give away during the luncheon, post-event.  Please be generous and help me make this one another record-setter.  If you have not signed up to participate, it is not too late.  Visit the website at www.nmfmn.com to play or all me at 505-263-2176 cell or email me at carolee@nmfmn.com to let us know how you will support this worthy cause this year.  

15th Annual NMFMN Golf Tourney and Scholarship Drive at the beautiful Isleta Eagle Championship Golf Course.

July 17th 2009 

2009 PLAYER'S REGISTRATION FORM

2009 SCHOLARSHIP HOLE PLEDGE FORM

NMFMN Suppliers: Plan Now

To Support October’s Trade Show

     Still in the planning stages but back by popular demand, the New Mexico Facility Managers Network will host a mini-trade show beginning at noon on Friday, October 30, 2009, at a location to be announced soon.  Here is the chance for suppliers to showcase the products and services that enable facility professionals to efficiently manage their buildings.

     Also invited to swell the ranks at the event are facility manager members of the New Mexico Society for Healthcare Engineering (NMSHE), the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA).

     Each participating supplier must agree to donate a door prize valued at $100.00 or more in exchange for table space at the show.  Facility managers only are eligible for these prizes but suppliers will be permitted to collect business cards from the attendees in exchange for their participation.  Facility managers should come armed with multiple business cards to be eligible for the multiple drawings.

     The usual cost for refreshments--$35.00 for members, $40.00 for non-members—will be charged.  Need for information on this special event?  Email carolee@nmfmn.com

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Facility Engineers, Managers, and Owners:

Plan NOW to Receive Recognition for Your

Energy Management Achievements

     Are you a facility management professional who has instituted initiatives in your buildings which support smart energy usage?  Would you like recognition from your peers and a platform from which to share your experiences? Then  plan ahead to play a role at a dinner meeting on Wednesday, September 16^th, 2009 with the New Mexico Facility Managers Network in conjunction with the New Mexico Association of  Energy Engineers (NMAEE) and the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) to receive the acknowledgement and professional acclaim that you deserve.  

     Beyond NMFMN, NMAEE, and ASHRAE, members of the New Mexico Society for Healthcare Engineering (NMSHE), Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA), and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) are also encouraged to have their membership submit nominations for recognition.

     Categories will include Energy Executive of the Year, Energy Champion award, Energy Leadership award, Energy Manager of the Year, Leadership in Green Sustainable Buildings, Corporate Energy Management award, Renewable Energy Project of the Year, Energy Project of the Year, Green Sustainable Building Professional of the Year, Corporate Energy Management, Energy Engineer of the Year, and Energy Professional Development award. 

     Not quite sure which category best fits your project, or you?  Consultation from the NMAEE executive awards committee will help you shape up your quest.  Please submit your nominations to jackmcgowan@energyctrl.com for consideration by Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

NMFMN Facility Managers:  Plan Ahead to Attend an Informative Green Building Meeting

International Facility Managers Association’s

Spring Conference: Managing a Facility’s Operational Bottom Line
 
When: Friday, May 15, 2009
Location: Albuquerque, NM;  specific location TBD
Time:
* Registration: 7:45am - 8:30 am
* Conference: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Keynote address:
* "Will Facilities Be Ready to Meet Tomorrow's Challenges?" with Patrick Okamura, Facility Manager, CFM, CSS, CIAQM, LEED AP,  Facilities Operations, General Dynamics C4 Systems, Phoenix, AZ.
Other sessions:
* Maximizing energy efficiency in existing buildings
* CMMS: energy management tools and resources for facility managers
* The future of hydrogen fuel cells in commercial building applications
* Recycling for sustainability
* New Mexico Energy Conservation and Management Division, NM Energy
Minerals & Natural Resources Dept, new LEED website & tools for facility
managers
CEU's:
* 6.5 IACET approved CEU's will be offered for conference attendees
Cost:
* $85 members (IFMA, NMFMN, BOMA, NMSHE), $100 non-members. This includes
conference registration, lunch, morning/afternoon snacks.
 Registration deadline: Wednesday, May 6, 2009
 
More information to come! Questions?  Contact  Mary Gauer, Senior Project Manager, UNM Office of Capital Projects, at mgauer@unm.edu.

Architecture 2030 E-News Bulletin
1. Feds: Carbon Neutral by 2025

Feds: Carbon Neutral By 2025
 

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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Golf Tourney

Isotopes Pictures Summery

Executive Director’s Column

Trade Show

Energy Management Achievements

Informative Green Building Meeting

Feds: Carbon Neutral By 2025

 Newsletter Changes

Partial List of Programs

and Incentives to Assist Local

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The University of New Mexico Foundation
Annual Endowment Report

Wanted:  Volunteers to Make the NMFMN Organization Excel

     The New Mexico Facility Managers Network needs you!  The Board of Directors is looking for good-hearted people who wish to volunteer for positions on our steering committee, the Board, and to help guide us towards which programs should be presented to the general membership at the meetings throughout the year in 2010. 

     Make a difference in your professional development and a personal contribution to our organization:  decide NOW to give a small amount of your time to help us ultimately support our scholarship funds at the University of New Mexico and at the Central New Mexico Community College.

    Do you have questions?  Call or email your favorite board member, or contact the Executive Director, Carolee Griffin, at carolee@nmfmn.com for details.

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City Of Albuquerque

HVAC CONTROL SPECIALIST
 

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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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NMFMN Yahoo!

 Email Groups

Update Your Contact

 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. 

The group email will be  NMFMN@yahoogroups.com.  The web site where you can join up is

http://finance.groups

.yahoo.com/group/NMFMN/.  

Messages will be sent out with the email address NMFMN-owner@yahoogroups.com . Please see that these addresses  do 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

royevans@royevans.com

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