Joe Pearson Sworn in as Secretary

Joe Pearson was sworn in at the December meeting as the new Secretary of IFMA Atlanta.  Joe is an Assistant Director at EY (Ernst & Young) and oversees the daily operations for the Atlanta and Alpharetta offices comprised of over 3,000 people. Prior to joining EY, Joe worked in Records Management and Conflicts/New Business Intake…

Details

Sustainability Corner – January 2016

Upcoming local events: Southface Check the Southface Calendar for education opportunities. USGBC High Performance Healthy Schools Leadership Recognition Luncheon When: 03 Feb 2016, 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM Location: Georgia State Capitol – Floyd Room, James H. “Sloppy” Floyd Building, 20th Floor of the West Tower, 200 Piedmont Ave SE, Atlanta, GA Urban Green Urban…

Details

KSU Corner – January 2016

The Construction Management (CM) Department at KSU is proud to announce that Facility Management students Ron Jones and Devon Vance have graduated from our program. Ron and Devon received their degrees at the first fully consolidated commencement exercise on the KSU campus on December 15, 2015. The KSU College of Continuing and Professional Education has…

Details

Georgia Tech Corner – January 2016

Georgia Tech was again honored this year to have a Master’s student receive the Atlanta Chapter Scholarship at World Workplace 2015.  Chaehee Han, graduating student this semester, received the scholarship in October at the Education Reception at the conference in Denver.  As the scholarship winner, she received not only the money, but a full World…

Details

Food for Thought

On a previous job, I had a supervisor with a very cultured childhood and a passion for food.  Once a week the office would go to a new restaurant to try a new cuisine.  We ate Thai, Indian, Mediterranean, Egyptian, Australian, Chinese, Russian, American, Mexican and everything in between. Our supervisor encouraged us to order…

Details

IFMA’s Advocacy Day in Washington

Michael Rice’s parting blog with Cresa Atlanta documents IFMA’s Advocacy Day in Washington earlier this year. Reading the blog, you might learn some new (distressful?) statistics. For example, did you know that the US Federal Government is the largest landowner in the world with over 500,000 buildings. Unfortunately, nearly 14,000 of those buildings are believed to…

Details