Silicon Valley Chapter 39 www.afe39.org April 2013 $6 plus S&H FACILITIES ENGINEERING ® Silicon Valley Chapter Mission Statement: To strengthen and grow the Silicon Valley Facilities community, by providing cutting-edge educational events, professional certification, training, and a network of industry professionals to promote and enhance the careers of our members. Continued on page 2 Day with a Facilities Professional at Linkedin on May 3 The DWFP planning team had a walk through at Linkedin in April and things are coming to- gether. It is interesting that the responsibilities of a “facility professional” are different at different companies. At Linkedin, the Facilities depart- ment includes: • Project Management • Design • Engineering • Health & Safety • Food & Health • Upper Management One returning host, Facilities Manager Paul Sossa- man of Los Altos Golf and Country Club said he is interested in hosting a student in construction management because he has a $14 million reno- vation going on. That should be a very interesting afternoon of job shadowing! Bob Dills of Western Allied Mechanical and his as- sociate Daniel Wong are on board again. Daniel said he had participated as a student for five years and after graduating, has participated as a profes- sional host since 2004. It is a real tradition for him and for Bob, who is a Past President of AFE SV. Thank You Debbie For the sixth year in a row, the important role of matching of students with hosts is in the capable hands of Debbie Gary, Marketing Manager of Ap- plied Power Technologies. Debbie and her associ- ate Rachel Ladd are also acting as liaisons between students and hosts, assembling all of the bios and resumes, and formatting them for the flash drives that will be distributed to all participants on the day of the event. As DWFP Co-chairs, Stan Na- kaso and I are extremely grateful to Debbie and Rachel and everyone at Applied Power Technolo- gies for their support of this event for yet another year. It is a lot of work and it is truly appreciated! If you have not yet registered, please visit www. AFE39.org and click on events. From there you will find information for students and for hosts for Day with a Facilities Professional. If you are ready to sign up, visit our online registra- tion site at www.acteva.com/go/afe_silicon_valley. Thanks to all who are supporting this event now in its 51st year. Agenda: 11 –11:30 am Registration for students and hosts 11:30 –1 pm Welcome Presentations and Lunch 1–5 pm Students & hosts go to respective sites 4:30 pm Networking Warm Up/Resumé Review for Early Returnees 5– 5:30 pm Registration/Networking 5:45 pm Dinner 6:30 – 7:30 pm Panel Discussion on Careers in Facility Management 7:30 – 7:45 pm Q&A and Closing Announcements Students are required to submit a student resumé and short “statement of interest,” examples are posted at: http://www.afe39.org/events/dwfp2013/ student-dwfp2013/ AFE Silicon Valley Chapter Presents Day with a Facilities Professional at 2025 Stierlin Ct., Bldg 3 – 2nd Floor Unite Conf. Rm., Mountain View Park: Behind Building 7 Cost: Host and Sponsor one student: $100 Sponsor additional students: $50 each Evening Program Only: $35 Members/ $40 Non-Members Students: $5 May 3, 2013 Register Online www.afe39.org/ events/dwfp2013/ Day with a Facilities Professional begins and ends at Linkedin, 2025 Stierlin Ct., Mountain View. Parking will be tight so carpool- ing is recommended. Look for space behind building 7 (2019 Stierlin Ct.) Park Behind Bldg 7
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Silicon Valley Chapter 39 www.afe39.org April 2013 $6 plus S&H
FACILITIES ENGINEERING®Silicon Valley Chapter Mission Statement: To strengthen and grow the Silicon Valley Facilities community, by providing cutting-edge educational events, professional certification, training, and a network of industry professionals to promote and enhance the careers of our members.
Continued on page 2
Day with a Facilities Professional at Linkedin on May 3
The DWFP planning team had a walk through at Linkedin in April and things are coming to-gether.
It is interesting that the responsibilities of a “facility professional” are different at different companies. At Linkedin, the Facilities depart-ment includes:
One returning host, Facilities Manager Paul Sossa-man of Los Altos Golf and Country Club said he is interested in hosting a student in construction management because he has a $14 million reno-vation going on. That should be a very interesting afternoon of job shadowing!
Bob Dills of Western Allied Mechanical and his as-sociate Daniel Wong are on board again. Daniel said he had participated as a student for five years and after graduating, has participated as a profes-sional host since 2004. It is a real tradition for him and for Bob, who is a Past President of AFE SV.
Thank You DebbieFor the sixth year in a row, the important role of matching of students with hosts is in the capable hands of Debbie Gary, Marketing Manager of Ap-plied Power Technologies. Debbie and her associ-ate Rachel Ladd are also acting as liaisons between students and hosts, assembling all of the bios and resumes, and formatting them for the flash drives that will be distributed to all participants on the day of the event. As DWFP Co-chairs, Stan Na-kaso and I are extremely grateful to Debbie and Rachel and everyone at Applied Power Technolo-gies for their support of this event for yet another year. It is a lot of work and it is truly appreciated!
If you have not yet registered, please visit www.AFE39.org and click on events. From there you will find information for students and for hosts for Day with a Facilities Professional.
If you are ready to sign up, visit our online registra-tion site at www.acteva.com/go/afe_silicon_valley.
Thanks to all who are supporting this event now in its 51st year.
Agenda:11 –11:30 am Registration for students and hosts
11:30 –1 pm Welcome Presentations and Lunch
1–5 pm Students & hosts go to respective sites
4:30 pm Networking Warm Up/Resumé Review for Early Returnees
5– 5:30 pm Registration/Networking
5:45 pm Dinner
6:30 – 7:30 pm Panel Discussion on Careers in Facility Management
7:30 – 7:45 pm Q&A and Closing Announcements
Students are required to submit a student resumé and short “statement of interest,” examples are posted at: http://www.afe39.org/events/dwfp2013/student-dwfp2013/
Cost:Host and Sponsor one student: $100Sponsor additional students: $50 each
Evening Program Only: $35 Members/ $40 Non-Members
Students: $5
May 3, 2013Register Online www.afe39.org/events/dwfp2013/
Day with a Facilities Professional begins and ends at Linkedin, 2025 Stierlin Ct., Mountain View. Parking will be tight so carpool-ing is recommended. Look for space behind building 7 (2019 Stierlin Ct.)
Park Behind Bldg 7
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From the President’s Desk
Focus on the Young By Raffy Espiritu FMP, President, AFE Silicon Valley
Spring is here which brings into focus the young professional’s role in re-stocking the dwindling roles of facility professionals in the built environment space.
In the recently concluded Facili-ty Fusion conference held in Los Angeles, it became clear that the facility profession is heav-ily dominated by an aging group of facility professionals who are over the age of 45. With the ex-panding universe of facilities and the growing complexity of man-aging the built environment, the specter of a huge disconnect between supply and demand for qualified manpower was raised and rightly so.
In this regard, AFE Silicon Val-ley is unique in the sense that it had this foresight over a de-cade ago on how to correct this imbalance when it launched a program called “Day with a Fa-cilities Professional” where stu-dents from prominent universi-ties like Santa Clara University, San Jose University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Cal Maritime Academy attend a half day event of “shadowing” a facility profes-sional followed by a panel dis-cussion with facility profession-als who have made a difference in managing facilities in Silicon Valley.
Some of the students who have attended this event in years past have assumed prominent roles in the facility field as Facility Managers, Building Engineers, Architects, General Contrac-tors, Commissioning Agents and related occupations. Some of the more recent new attendees landed as interns with major corporations getting an initial taste of the exciting world of fa-cilities often leading to a job of-fer after the student graduates.
For this year, the chapter will hold the Day With a Facilities Professional event at the Linke-dIn campus with the Senior Fa-cility Manager Adony Beniares acting as its gracious host. Ad-ony will also be a member of the panel of discussants to include Barbara Donaldson of Synop-sis, Patrick Crowley of the San Jose International Airport, Andy Taylor of APT, George Denise of Cushman & Wakefield at Adobe, an ardent supporter of the pro-gram, will be the panel modera-tor. See page 3 for information on all members of the panel.
The Silicon Valley chapters of IFMA and BOMA are solicit-ing their respective members to act as hosts to the students. The program will start with net-working and lunch from 11 am
to 1 pm, an off-site shadowing from 1–5 pm and final network-ing and panel discussion from 5–6:30 pm followed by dinner and a panel discussion.
If you love the profession and recognize the value of encour-aging the young people to be interested in the facility pro-fession, here is your chance to show your passion by acting as a host or come and enjoy the panel discussion. Check the de-tails on the AFE website about this event at www.afe39.org/events/.
I look forward to seeing you at Linkedin on May 3rd.
Sincerely,Raffy Espiritu, President AFE Silicon Valley Chapter
Raffy Espiritu, AFE Silicon Valley Chapter President, is also President and CEO of the Impec Group in Santa Clara, 408-330-9350, [email protected]
In this IssueDay with a Facilities Professional . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 & 3
Hosts are asked to provide a one-page bio and an overview of their company. Examples are also available online at http://www.afe39.org/events/dwfp2013/host-dwfp2013/.
This information will be distributed to all partici-pants on a flash drive on the day of the event.
All of the details are available on the Chapter’s website, www.AFE39.org.
View a video of last year’s event at http://www.bu-kaymedia.com/videos/AFE/DWFP-2012/DWFP-2012.htm
Register today!
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Day with a Facilities Professional Panel AnnouncedAs co-chairs of Day with a Facilities Professional 2013, Stan Nakaso and Carole Lucido are pleased to introduce an impressive panel for the evening portion of this year’s DWFP event on May 3. We are honored to include leaders in our field who have interesting career paths as well as stories and advice to share with students and profession-als alike.
Side Note: If you cannot spare time during the day to participate in DWFP, you are welcome to attend just the dinner and panel discussion portion. Register online, you will find the option for this is at the bottom.
Moderator:George Denise, Sr.Managing Director CIS/Account Management for Cushman & Wakefield at Adobe Systems. Mr. Denise is responsible for providing facility management services for Adobe’s portfolio of
42 sites in 31 countries totaling 3 million sq ft and a staff of 130. As an advocate for energy
conservation, sustainability, and operating efficiency in buildings, Mr. Denise has been instrumental in achieving 23 LEED certifications, 17 at the platinum level through the U.S. Green Building Council. Mr. Denise graduated from San Francisco State University.Accreditaions: CFM, CPM, FMA, RPA, LEED Ac-credited Professional
Patrick Crowley, Acting Deputy Director for Facilities and Engineering in charge of all trades and SLA contracts in support of the day-to-day functions for the Facilities Di-vision for the San Jose Inter-national Airport Department. A BSME graduate of San Jose
State in 1992, Mr. Crowley has a long tenure with the City of San Jose. He manages a budget of $25 million, which supports the 1050-acre airfield, ter-minals and support buildings (3.2 million sq. ft.) and 61 FTE in-house staff with support from 47
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Reinhard’s Code Corner #95
Good QuestionsAs some of us fly off to Dallas for the 2015 Code Hearings, there are some groups conducting active code classes in California. The Fire and Building Codes are of particu-lar interest since they have changed format and Chapter numbers.
All cities are now getting ready to write local amendments. These lo-cal amendments can only be more stringent than the base code, so GET INVOLVED! Contact your lo-cal AHJ and find out what the plans are for local changes and get on the committee before the issues go to City Council.
Some interesting questions were posed by members since our last printing...
Question #1: What exactly is a Control Area and how do I know if I have one? We have just relocated from Southern California and were told we need our own Control Area.Control Areas have been a Fire and Building Code provi-sion for many years. The Control Area concept was devel-oped to allow building owners, designers and occupants to store and use chemicals in quantities not exceeding the allowable quantities per control area as defined in Chapter 3 of the Building Code.
The Control Area is simply an area bounded by a full one hour occupancy separation that allows each owner to use and store hazardous chemicals.
The Building Code allows up to four control areas per building on the first floor, and a descending amount up to the 10th floor. If by chance there are no designated one-hour fire walls with full required separations, the Building is one single control area by default and the owner or oc-cupant is limited to the Chapter 3 allowable amount of chemicals
Reinhard Hanselka, PE, REA of MW [email protected] the video of Rein-hard’s Code Presentation to the AFEwww.BukayMedia.com/videos/AFE/hanselka/ hanselka.htm
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The Overlooked Save FunctionPart 1 – The unsaved labor input
By Robbie Curry Edited by Profes-sor Ken Williams and Michael Bukay
It was in 1998 when I first
saw what I believe is a common, wasteful practice that is so ac-cepted, it is often considered to be a necessary cost-of-do-ing-business. Here is what hap-pened.
Early one morning a facil-ity maintenance manager ap-proached a temporary laborer and assigned him the task of us-ing a computer word-processor to transpose a handwritten doc-ument and then provide a print-out that would be presented to a high level management team the following morning. After several revisions, corrections, and printouts throughout the day, the manager took the latest printout home to review. Other than a single, misspelled word, he found the document to be perfect.
The following morning the man-ager approached the laborer and asked to be shown where the document had been saved, so that he could make the cor-rection, print the “perfect” document, and proceed to his meeting. The individual, with a sheepish look, asked the man-ager, “You mean, there’s a save-function? I didn’t need to retype that document all those times?”
This story may be difficult to be-lieve, but it did happen. In 1998 computers were far scarcer than today, and many people had not yet embraced the new technology.
Many maintenance facilities, too, have not fully embraced their computers as labor saving tools. They do not use their com-puters to organize, store, and quickly retrieve great amounts of data that their crafts people spend hours or days identifying and locating. This is what I call “The Overlooked Save Func-tion, OSF.”
There is a “fill in your situation” question that I believe is an “acid test” to determine if your main-tenance facility is overlooking the save-function. Here is the question with a sample situation. “How much time does it take your crafts people to find __ the valves that should be closed or opened to isolate steam, and release stored energy from ves-sel T15846_____?
Before looking at the answer, consider the question and then provide what you believe is a reasonable amount of time to identify the valves.
The answer very simply is “zero”, because the valves had been identified in the past by crafts people who required the same information to perform the same work. The safety sec-tion of a “smart-tag”, the place-holder unique to the vessel, would have been previously up-dated to document the valves and their required positions, eliminating the need to waste time researching the valves a second, third, fourth,... time.
If an adequate place-holder isn’t available so that each crafts person’s labor input is saved, your maintenance facility is ex-periencing a cost increase per task in the exact same manner
Patricia L. CallDirector, West Valley CollegeSaratoga, [email protected]
David EsmailiDirector, West Valley CollegeSaratoga, [email protected]
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as the temporary laborer who saved none of his previous work and was required to completely retype the document multiple times. In the case of our tem-porary laborer, each additional document cost 100% of the original.
Maintenance facilities may no longer overlook the save func-tion when they discover that the OSF is really an Overlooked Save “Money” Function.
Join me next for: The Overlooked Save Function, Part 2, “The Simplic-ity of a Smart-Tag.”
IMPEC Lifecycle Built Environment Solutions By Raffy Espritu, CEO
To be effective, one needs to look at the built environment as a lifecycle to be managed from the time the facility was designed to the time of its decommissioning to move on to the next life cycle. We at Impec take this to heart as we aim to provide whatever is needed by the stakeholders to en-sure that the facility is managed in a smart and cost-effective manner. Our teams work closely with owners and their des-ignated representatives, general contractors, architects, com-missioning agents, facility managers and building engineers in developing customized solutions for the built environment.
What is the built environment?It is more than buildings. It is an eco-system of place, process, people and technology.
The built environment is a dynamic process that encompasses the various phases of the life cycle from design to construc-tion onto operations and maintenance to decommissioning. It is a functioning system comprised of many subsystems, pro-cesses, rules and policies.
The built environment is not a stand-alone entity. It is made up of people, living and breathing creatures that have something at stake relative to how it is managed. These stakeholders in-clude the:
Owners – principals who own the facility and make decisions about the investment to build or improve on existing build-ings. Owners include those who lease out the building (shell) to tenants in a NNN lease where the tenant is responsible for the remaining build out, operations and maintenance of the building. The owner may be responsible for the maintenance of the building shell dollar core as well as the assets from the building blueprint to the property line.
Owner’s representatives – those who are designated by the owners to manage the various phases of the lifecycle of the facility
• Architects – in charge of the concept and design elements of the facility
• Commissioning agents – in charge of validating the systems that went into the building
• Construction management firms – in charge of the design and facility assessment
• General contractors and sub-contractors – in charge of the construction of the facility and installation of systems to run the facility
• Facility managers/building managers/building engineers – in charge of the management and operations of the facility
• Facility consultants – in charge of facility assessment and formula-tions of policies and procedures to manage the facility
Building occupants/employees – the workforce consisting of full-time employees and contractors who use the facility as their workplace. Please take note that the safety and productivity of the employees play a vital role in the success of the cor-porations that own the facility and the business that is being housed therein. Safety, comfort and pro-ductivity must also be considered for visitors and clients of the busi-ness occupying the building.
The built environment as under-stood today cannot be dissociated from technology due to its complex nature. Managing the built environ-
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Adony Benaires,Senior Man-ager, Global Real Estate and Facilities at Linkedin. Mr. Benaires is re-
sponsible for Global Real Estate, Facilities and Safety at Linkedin’s 1.5 million square feet of office space in 25+ cities. He is proud of his top-rated global facilities team that performs mainte-nance, food service, space plan-ning, security systems, emergen-cy response and environmental heath and safety. Mr. Benaires is focused on managing hyper growth while enabling groups to adjust their workspace to serve their needs.
He is also responsible for the design of MEP (Mechanical, Elec-trical and Plumbing) systems and sustainability standards and manages construction, remodel-ing, warm shell and ground-up construction projects.
Accreditations:CFM – Certified Facilities Man-ager; CFMJ – Certified Facilities Manager, Japan; LEED Accred-ited Professional; Studying for MCR – Master of Commercial Real Estate
Barbara Donaldson is Vice Presi-dent of Real Estate and Fa-cilities at Syn-opsys, a global
leader in electronic design au-tomation (EDA). In her current role, she manages a worldwide team with responsibility for more than 70 sites in 25 coun-tries. Ms. Donaldson also leads the company’s Business Con-tinuity Plan, managing a team responsible for ensuring world-wide employee well being and business continuity.
In addition to managing an op-erating budget of nearly $100M, Ms. Donaldson’s primary focus at Synopsys is to enhance the company’s competitive advan-tage by providing an exceptional work environment. Under her leadership, Synopsys’ Real Es-tate and Facilities team has achieved EB (Existing Building) LEED Gold for several corpo-rate buildings, Energy Star for the headquarter campus, and LEED status for key sites across the globe. In 2010, Ms. Donald-son proudly represented Syn-opsys as a Silicon Valley YWCA TWIN (Tribute to Women) award recipient. This prestigious award recognizes women who exemplify excellence in execu-tive level positions.
She is an active member of Northern California Chapter of CoreNet, having served as President, Executive Vice Presi-dent, Programs Co-Chair, and most recently as Co-Chair of the Community Reinvestment Committee.
She holds a B.A. in Organiza-tional Development from USF, and an MBA from U.C. Berkeley and Columbia University.Accreditations:
Masters of Corporate Real Es-tate (MCR); Certified Facility Management (CFM)
Andy Taylor, P. E., Partner at Applied Power Technolog ies , is a registered p r o f e s s i o n a l electrical engi-
neer in the State of California. He is a member of IFMA Silicon Valley, past president of the AFE Silicon Valley, and president of the Northern California Plant Engineers (NCPE).
Mr. Taylor has over 25 years of experience in facilities, manu-facturing, and utility engineering. He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Idaho, and a mas-ter’s degree in manufacturing systems engineering from Stan-ford University.
Mr. Taylor has been a registered professional electrical engineer since 1994. His professional background includes nearly a decade at Intel Corporation in various positions in facilities and manufacturing. He chaired Intel’s virtual factory electrical joint engineering team (JET), and was the strategic planning man-ager for Intel Mask Operations.
Prior to Intel, Mr. Taylor was a consulting electrical engineer for Quasar Engineering in Em-eryville and for ABB Impell in San Ramon. Back in Boise, Idaho Mr. Taylor worked for the elec-tric utility Idaho Power Co.
Mr. Taylor is a seasoned profes-sional skilled in both facilities management and manufacturing systems improvement. His flex-ibility and creative approach to problem solving have been for-mally recognized and awarded by clients and employers alike.
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Membership is wide open for Facility engineers, facility manag-ers, building engineers, mainte-nance, or operations personnel.
New Associate/Vendor mem-bers must be approved in or-der to put more emphasis on strengthening the base of re-sources for facility managers and engineers.
Choose Your Category of Membership:Full Member: $235 first year, $205 renewal
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ment is intrinsically related to the use of technology tools without which it would be too costly and chaotic to manage the space, people and process that make up the built environ-ment.
What is Impec’s role in the built environment?Impec delivers a wide range of solutions throughout the built environment lifecycle.
Impec aims to be the leading resource for the owner and its representatives to protect its as-sets, create best value on all as-pects of the process by avoiding risk and containing cost while achieving the safety, comfort and productivity of employees and other building occupants throughout the life of the facility. Recognizing the impact of a well managed facility to the well be-ing and productivity of the em-ployees which constitutes the biggest investment in the built environment, Impec focuses its attention to creating the most cost effective built environment solutions for each client.
Impec self performs most of the core services and work with strategic partners on other spe-cialized competencies.
Specific examples of the role Impec can play in the various phases of the lifecycle are out-lined in the chart, to the right:
Lifecycle Phase Impec’s ServicesDesign for new construction or renovation project
Consulting
Programming of conceptual design and life-cycle costs
Facility condition assessment
Real estate assessmentDesign development Consulting/search for a design teamConstruction documentation
Collect, store and maintain documentation for optimal operations and maintenance of the buildings and grounds
Facility data gathering
Develop and document Operations and Maintenance Policies and Procedures
Selection of appropriate technology tools for Operations and Maintenance.
Construction Provide qualified manpower for the inter-im maintenance of the mechanical systems, provide labor for-going construction and pre-occupancy cleaning
Commissioning Working with or as the owners commis-sioning agent, identify potential installation, testing and performance issues
Operations and Maintenance
Full range of turnkey solutions:Facility staffingGrounds operationsBuilding operations and maintenance servicesStrategic planningEnergy ManagementCustodial and green cleaningGrounds managementProject ManagementSpace managementBackup energy systemsEmergency preparednessBusiness continuiting planning
Decommissioning Consulting for decommissioningActual decomissioning
Impec listens to the client’s requirements and expec-tations and develops customized solutions to its built environment needs.
Integral in Impec’s solutions packaging is proper fa-cility data documentation and development of a ro-bust operations and maintenance system, provision of qualified staffing, installation of appropriate tech-nology tools to ensure reliable tracking of informa-tion and performance, on-going facility assessment and analytics, implementation of a “customer service driven” service delivery system.
Impec is a serious stakeholder of the built environmentIn all its undertakings, Impec underscores the importance of being involved in all the phases of the process of the built environment from the very beginning to the end of its life. Impec will provide proper guidance to our clients as to what tools would be appropriate relative to their needs and the investment they are pre-pared to make. Impec will do its due diligence to be as actively engaged in every phase to the
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Question #2: Is the Toxic Gas Ordinance (TGO) still law?Absolutely yes, in Santa Clara County and many Northern California cities the TGO is law. The Toxic Gas Ordinance (TGO) is a comprehensive standard regulating the storage and use of toxic and highly toxic gases. The California Fire Code and the ICC Model Code have been upgraded in recent editions, incorporating many provisions of the TGO. The additional provisions of the TGO, such as flow limiting orifices, secondary contain-ment and inert – compatible installations and piping, were intended to be extra requirements unique to our urban areas. The TGO in conjunc-tion with the Fire Code is the highest standard of care in the United States.
Therefore, in our Bay Area the Fire Code and the TGO must be followed.
If you have a question on the code, send it to:
Reinhard Hanselka, PE, REA MW [email protected] PO Box 361656, Milpitas, CA 95036
Code CornerContinued from page 4
Save the DateMonday August 5
Second Annual AFE 39 Silicon Valley Golf ClassicSan Jose Country ClubRegistration Information to follow
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Members Helping MembersOne of the goals of the AFE Silicon Valley in 2013 was to recognize the efforts of the volunteers who serve on the board of directors for the chapter. Without their efforts the events and programs for the AFE in the Silicon Valley would not exist. For this reason we urge all members to do business with these dedicated men and women.
If you would like to join the board or serve on a committee and gain recognition like this, please contact Chapter VP James Elder.
AFE SV President Raffy Espiritu, Founder, Pres.& CEO, IMPECGroup, 408-330-9350, [email protected], www.impecgroup.com Impec Group is a one-stop shop for solutions needed by a facility from staffing to full operations and maintenance services that include building maintenance and repair, HVAC, custodial, office services, energy management and related facility solutions.
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AFE Membership Chair Steve Woods (510) 750-0159 [email protected], www.ATIrestoration.com American Technologies, Inc. (ATI) is a restoration, environmental and reconstruction specialty con-tractor. Services include 24-hour emergency services for water, fire and smoke damage, asbestos/lead removal, mold remediation, bio-hazard clean-up, contents clean-ing/storage and reconstruction services.
AFE SV Past President Bob Adamo, 408-370-6080, [email protected]. Technical Builders is a commer-cial general contractor specializ-ing in fast paced technically chal-lenging design-build projects such as clean rooms, biotech & medical
labs, R & D, and corporate offices. Our facilities based expertise de-livers a turnkey, cost effective so-lution for our clients.
Programs Committee Kim Tamayo 510-277-2646 [email protected] Systems is a fully li-censed Fire Alarm Contractor; specializing in commercial appli-cations, office buildings, hospitals, industrial complexes, campuses, hotels, airports and retail prop-erties. Services include Fire/Life Safety system design, engineering, installation, programming, tenant improvements, monitoring, test-ing and UL Certification.
Communications Chair Carole Lucido, [email protected] (925) 947-6080Lucido Marketing & Graphics pro-duces marketing that builds your image in print or on the web. For a sample of our award- winning writing and graphic design work, see lucidomarketing.com, AFE39.org, or this newsletter. We make complex information easy to un-derstand.
New Media Chair Mike Bukay, 510-232-9830, [email protected] produces indus-trial and commercial marketing and training videos for the web. Does your company have a web video strategy? Does your com-pany have a story to tell? Contact us to explore how you can use high quality videos to train your staff and customers; and to mar-ket your products and services.
Program Chair Jennifer Farmer, 408-353-1236, [email protected] 1979, Greenworks - Workplace Finishes Inc. has established a reputation as the premier living plant and flo-ral display purveyor for Silicon Valley corporate campuses and has developed an integral set of core-competencies provid-ing “value-added” benefits in art consulting services, way-finding signage and Holiday displays.
AFE Marketing Chair Michael McCormick, Del Conte’s Landscaping, 510-760-1313,[email protected], www.dclandscaping.com Landscape and Irrigation man-agement, design/construction for the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. Industry leader in Water Management, Diamond certified, Bay Friendly.
Chapter Secretary Linda Fung, Contract Administrator, IMPECGroup, 408-330-9350, [email protected], www.impecgroup.com Impec Group is a one-stop shop for solutions needed by a facility from staff-ing to full operations and main-tenance services that include building maintenance and repair, HVAC, custodial, office services, energy management and related facility solutions.
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AFE Silicon Valley 2013 Event Calendar
VENUE DATE LOCATION SPONSOR
Meeting / Facility Tours:AFE Kick-off Meeting at Linkedin January 9 Linkedin Linkedin and Impec
GroupTour San Jose Airport with BOMA February 13 SJ International
AirportTBD
Open July TBD
Data Center Tour: NetApp August NetApp NetApp
Fenwick & West November TBD
Lunch & Learns:Electric Rate Structures:Where they’re going and what to do about them
Jan. 24 Echelon Echelon
Innovations in High Performance Commercial HVAC Systems
February 28 Fenwick & West Western Allied Mechanical
Hazardous Materials Regulatory Compliance March 28 Texas Instruments Texas Instruments
Transformer Efficiency April 25 BD Biosciences CAPS, PQI
ASHRAE Presentation June One Workplace, Santa Clara
TBD
Reducing Earthquake Hazards July One Workplace, Santa Clara
Degenkolb
Building Control Systems August One Workplace, Santa Clara
Controlco
UL Presentation September One Workplace, Santa Clara
Mixers and Special Events: Day with a Facility Professional May 3 Linkedin Linkedin
Golf Tournament August 5 SJ Country Club TBD
Evening with Industry October SJSU Student Chapters
Holiday Party December TBD
Sponsor Spotlight: Impec Group(Continued from page 10)
extent that it is feasible. The earlier that Impec is part of the process the better as the key elements that go into documentation of facility data and the development of the operations and maintenance systems are formed during the concept and de-
sign, construction and commissioning phases. By doing so, the transition from construction to operations and maintenance would be seamless, eliminating down time that can be costly and time intensive.
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