by Todd Taintor, Golf Committee Co-Chair Celebrating our 25th anniversary, this year’s Mike Bradley Memorial IFMA Foundation Golf Tournament was another huge success thanks to our membership, sponsors, participants, and volunteers. The primary purpose of our annual golf tournament is to provide an opportunity to network and have fun while raising scholarship funding for future [...]
On March 16th, the GTC of IFMA held a kick off the 2023 NCAA March Madness to raise funds for the Boys and Girls Club of Wake County. Congratulations to Piedmont Service Group for coming in first and second in the cornhole tournament with these dynamite tossers: Jack Davis, Austin Marx, Dillon Gleason, and Tyler Holmes. Thank you to all of [...]
The GTC of IFMA held its Annual Chapter Appreciation event at the Angus Barn Pavilion on Thursday, November 10th! We had over 150 attendees and honored the below members and companies with the 2022 Annual Awards: Associate Member - Holly Bowers– Roofwerks Rookie of the Year - Joe Pattison– Messer Construction Committee Member - Cory Barns– [...]
At the most recent World Workplace in Nashville, Tennessee, IFMA recognized the stand-out achievements of both individuals and chapters with the annual Awards of Excellence. Awards of Excellence nominees are scored individually across a variety of category-specific criteria by judging panels comprised of industry experts. In addition to recognizing exceptional contributions to the association [...]
Thank you, Anna Javellana, for speaking with our chapter for our August 10th luncheon. In facilities management, it is easy to go down a rabbit hole and become distracted by the next “emergency” at our site. Anna shared some insights to help us take ownership of OUR time boundaries and learn to manage distractions to [...]
It's that time of the year when IFMA chapters are turning over the board positions. The IFMA Greater Triangle Chapter held our annual swearing-in ceremony complete with a State of the Chapter presentation on Wednesday, July 20th! The work the team has planned for the 2022-2023 fiscal year will only further support the goal of being the [...]
The GTC of IFMA Community Outreach Committee pulled off another successful Ronald McDonald House Charities volunteer event on Thursday, June 9th. A huge shout out to Cory Barns for monitoring the smoker. Thanks to Dave Smith, Michele Lowery, Holly Bowers, David Sielaty, Travis Dodson, Kellie Renzi, and Darcy, the Therapy Dog, for coming out! Not only did [...]
by Tanya Blankenship Facility Fusion was held in Austin, TX from April 26th – 28th. The theme running through this year’s presentations was sustainability. Specifically, how do we as FMs not only make our buildings more energy efficient and net-positive, but ‘walk the walk’ by insisting on sustainable practices in everything from vendor and materials [...]
GTC OF IFMA MIKE BRADLEY MEMORIAL IFMA FOUNDATION 2022 GOLF TOURNAMENT RECAP by Todd Taintor, Golf Committee Co-Chair This year’s Mike Bradley Memorial IFMA Foundation Golf Tournament was another huge success thanks to our membership, sponsors, participants and volunteers. The primary purpose of our annual golf tournament is to provide an opportunity to network and [...]
What an exciting weekend of college basketball! The Greater Triangle Chapter of IFMA kicked off March Madness with a cornhole tournament and game-watching party on Thursday, March 17th. The real winners of this event were the Boys & Girls Club of Wake County. Chapter members raised over $2,000 to donate to this great cause. Thank [...]
McDonald York enjoyed hosting and sponsoring February’s tour for IFMA’s Greater Triangle Chapter at their construction site for a future Ligand Facility. The space is located at 1035 Swabia Court in Durham and is being constructed in a 2nd generation single story multi-tenant building owned and managed by Longfellow Real Estate Partners. The project consists [...]
We had a fantastic time shopping with the Marines from Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the Community Outreach Committee from the IFMA Greater Triangle Chapter. The chapter raised over $1600 to purchase gifts for kids in our community. A special thank you to Roofwerks, Red Coats, Inc., and RestorePro Reconstruction for the assist on the overage (it's hard to [...]
I was honored to have the privilege of being the emcee for our annual IFMA Greater Triangle Chapter Appreciation Event. Not only did we take this opportunity to recognize chapter members, the veterans in attendance, and sponsors who give so much to our chapter. We were also able to give back to our community through Marine Toys for [...]
From October 26 – 28, 2021, the annual IFMA World Workplace was held in Kissimmee, Florida. Believe it or not, this was the first time that some of our members saw each other face to face for the first time. The conference began with Facility Tours and some housekeeping items with the Annual House of [...]