What a fantastic June 2025 meeting at Prestonwood Country Club. The Facilities Management discussion panel was a success, with many insights into the current local pulse and challenges. Thank you to Travis Dodson for moderating, and our distinguished colleagues David Seilaty, Tanya Blankenship, and Ethan Tecklenberg for participating on the FM panel. Golf Commitee [...]
by Todd Taintor, Golf Committee Co-Chair Celebrating our 27th year anniversary, this year's Mike Bradley Memorial IFMA Foundation Golf Tournament was another huge succeess thanks to our membership, participants, sponsors, volunteers, and Lochmere Golf Club. The primary purpose [...]
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all individuals who joined our Chapter in supporting the Boys and Girls Club of Raleigh! We raised approximately $4,000.00 and while the rain canceled the corn hole tournament and free throw contest, a great time was had by all. Your generosity made the event a [...]
by Todd Taintor, Golf Committee Co-Chair Celebrating our 26-year anniversary, the 2024 Mike Bradley Memorial IFMA Foundation Golf Tournament was another huge success thanks to our membership, participants, volunteers and Lochmere Golf Club (thank you for the 12pm start)! The primary purpose of our annual golf tournament is to provide the opportunity to network [...]
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 [...]