Thursday November 19, 2009 Seminar

Bruce Alexander and Frank Mendez came to present at our Facility & Property Management Seminar. Bruce is the Director of Operations for Millrock park in Holladay, Utah. Frank is the Building Automation Division Manager. They came to inform the students about commissioning, retro-commissioning, re-commissioning, and ongoing commissioning. One major topic that Bruce brought up was that the building engineer should not be looked at as the person who will be able to fix a problem later. There is no good reason to build something poorly with the hopes that the engineer will “fix it” later. Mr. Alexander and Mr. Mendez gave the students a great look at what our students may be going out in the field to do.

Seminar for November 12, 2009

Tim Adams, from ASHE – American Society of Healthcare Engineer - came to BYU to address the Facility & Property Management students today in our weekly seminar. He addressed Life Safety in hospitals and emergency management. Life Safety is critical in a hospital and the code has saved many lives. He brought up the fact that there are COWs in hospitals. COWs stands for computer on wheels. These carts can be a hazard if left in the way of an automatic closing doorway. After the life safety discussion, he talked about emergency management. In that section, Mr. Adams emphasized planning. Plan for everything imaginable and then continue to plan for the unimaginable. Mr. Adams told the students that the Facility Manager is often the person who can make the call, after an emergency, to continue to defend in place or to abandon ship and shut down the hospital facility.

Thursday October 29, 2009 Seminar

Randy Owen, COO of Coldwell Banker Commercial, came to seminar with a terrific presentation. He spoke on the large areas in the real estate field. His main focus seemed to be that the students need to get involved in the many different organizations that are available to us. He listed the organizations that follow; BOMA, IREM, NAIOP, ICSC, IFMA, and CORENET and told the students to use these organizations as a resource to grow and learn from other professionals.
Mr. Owen also talked about the different trade publications that are out there for students and professionals to take advantage of. One thing that the students are very excited about was the pledge to help out the students with trying to find more internship opportunities that are closer to home. The Utah state president of IREM and the up-coming state president were both in attendance and gave their support.

Thursday October 1, 2009 Seminar

John Rutkowski, head of the FM group in Palmyra, NY, came to campus and gave a historical presentation of the LDS sites that he manages in the Palmyra, Waterloo, and upstate NY area. He spoke to the students about documentation being a key factor in the way business is done. He also stressed the importance of know who the owner is and what their needs/wants are for the facilities. The students were very interested and asked several pertinent questions. One topic John made clear was to not only surround yourself with good employees, but to also treat them well! "You are only as good as the people you surround yourself with." said John. His presentation was very informative and valuable to the students.

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