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Powerful Facility Energy Conference



First Annual Powerful Facility Energy Conference 


The Powerful Facilities Energy Conference, originally scheduled for May 20th will be rescheduled to later in the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Notifications will be sent to members as soon as possible and we look forward to seeing you at the event!
FREE WEBINAR
COVID-19 Series #3: FM Challenges During the Pandemic
Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. CDT
 
IFMA's series of town hall meetings are intended to begin discussions on the challenges faced due to COVID-19, what measures facility managers and other wider built environment professionals have put in place, and ideas and strategies for moving forward.

Join us for IFMA's virtual COVID-19 town hall, focused on cleaning, guidelines/protocols, real estate projects/upgrades, considerations when reopening a facility and other topics pertinent to current concerns. Panelists will address areas of interest to attendees and answer questions posed in the first town hall.


 
Lunch and Learn Recap


IFMA Seattle was happy to welcome  Jamil Aljisar from Glumac, Inc. to present at Boeing's Museum of Flight for our February Lunch & Learn. 

Jamil spoke on the topic of Seattle's Building Tune-Up Program and so much  information was covered the conversations continued all the way into the parking lot after the event! 
Thank you Jamil, Glumac, Museum of Flight and all the attendees for another great Lunch & Learn session!

 Stay safe everyone and we hope to see you at the next one!!

BenchMarking

Benchmarking 101 Video Training Series
 
A complete series of instructional videos is now available to assist building owners and managers that need to comply with the annual benchmarking requirement. The training series demonstrates the benchmarking process from start to finish. Check out the video series here! Or click on a video below.  
  1. Introduction to Benchmarking
  2. Data Collection (Part A): Property Use Data
  3. Data Collection (Part B): Energy Meter Data
  4. Creating a Portfolio Manager Account and Entering Data
  5. Obtaining Data Usage: Seattle City Light
  6. Obtaining Data Usage: Puget Sound Energy
  7. Confirming Energy Use & Submitting Report to City
  8. Understand Results and Create Reports
Benchmarking Report Deadline Extended to July 1st 

As previously communicated, the City of Seattle has extended the annual deadline for benchmarking and reporting of 2019 data to July 1st, 2020. At this time, we do not anticipate a need for an additional extension as work to benchmark your facility in Portfolio Manager can be done remotely. Staff are busy preparing to relaunch the benchmarking compliance portal. We anticipate an announcement early next week to guide you on the use of this online resource. A reminder that our staff and help desk are here to assist you as you benchmark or update your building's annual report.

   
Questions? [email protected] - 206-727-8863 (TUNE)
Building Operator Certification Program

The Building Operator Certification program will be holding a BOC Level I course online. Classes will be held live and feature an interactive format. For more information, please visit www.theboc.info
Important Tool Lending Library Announcement

By Britton Rife on Apr 07, 2020 

In adhering to the COVID-19 stay-at-home order issued by Gov. Inslee in effect through May 4, 2020, the Smart Buildings Center's Tool Lending Library is operating on a limited, remote basis only. We recognize that many facilities are still open for essential businesses (https://coronavirus.wa.gov/whats-open-and-closed/essential-business), and identified specifically as essential in the order are "workers providing, maintaining and repairing heating, cooling, and refrigeration services" for these facilities. As such, we will only fulfill tool requests directly related to critical operations functions of these facilities, or for health/safety needs. When making your reservation, please be specific about how your project meets these criteria. Other requests will remain in the queue until the library resumes full operations.
During this time, we are not fulfilling orders in person but will be shipping all requests, taking precautions to sanitize tool surfaces. We appreciate your efforts to do the same before shipping tools back to us. Our on-site library staff resources are currently limited. Please help us by being patient with the extra time it may take to receive loans, and consider postponing your nonessential tool requests for a date after the library resumes in-person operations.
If you have questions, please email [email protected].
Thank you to building managers, engineers, and operators working to maintain critical building infrastructure that provides space for many essential businesses and services. Your work to ensure continuity of building functions while maintaining safe and healthy conditions for occupants is greatly appreciated!


By Britton Rife on Apr 07, 2020 

In this webinar, held on 3/26/20, Nicole Ballinger, Seattle's Building Tune-up Accelerator Program Manager described the tune-up program, benefits, and best practices discovered through the pilot process. Nora Wang of Pacific Northwest National Lab described the use of the DOE Asset Score tool in building assessments.
Seattle Building Tune-up Accelerator Program highlights and case studies can be found on the City of Seattle's website and the final report will be posted later this spring/early summer.

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