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Sustainability: How Your Short-Term FM Strategies Affect Your Long-Term Goals

Nov. 16, 2006
12:00 p.m. CST
90-minute session
Audio & Web Presentation

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Being prepared for the mergers, acquisitions and consolidations that can occur during an organization’s life cycle will ease space-planning challenges and enable your company to develop strategies that carry over to future projects for the long-term.

Learn how to create a short-term FM strategy that will extend to future projects, including the pros and cons of outsourcing versus handling your needs in house. Explore the necessary elements of an effective FM plan. Understand how to gather the most accurate data and information to make important strategic decisions regarding the proper distribution of physical assets.

.15 CEUs 1 CFM/FMP Maintenance Point

Speaker:
Barry Lynch, Grogan Associates

Mr. Lynch is a Senior Project Manager for Grogan Associates and specializes in facility strategy and project management. Mr. Lynch’s Strategic Facility Planning Clients have included Pepsi, Shaw Industries, CenterPoint Human Services, Southern Community Bank, Hancock Bank, E-Federal Credit Union and Pelican State Credit Union.

Mr. Lynch worked as Senior Architect at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (now Reynolds American) where his primary responsibility was planning the moves of employees out of 450,000 sq. ft. of leased space into company owned space. Total moves planned and managed averaged 2,000 per year for six years. Renovation and new construction totaled $93 million in current dollars. Net lease savings from terminations was $29 million. He developed a strategic plan for corporate real estate totaling 17 million sq. ft. (364 buildings). Mr. Lynch also developed a strategic compliance plan for safety and environmental regulations that minimized capital expenditures and held staff levels even in the face of dramatically increased regulations.

As an architect with Gensler and Associates, one of the nation’s largest architectural firm, Mr. Lynch performed asset consulting and strategic facility planning for 20 million sq. ft. of space

• IFMA Fellow
• Published Writer
• Certified Facility Manager (CFM),
• Chapter President 1995-1996,
• Chapter Executive Committee 1996-2002,
• National Research Committee member 2000,
• International Education Committee Member 2004-2005.