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Microsoft Site Tour: Recap

April 1, 2019 By SBC

On March 14th, the Smart Buildings Center and the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA) Seattle Chapter co-hosted a tour of one of Microsoft’s newer buildings in the Redmond campus, with a focus on creating a workplace environment that cultivates collaboration, creativity, and thoughtfully designed spaces that enhance employee experience and productivity.  In addition, attendees were able to tour the Tree Houses, a set of amazing outdoor meeting and conference rooms, where one can be with nature while at work.

We want to thank IFMA, Microsoft and CBRE for putting together an educational and insightful event.  Check out the photo’s below and stay tuned for more upcoming tours this year!

An atrium allows for more visibility to the various floors in the building and features interesting art and architecture
Many Microsoft buildings feature a self-checkout snack bar with customized snacks based on preferences
Comfy Zone technology allows for users in the space to access an app to choose their comfort level
There are numerous areas around the campus that provide opportunities for collaboration and conversation that might not otherwise take place
Three tree houses outside of the building offer opportunities for Microsoft employees to take a break or get inspired by the outdoors

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Energy Benchmarking 101: Learn how to benchmark your building

April 1, 2019 By SBC

The City of Seattle and the Smart Buildings Center are offering two free Energy Benchmarking 101 trainings for participants that are new to the energy benchmarking process.

The workshop is an opportunity for owners and property managers to learn the basics of how to benchmark a building from start to finish. This training is also beneficial for those less familiar with benchmarking as it will give participants grounding in the benchmarking process, i.e. the multiple steps, the common pitfalls, as well as ways to confirm compliance and receive assistance via the help desk.

Date and Time

Thu, April 11, 2019

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Location

Smart Buildings Center

1200 12th Ave S

Suite 110

Seattle, WA 98144

REGISTER HERE

 

 

 

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Smart Buildings Center Technical Webinar Series

April 1, 2019 By SBC

The Smart Buildings Center now offers live instructional webinars throughout the year to keep you informed on the dynamic field of facilities management. Learn practical solutions to deal with the energy hogs in your building from industry experts. The 2019 webinars focus on occupational health and safety practices in buildings, utilize energy management information systems to identify and communicate energy savings opportunities, as well as explore advancements in HVAC and lighting.

For the BOC graduate, successful completion of the webinar and accompanying quiz provides 1.5 points towards maintaining your BOC Certification and .15 IACET CEU’s towards the renewal of industry certifications, certificates and licenses including but not limited to AIA, PE, LEED, IFMA, ASHRAE, and AEE.

Live webinars are held from 2 to 3 p.m. ET. Once broadcast, they are available on demand in recorded format from our webinar library.

Building Tune-Ups In Buildings With A Building Automation System

April 23, 2019

Periodic re-tuning of building controls and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems can help improve the building’s energy efficiency through low cost and no-cost operational improvements. This webinar will discuss the re-tuning approaches of identifying energy efficiency opportunities using a building automation system (BAS).

Speaker: Srinivas Katipamula, PNNL, Staff Scientist

Energy Management Information Systems: How Do You Track and Communicate Savings Over Time

May 15, 2019

Commercial buildings are full of hidden energy savings potential that can be uncovered with the right analysis.  Utilizing a utility bill analysis to energy management information system with fault detection and diagnostics capabilities, this webinar will provide building operators a deeper and faster insight on how to unlock energy efficiency opportunities and how to communicate the energy savings and maintenance costs over time.

Speaker: Brian Hanson, MacDonald Miller, BPG Project Development Manager

 

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IFMA Annual Education Symposium

April 1, 2019 By SBC


THE BUSINESS OF BUILDINGS: INVESTIGATE, DISCOVER, PREDICT
JUNE 19, 2019

Time: 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM
Location: Lynnwood Convention Center
3711 196th Street SW
Lynnwood WA, 98036

Treat yourself to a day of networking and education with your peers! The IFMA Greater Seattle Education Symposium is our chapter’s flagship education event featuring a full day of continuing education sessions on important trends and practices in facility management.

Gifford Pinchot III
This year’s keynote speaker is Gifford Pinchot III, Founder and President Emeritus of “The Bainbridge Graduate Institute”​ which offered the first MBA in Sustainable Business – (Now merged with Presidio Graduate School), who will speak on his theory of “intrapreneurship”

SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION

EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

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Join the SBC on a Microsoft Tour!

March 4, 2019 By SBC

Hosted by the IFMA Seattle Chapter and the Smart Buildings Center, attendees will tour one of the newer buildings on the Microsoft campus during which they will share how Microsoft designs and manages its campus and employee work space (we’ll also see the Tree Houses). Microsoft will share their plans for an extensive campus modernization which will be the most Sustainable, Connected, Accessible and Secure. Microsoft will discuss space utilization in general, the design of their Team Based Space work space. They will review the use of technology on campus that enhance the employee experience like Surface Hubs, and lobby experience. The tour will be an interactive discussion taking place on the Redmond campus.

Space is limited so register now (IFMA member – $40, Non Member – $50).  Questions?  Contact [email protected].

Agenda: 
4:00 – 4:30 pm – Registration
4:30 – 5:30 pm – Tour
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Networking and Appetizers/Drinks

 

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Beyond BIM – Technology Enabled Building Operations

January 8, 2019 By SBC

Join McKinstry and Lean Construction on January 16th to hear an expert panel discuss technology enabled operation of buildings. Topics will include leveraging the Building Information Model after building occupancy, how augmented reality can enhance operations, real-time analytics of building systems, and how IoT will impact buildings and our future.


Speakers:B. Rimes Mortimer – Microsoft- Rimes Mortimer is the General Manager, Applied Innovation team within Microsoft Digital – a newly formed Microsoft organization designed to help customers define and implement their digital transformations. In his role, Mortimer leads a global team specifically focused on creating highly innovative solutions with customers and partners using emerging technologies, like IoT, Blockchain, Machine learning, AI, and Mixed Reality (Hololens) to accelerate new growth areas of opportunity for Microsoft.

Mark King – Autodesk – It’s no secret every construction project is buried in thousands of documents and managing that information is difficult. Come learn how a fresh approach combined with new innovation is helping builders overcome this industry-wide pain so they can perform better, with fewer resources. Brian will take a pragmatic approach to exploring the innovation wave hitting the Construction Industry including sharing tips on sifting through new innovation and best practices for deploying new technology.

John SanGiovanni – John SanGiovanni has more than two decades of experience as an entrepreneur and inventor. John has authored more than 20 patents in the areas of augmented reality, wearable hardware systems, and UI, many of which have subsequently been licensed or purchased by Apple, Microsoft, and others. John will provide an overview of how Virtual and Augmented Reality will transform Facilities/Owner Training in new and impactful ways.

Hendrik Van Hemert – McKinstry – Hendrik Van Hemert oversees PNW technical service offerings for McKinstry. These offerings include active energy management, powerED, M&V. and Issue Management. Hendrik will share how the explosion of data in the operations of the built environment is setting the stage for a digital market transformation. He will outline barriers to faster adoption of technology in facility operations and explain how a dearth of foundational knowledge has limited the impact and scale of smart buildings to date.

Doug Moore – McKinstry – Moderator – Doug Moore is president of McKinstry and will moderate the panel conversation. In his work, Doug is highly engaged in the significant disruption underway that is industrializing the design, delivery and operation of buildings.

For more information and to register, click here.

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