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Cool Facilities Management News images

06
Nov 2011
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Some cool facilities management news images:

Installation Management Command Uncasing Ceremony and Open House
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Image by U.S. Army IMCOM
Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch., Commander, Installation Management Command, will host a flag uncasing ceremony for the U.S. Army Installation Management Command Oct. 5, 2010 at 10 a.m. in San Antonio, Texas.

Dr. Joseph W. Westphal, Under Secretary of the United States Army, will be the guest speaker.
The ceremony represents the presence of the installation management community and the assumption of the command’s authority in San Antonio. The installation management community includes the U.S. Army Installation Management Command Headquarters and two major subordinate commands: U.S. Army Environmental Command and the Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command.

IMCOM temporarily occupies leased space in northeastern San Antonio until the new IMCOM Headquarters Building on Fort Sam Houston is completed in October 2011.

Uncasing the flag exemplifies how IMCOM, headquartered in "Military City USA," is transforming to make Army installations the Army’s Home.

U.S. Army Installation Management Command Organizational Day Festivities

Soldiers, Civilian employees and their Families took a break from their normal, busy work schedules to participate in team building activities and celebrate the recent transition of the IMCOM headquarters to San Antonio, Texas.

To learn more about the move to San Antonio, visit here:
www.army.mil/-news/2010/10/06/46153-headquarters-imcom-mo…

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About the U.S. Army Installation Management Community:

IMCOM handles the day-to-day operations of U.S. Army installations around the globe – We are the Army’s Home. Army installations are communities that provide many of the same types of services expected from any small city. Fire, police, public works, housing, and child-care are just some of the things IMCOM does in Army communities every day. We endeavor to provide a quality of life for Soldiers, Civilians and Families commensurate with their service. Our professional workforce strives to deliver on the commitments of the Army Family Covenant, honor the sacrifices of military Families, and enable the Army Force Generation cycle.

Our Mission: To provide standardized, effective and efficient services, facilities and infrastructure to Soldiers, Civilians and Families for an Army and Nation engaged in persistent conflict.

Our Vision: Army installations are the Department of Defense standard for infrastructure quality and are the provider of consistent, quality services that are a force multiplier in supported organizations’ mission accomplishment, and materially enhance Soldier, Civilian and Family well-being and readiness.

To learn more about IMCOM, visit us online:

IMCOM Official Web Site – www.imcom.army.mil/hq/

Flickr Photostream – www.flickr.com/photos/imcom

YouTube – www.youtube.com/installationmgt

Twitter – www.twitter.com/armyimcom

Facebook – www.facebook.com/InstallationManagementCommunity

Scribd – www.scribd.com/IMCOMPubs

CNN iReport – www.ireport.com/people/HQIMCOMPA/

DoD Live Blog – usarmyimcom.armylive.dodlive.mil/

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British Columbia (NASA, International Space Station, 01/21/11)
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Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
Editor’s Note: Hey Flickr friends, I thought all of you would like this one. The text from NASA goes into some great detail about new methods of photography from the Space Station. Happy weekend!

A test photo of British Columbia’s snow-capped west coast mountains is the first official image taken from the International Space Station’s new Window Observational Research Facility, or WORF.

The image was taken to test the functionality of the control computer and camera associated with EarthKAM, an educational outreach project that allows Earth bound middle school students to take pictures of our home planet from the unique perspective of the space station, 220 miles above the Earth’s surface. WORF was delivered to the station on the STS-131 mission of space shuttle Discovery in April 2010.

EarthKAM uses a Nikon D2X digital camera, and was set up in the WORF by Expedition 26 NASA flight engineer Cady Coleman on Jan. 17. EarthKAM ground controllers took the test photo. Expedition 26 also includes Commander Scott Kelly of NASA, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri and Dmitry Kontratyev.

The test photo, designated ISS EarthKAM Image Winter 2011 #9362, is of an area of British Columbia, Canada, just north of Vancouver Island. The center point of the photo is 51 degrees, 48 minutes north and 127 degrees, 54 minutes west. Visible in the photo are Calvert and Hecate Islands on the Canadian coast and the southern portion of Hunter Island. Also visible are glaciers of the Ha-iltzuk Icefield near the 8,720-foot-tall — 2,658-meter-tall — Mount Somolenko. Mount Somolenko is a volcanic peak in southwestern British Columbia, that lies in a circular volcanic depression in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains called the Silverthrone Caldera.

While this isn’t a particularly unique Earth observation image, it is notable that even though it was taken with a wider angle, 50mm lens and covers an area 124 miles/200 kilometers, by 83 miles/134 kilometers, it can be enlarged by more than 400 percent while keeping features in the photo identifiable. This is made possible by the high-quality optics of the Earth-facing window of the Destiny Laboratory, which was launched on Feb. 7, 2001.

The installation of WORF allowed removal of an internal "scratch pane" that has reduced the quality of images taken though the window. WORF also provides a highly stable mounting platform to hold cameras and sensors rock steady at the window, as well as the power, command, data, and cooling connections needed for their operation.

"With the WORF finally in place we can now for the first time make full use of the investment we made in having an optical quality window onboard the station for Earth science and observation," said former astronaut Mario Runco, who was part of the design and development teams for the Destiny window and WORF, and now serves as NASA’s lead for Spacecraft Window Optics and Window/WORF Utilization at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston.

"We are very excited to have a new camera system that appears to be functional and taking incredible images," said Karen Flammer, who manages EarthKAM operations at the University of California, can Diego. "The first student images were taken by Parkview Montessori in the Jackson-Madison County (Tenn.) School System, and Public School 229 – Dyker in Brooklyn, N.Y., part of the New York City Department of Education.

Parkview teacher Vickie LeCroy’s students plan to study landforms, such as islands, mountains and deserts in the image they took of Mexico, and Dyker teacher Camille Fratantoni’s students plan to enrich their studies of earth science and learn more about NASA missions.

In addition to their educational outreach role with EarthKAM, the combination of the window and WORF adds to the station’s capabilities as an Earth science remote sensing platform for high-resolution cameras and multi and hyperspectral imagers. Images from space have many applications, such as in the study of climate and meteorology; oceanography; geology and volcanology; coastal, agricultural, ranch and forestry management; and disaster assessments and management.

The test image is available in multiple sizes and resolutions, visit:
images.earthkam.ucsd.edu/main.php?g2_itemId=33992

Image credit: NASA

View original image/caption:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/worf.html

More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html

There’s a Flickr group about Space Station Research. Please feel welcome to join! www.flickr.com/groups/stationscience/

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Nice Facilities Management Jobs photos

28
Aug 2011
By admin

A few nice facilities management jobs images I found:

Downtown Champaign: Taking Out of Storage
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Image by grifray
Construction surrounding the deconstruction of municipal lots N and HS (Hill Street). In the late 1960s – early 1970s, the City of Champaign began a multi-million dollar effort to convert the land here to parking lots. Many of the business owners who were located here were removed by condemnation orders of the city, though most settled out of court.
Currently, the city is going through another kind of development, one where the parking lots built during the 60s – 90s are valued as available, and cheap, space for infill construction projects.
As in many cities across the country, many of these projects are attempts to make themselves more attractive to the "creative classes" – those with disposable income and information management jobs.
Lots N and HS have become the site of M2 on Neil, a mixed use facility housing retail, offices and condos. M2 is a million project by the local property development company, One Main. As a construction effort desirable to the city’s redevelopment initiative, the project is receiving not just affordable land, but .5 million in additional financial incentives to complete the building.
One Main is also responsible for the other major urban project in downtown Champaign, just across Neil St. from M2, known as One Main – it’s address.
One Main was also built on a former municipal lot, one that was only operational for 12 years.
The company is undertaking 3 similar projects in another Illinois mid-sized town with a prominent university, Normal that are worth over million.
Parking will still be a feature of the development, only in the form of a privately managed 500 space architectural facility.
The city is developing other plans for its many other lots, which currently represent 1/3 of all parking in downtown, including turning one of the more prominent ones into a landscaped plaza for gatherings and outdoor events. Beautification projects are high on the list of desires.
One Main’s descriptions of their desires and actions towards a new "creative" downtown equates its current state as a vampire to be slain, and the weapon in development:
"To take development back from the edge of the city and drive it deep into the heart of thriving downtown."

Downtown Champaign: Taking Out of Storage
facilities management jobs

Image by grifray
Construction surrounding the deconstruction of municipal lots N and HS (Hill Street). In the late 1960s – early 1970s, the City of Champaign began a multi-million dollar effort to convert the land here to parking lots. Many of the business owners who were located here were removed by condemnation orders of the city, though most settled out of court.
Currently, the city is going through another kind of development, one where the parking lots built during the 60s – 90s are valued as available, and cheap, space for infill construction projects.
As in many cities across the country, many of these projects are attempts to make themselves more attractive to the "creative classes" – those with disposable income and information management jobs.
Lots N and HS have become the site of M2 on Neil, a mixed use facility housing retail, offices and condos. M2 is a million project by the local property development company, One Main. As a construction effort desirable to the city’s redevelopment initiative, the project is receiving not just affordable land, but .5 million in additional financial incentives to complete the building.
One Main is also responsible for the other major urban project in downtown Champaign, just across Neil St. from M2, known as One Main – it’s address.
One Main was also built on a former municipal lot, one that was only operational for 12 years.
The company is undertaking 3 similar projects in another Illinois mid-sized town with a prominent university, Normal that are worth over million.
Parking will still be a feature of the development, only in the form of a privately managed 500 space architectural facility.
The city is developing other plans for its many other lots, which currently represent 1/3 of all parking in downtown, including turning one of the more prominent ones into a landscaped plaza for gatherings and outdoor events. Beautification projects are high on the list of desires.
One Main’s descriptions of their desires and actions towards a new "creative" downtown equates its current state as a vampire to be slain, and the weapon in development:
"To take development back from the edge of the city and drive it deep into the heart of thriving downtown."

Downtown Champaign: Taking Out of Storage
facilities management jobs

Image by grifray
Construction surrounding the deconstruction of municipal lots N and HS (Hill Street). In the late 1960s – early 1970s, the City of Champaign began a multi-million dollar effort to convert the land here to parking lots. Many of the business owners who were located here were removed by condemnation orders of the city, though most settled out of court.
Currently, the city is going through another kind of development, one where the parking lots built during the 60s – 90s are valued as available, and cheap, space for infill construction projects.
As in many cities across the country, many of these projects are attempts to make themselves more attractive to the "creative classes" – those with disposable income and information management jobs.
Lots N and HS have become the site of M2 on Neil, a mixed use facility housing retail, offices and condos. M2 is a million project by the local property development company, One Main. As a construction effort desirable to the city’s redevelopment initiative, the project is receiving not just affordable land, but .5 million in additional financial incentives to complete the building.
One Main is also responsible for the other major urban project in downtown Champaign, just across Neil St. from M2, known as One Main – it’s address.
One Main was also built on a former municipal lot, one that was only operational for 12 years.
The company is undertaking 3 similar projects in another Illinois mid-sized town with a prominent university, Normal that are worth over million.
Parking will still be a feature of the development, only in the form of a privately managed 500 space architectural facility.
The city is developing other plans for its many other lots, which currently represent 1/3 of all parking in downtown, including turning one of the more prominent ones into a landscaped plaza for gatherings and outdoor events. Beautification projects are high on the list of desires.
One Main’s descriptions of their desires and actions towards a new "creative" downtown equates its current state as a vampire to be slain, and the weapon in development:
"To take development back from the edge of the city and drive it deep into the heart of thriving downtown."

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Cool Facilities Management Jobs images

31
Jul 2011
By admin

A few nice facilities management jobs images I found:

Downtown Champaign: Taking Out of Storage
facilities management jobs

Image by grifray
Construction surrounding the deconstruction of municipal lots N and HS (Hill Street). In the late 1960s – early 1970s, the City of Champaign began a multi-million dollar effort to convert the land here to parking lots. Many of the business owners who were located here were removed by condemnation orders of the city, though most settled out of court.
Currently, the city is going through another kind of development, one where the parking lots built during the 60s – 90s are valued as available, and cheap, space for infill construction projects.
As in many cities across the country, many of these projects are attempts to make themselves more attractive to the "creative classes" – those with disposable income and information management jobs.
Lots N and HS have become the site of M2 on Neil, a mixed use facility housing retail, offices and condos. M2 is a million project by the local property development company, One Main. As a construction effort desirable to the city’s redevelopment initiative, the project is receiving not just affordable land, but .5 million in additional financial incentives to complete the building.
One Main is also responsible for the other major urban project in downtown Champaign, just across Neil St. from M2, known as One Main – it’s address.
One Main was also built on a former municipal lot, one that was only operational for 12 years.
The company is undertaking 3 similar projects in another Illinois mid-sized town with a prominent university, Normal that are worth over million.
Parking will still be a feature of the development, only in the form of a privately managed 500 space architectural facility.
The city is developing other plans for its many other lots, which currently represent 1/3 of all parking in downtown, including turning one of the more prominent ones into a landscaped plaza for gatherings and outdoor events. Beautification projects are high on the list of desires.
One Main’s descriptions of their desires and actions towards a new "creative" downtown equates its current state as a vampire to be slain, and the weapon in development:
"To take development back from the edge of the city and drive it deep into the heart of thriving downtown."

Downtown Champaign: Taking Out of Storage
facilities management jobs

Image by grifray
Construction surrounding the deconstruction of municipal lots N and HS (Hill Street). In the late 1960s – early 1970s, the City of Champaign began a multi-million dollar effort to convert the land here to parking lots. Many of the business owners who were located here were removed by condemnation orders of the city, though most settled out of court.
Currently, the city is going through another kind of development, one where the parking lots built during the 60s – 90s are valued as available, and cheap, space for infill construction projects.
As in many cities across the country, many of these projects are attempts to make themselves more attractive to the "creative classes" – those with disposable income and information management jobs.
Lots N and HS have become the site of M2 on Neil, a mixed use facility housing retail, offices and condos. M2 is a million project by the local property development company, One Main. As a construction effort desirable to the city’s redevelopment initiative, the project is receiving not just affordable land, but .5 million in additional financial incentives to complete the building.
One Main is also responsible for the other major urban project in downtown Champaign, just across Neil St. from M2, known as One Main – it’s address.
One Main was also built on a former municipal lot, one that was only operational for 12 years.
The company is undertaking 3 similar projects in another Illinois mid-sized town with a prominent university, Normal that are worth over million.
Parking will still be a feature of the development, only in the form of a privately managed 500 space architectural facility.
The city is developing other plans for its many other lots, which currently represent 1/3 of all parking in downtown, including turning one of the more prominent ones into a landscaped plaza for gatherings and outdoor events. Beautification projects are high on the list of desires.
One Main’s descriptions of their desires and actions towards a new "creative" downtown equates its current state as a vampire to be slain, and the weapon in development:
"To take development back from the edge of the city and drive it deep into the heart of thriving downtown."

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Strathclyde Associates Construction Management News: Design Firms Are Reluctant to Adopt Collaborative Project Methods

30
Jan 2011
By admin

Strathclyde Associates Construction Management News: Design Firms Are Reluctant to Adopt Collaborative Project Methods

 

 

WAYLAND, Mass. — Many architecture and engineering leaders believe integrated project delivery (IPD) — where architects, engineers, owners, contractors, and subcontractors work collaboratively as a team from the inception of a project and share the benefits and risks — is riddled with too many unknowns to even consider at this point, according to a survey by The Zweig Letter.

 

Strathclyde Associates Construction Management News: Participants in the survey said the lack of specific insurance protection products, no vetting in the courts, and the sheer difficulty of assembling a group of people with a common goal, are all impediments to IPD.

 

“Unfortunately I feel that IPD will only be tested when there is litigation,” said Rick Savely, chief development officer at architecture firm TAYLOR. “Then and only then will we see whether all parties will band together as one.”

 

Strathclyde Associates Construction Management News: Despite the jitters, a number of design firms are pushing the concept, which is seen as a way of producing better projects at lower costs. An evenly split majority of respondents (75 percent) said that they have either tried or are considering IPD.

 

“IPD allows competent firms to deliver increased value to their clients and achieve better returns if only by slashing bureaucracy, improving communication, and limiting rework, all while containing their liabilities through use of appropriate subcontract agreements,” said Kevin Phillips, CEO of FPM Group Ltd. in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., a full-service environmental and traditional engineering firm.

 

Respondents gave a variety of answers when asked about the greatest impediment to IPD adoption.

 

Strathclyde Associates Construction Management News: The most common responses focused on inertia, finding partners who think alike, fear of the “point of no return” with IPD, lack of specific liability coverage, legal unknowns, technological challenges, and reluctance to adopt existing IPD contracts, among others.

 

Specifically, 25 percent of respondents listed lack of specific insurance products as the biggest barrier, followed by lack of legal precedent (17 percent), and the difficulty in assembling the right team and a perception that IPD benefits some more than others (both at 13 percent).

 

Strathclyde Associates Construction Management News: Nevertheless, many among the skeptics are at least willing to give IPD a try. According to the survey, 44 percent of respondents said they would join an IPD team if they could find the right partners. Another 26 percent said they would entertain the concept if insurance products were available, and a further 26 percent said they are waiting to see how the courts look at litigation involving IPD before looking deeper.

The company was established in early 2005 to serve the booming international construction industry. We work with associate companies worldwide.

Soon after its establishment, Strathclyde Associates Trading and Management Construction Company made a number of associations mainly in the Pacific and Southeast Asia regions. These business partnerships added extra strength to Strathclyde Associates Trading and Management Construction Company. We are proud to be associated with projects in countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and Seoul, S Korea.

Strathclyde Associates Trading and Management Construction Company is passionate in the belief that from adversity comes opportunity. We believe that sustainable competitive advantage is always predicated upon the focused execution of a few core strengths or priniciples that are indemic to each particular company.


Article from articlesbase.com

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Associate Director (Houston)

24
Nov 2010
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‘We currently have an opportunity seeking an Associate Director to help manage the delivery of projects and support the Director of Management Consulting in providing commercial and technical support to a variety of clients and projects, and provide added leadership to the Management Consulting team’

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Associate Director (Houston)

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Vice President, Recycling and Reuse Solutions (Exton)

20
Nov 2010
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‘Land Resource Recycling Management, a subsidiary of ECOR Solutions, INC, provides reuse and recycling services to Industrial, primarily food processing, and Public Sector Clients’

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Vice President, Recycling and Reuse Solutions (Exton)

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Vice President Supply Side Management (Falls Church)

16
Nov 2010
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‘Responsible for the day-to-day operations of Supply Chain Management across the Inova Health System’

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Vice President Supply Side Management (Falls Church)

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