afe silicon valley chapter newsletter august-sept 2013

Silicon Valley Chapter 39 www.afe39.org Aug-Sept 2013 $6 plus S&H

FACILITIES ENGINEERING®Silicon Valley Chapter Mission Statement: To strengthen and grow the Silicon Valley Facilities community, by providing cutting-edge educational events, professional certification, training, and a network of industry professionals to promote and enhance the careers of our members.

September Event: Half Day Overview of California’s NEW 2013 CodesA Joint Meeting of AFE and ISPE Bay Area Chapter

Presented by Reinhard Hanselka, PhD, Director of Code Compliance, CRB

Join colleagues from the ISPE Bay Area Chapter (International Society for

Pharmaceutical Engineering) for a half day session on the new 2013 California Codes. Attendees will be provided with a clear understanding of the many changes to the codes. A special emphasis on the legal re-quirements of handling potent com-pounds will be included in the pre-sentation.

About the Presenter:With 39 years experience in haz-ardous material and fire code com-pliance, Dr. Hanselka has made enormous contributions to numer-ous jurisdictions and industries. He currently serves as Consultant to

AFE Silicon Valley Chapter Meeting Half Day Overview California’s NEW 2013 CodesPresented by ISPE Bay Area Chapter and AFE Silicon Valley Chapter

Thurs., Sept. 26 Noon–5 pm

Noon Registration12:30-1:15 Lunch1:15 - 5 pm PresentationLocation: South San Francisco Conference Center255 South Airport Blvd.South San Francisco, CA 94080

Cost:$100 AFE & ISPE Members; $140 Non-Members

To Register:http://atdevents.net/register.php

Questions? Contact Rob Fleming 800-869-9621

the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy and the department of Defense.

He recently joined CRB as Director of Code Compliance and will pro-vide his specialized knowledge to CRB’s domestic and international clients. He will join the company’s nationally recognized team of indus-try experts working in CRB’s Carls-bad office.

Dr. Hanselka is a member of the AFE Silicon Valley Chapter and writes one of this newsletter’s most popu-lar columns (see page 3) in which he answers AFE members’ questions on the code.

Registration for this meeting can be done online or via fax. The fax regis-tration form can be found at www.afe39.org/events.

To register online visit http://www.atdeveents.net/register.php.

Meeting and Tour Oct 16

Tour NetApp’s High-Efficiency Data CenterOn October 16, the AFE will meet at NetApp for a tour and a discussion of the sustainability programs and activities used by this leading data management and storage firm. With $6.3 Billion Revenue, 13,000+ employees, and 150 offices, NetApp Data ONTAP is the world’s #1 branded storage OS, the #1 storage provider to the U.S. government, and one of the top companies to work for according to two prestigious workplace surveys.

Brian Glazebrook, Senior Global Sustainability Man-ager, will discuss the challenges in setting a forward-looking strategy for companies that are experiencing rapid growth and whose environmental footprint are not driven by manufacturing activities.

He will highlight sustainability practices in play for NetApp facility management, the metrics NetApp tracks, and the tools they use. Corporate culture is an important facet that drives sustainability at

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August-September 2013

From the President’s Desk

What to Expect in Q4By Raffy Espiritu FMP, President, AFE Silicon Valley

Thus far, the chapter’s programs have progressed quite nicely from the January kick-off at the LinkedIn campus in Mountain View. Q3 was memorable for the Lunch & Learn educational sessions that brought subject experts on recent code ordi-nances on lighting control, cost saving techniques in operations and maintenance and life safety and fire suppression systems. It was also the period where members and their guests spent time on the greens at San Jose Country Club to relax while raising funds to support our chapter’s educational and mem-bership expansion programs.

Q4 will be a great treat for more exciting educational and relationship building opportuni-ties as one can glean from the parade of events as follows:

• Northern California Facili-ties Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center Sept 25 & 26. Please visit the AFE Booth (#351) to engage our volun-teer leaders about why it pays to be a part of this dynamic organization (see page 5).

• Release of a special publica-tion by the Silicon Valley Jour-nal on Facilities Management which the chapter supported together with BOMA and IFMA. The publication high-lights the vital contributions facility managers and engi-neers make in the built envi-ronment (see page 11).

• Launch of a certificate pro-gram on Facility Management at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo which the chapter loudly en-dorsed. See calpoly.edu and search for facilities manage-ment).

• Joint AFE-ISPE educational session on the new Califor-nia Code – More than 100 attendees are expected for this much sought educational session to be conducted by Reinhard Hanselka, a subject expert on code compliance who is regular contributor to our award-winning chapter newsletter. For the first time AFE will join hands with ISPE, the largest trade organization in life science and pharmaceu-tical sectors. (See page 1.)

• NMFT Show, Sept 17-18, in Las Vegas where the national AFE Board will be meeting and plotting the direction of AFE of the next year and the balance of the decade.

• Network Appliance Data

Raffy Espiritu, AFE Silicon Valley Chapter President, is also President and CEO of the Impec Group in Santa Clara, 408-330-9350, [email protected]

Continued on page 11


Reinhard’s Code Corner #99

2013 Code Classes & SeminarsSummer is finally over, the new Bay Bridge is on line, and traffic is once again at its normal heavy levels. September is the month of code classes. The first session on the new 2013 California codes will be an educational class for the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) on September 12 in Los Angeles. It will be followed, most importantly, by a four-hour session sponsored by ISPE and AFE at the South San Francisco Convention Center on September 26. The session will kick off with lunch and CEUs will be awarded.

I urge you to attend. Several major changes have been adopted in the new Building and Mechanical Codes; and our new Califor-nia 2013 Fire Code has undergone a complete renumbering and reformatting experience. I have invited our state Fire Marshal, Tonya Hoover, to participate and share some wisdom with the ISPE and AFE groups.

As always we have a few good questions:

Question #1: We are a small biotech startup looking to expand. We are in a multi-tenant structure that was once a strip mall. We were told by our architect that the building is compartmentalized and each unit has a one-hour separation. There are eight contiguous spaces. We are getting several different versions of how much chem-istry we can have in our 2000 sq. ft. space. Can you help?

Wow, you have several questions that all beg an answer. I am assuming that the strip mall is a one-story structure. In that configuration you may have four control areas. The first four tenants with any chemistry will make the only four control ar-eas allowed. Outside of those control areas, no chemistry is allowed, other than incidental janitorial materials.

If you need chemicals above the allowable amounts, they may not be permitted in this building. You should speak to the land-lord and the local fire department to see what will be permit-ted.

Question #2: We are an existing business that has been in operation for over 15 years. We recently had a small chemical spill in a fume hood that started a fire. The fume hood contained the fire and our operators assisted in extinguishing it with portable fire extinguishers.We had a subsequent fire inspection and they wrote us up for every deficiency in our facility, including some that were allowed like our fume hood without sprinklers and even our plastic DWV piping. Are we being singled out?

Yes you are being singled out. Since you had a fire, which can be an escalating event, you have opened the door for your in-spection. Flammable liquid laws and standards are absolutely retroactive. Your fire just took you to the top of the list. The new Fume Hood Standard NFPA 45 requires automatic fire

protection whenever flammables are used or stored. This changed in 2006. Plastic piping was never permitted to transport flamma-ble liquids. Good luck with your upgrades.

If you have a question on the code, send it to:

Reinhard Hanselka, PE, REA CRB Consulting Engineers75 East Santa Clara St. Suite 350San Jose, CA [email protected]

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Welcome Back to the Students!by Stan Nakaso, AFE-SV Student Affairs Chair

Summer has come to an end. College students are welcoming old friends, shuffling class schedules and gearing up for a step closer towards gradu-ation. Many students will be seeking internships, and permanent positions. I hope that membership in their local AFE campus club is included in their Fall list of “must dos.”

The AFE Silicon Valley Chapter is working with San Jose State, Santa Clara University and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to provide students with oppor-tunities to interact with local Facility Engineering professionals through several club activities. We believe it is important to introduce students to fa-cilities representatives for informal introductions to the variety of facility careers available. Local AFE professionals are always willing to share their experiences with students throughout the year.

Many engineering students do not realize their ed-ucation prepares them for several rewarding op-portunities that may not commonly be advertised on internet job sites and college recruiting cen-

ters. “Evening with Industry”; Lunch and Learns; and Facility Campus talks are just a few events, which bring facility professionals and students to-gether.

I encourage students to take these opportuni-ties to ask questions and learn more about these “hidden” job opportunities. Start by joining your local student chapter of the AFE at your school. Participate in club activities and be willing to view facility engineering problems as an opportunity to broaden your classical study with problem-solving techniques that will require a combination of en-gineering, business, and collaborative approaches for solutions not always found in traditional engi-neering jobs.

Most AFE Silicon Valley chapter members are hap-py to help students see the world of the facility professionals and the opportunities that are out there. Get ready! The first student/professional event of the new academic year is “Evening with Industry” in October at San Jose State. Stay tuned for more details.

Stan Nakaso, AFE-SV Student Affairs Chair, works at Lockheed Martin as Project Manager. Contact Stan at 408-742-8084 or, [email protected]


Wednesday, Sept. 25 Session 1: How to Ensure That Your Back-up Power Won’t Fail8:25-9:25am Chuck Schalk, Peterson Power Systems

Session 2: The LED Retrofit Challenge8:25-9:25am Dean Trinh, SoLED Energy, Inc.

Session 3: Proper Maintenance of Pol-ished Flooring Surfaces9:35-10:35am Josh Jones, President, Substrate Technology, Inc.

Session 4: Effective Use of Building Au-tomation Systems to Reduce Utility Bills and Energy Con-sumption: a Panel Discussion9:35-10:35am Moderators: Shiva Swaminathan and Christine Tam of City of Palo Alto Utilities Panelists: Larry Morgan, SAP; Dave Ham, Palo Alto Research Center; and Bob Stevens, Ste-vens Development Company

Session 5: How to Set Up the Optimum PdM Program For Your Facility11am-Noon Paul Richey, Redline PdM

Session 6: How Google’s Campus Became a Regional Leader in Supplying Electric Vehicle Charging Sta-tions for Employees11am–Noon Rolf Schrieber, Technical Pro-gram Manager for Electric Trans-portation, Google, Inc.

Session 7: The Basics of Fall Protection1-2pmAndy Bull, President, C.H. Bull Company

Session 8: A Look at the City of Palo Al-to’s Impressive Carbon Neutral Electric Supplies and Sustain-ability Programs1-2pm Shiva Swaminathan, Senior Re-source Planner, City of Palo Alto Utilities

Session A Special Film: Business Continu-ity Planning - What You Need to Know 2:10pm-3pm

Thursday, Sept. 26 Session 9: Industrial Wastewater Pre-treatment and Stormwater Regulations: What You Need to Know8:25–9:25am Napp Fukuda and Sharon New-ton, City of San Jose, Environ-mental Services Department

Session 10: LEED for Schools - What It Is and How It Helps Improve Educational Facilities8:25–9:25am Linda Mao, Sugimura-Finney Ar-chitects and John Diffenderfer, Aedis Architects; members of USGBC NCC Green Schools Committee

Session 11: Facilities Roofing Update - Building Code Compliance, OSHA Regs and Energy Conser-vation Requirements9:35–10:35am Joseph Fricke, CentiMark Corp.Session 12: How to Achieve Energy-Effi-cient Lighting Retrofits 9:35–10:35am Milena Simeonova, Lighting Program Coordinator, PG&E Pacific Energy CenterSession 13: Impact Power Quality Reports - Their Value For Your Facility11am-NoonAndrew Taylor, CEO, Applied Pow-er Technologies Session 14: ISO14001 - How Advantest Corporation’s Environmental Management System Became Certified, and the Benefits of Certification for Green-Fo-cused Companies11am-NoonWerner Haberstock, Senior Director, FSE Operations and EMS Representative, Advan-test America, Inc.Session 15: Is Your Building Automation System Secure From Hackers?1-2pmBilly Rios and Terry McCorkle, Technical Directors, CylanceSession 16: Pervious Concrete Maintenance Guidelines1-2 pm David Liguori, President, Bay Area Pervious Concrete Session B FEMA Film: Business Continu-ity Planning - What You Need to Know 2:10 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

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October 16 Meeting and Tour at NetApp (continued from page 1)

AFE Silicon Valley Chapter Meeting

Sustainability Programs and Tour of NetApp

Wed., October 16 4:30 - 8 pm

4:30 pm Registration5 pm Welcome5:10 pm Sustainabil ity

Presentation6 pm Data Center

Tour6:30-8 pm Networking

ReceptionLocation: NetApp Headquarters495 East Java DriveSunnyvale CA 94089

Cost:$25 AFE Members; $35 Non-Members; $15 Student AFE Members

To Register:http://afesiliconvalley.event-brite.com

Questions? Contact Alex Mandrusov 408-504-7400

NetApp, and Mr. Glazebrook will weigh that in comparison with financial constraints used by the company’s WPR teams.

He will also look at current trends in sustainabil-ity that impact NetApp in particular and facilities organizations in general, along with an interesting new initiative to report sustainability metrics on corporate 10-K reports and how that will affect what information NetApp tracks and how the company manages energy.

About the PresenterBrian Glazebrook joined NetApp in May 2012 as the Senior Global Sustainability Manager. His role at NetApp is to work with organizations through-out the company to create a cohesive sustain-ability message and program. Currently, Mr. Gla-zebook’s work is focused on rolling out a global energy and greenhouse gas strategy and develop-ing messaging around the environmental aspects of NetApp’s products.

Brian Glazebook has been involved with sustain-ability issues for over 18 years. Prior to NetApp, he was at Cisco, where he led the creation of a comprehensive social responsibility program managing the social and environmental impacts affecting Cisco’s supply chain. Before moving to the corporate side, he spent 11 years as a sustain-ability consultant, working with a wide variety of industries on different issues - from greenhouse gas management to sustainable product design to corporate reporting. He has a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science and a Master’s in Public Affairs from Indiana University.

Tour Highlights:720 Racks @ 8kVA/RackPower usage effectiveness: PUE - 1.24Retrofitted existing building for 100% economizer operation144 Racks (20%) Critical Equipment– 3 MW back up generation– 1440 kW to the racks / 1 MW to

HVACEnergy Efficiency Measures:– (4) 600T high efficiency chillers– (4) high efficiency cooling towers– (14) computer room air handlers

with economizers– 720,000 CFM exhaust relief fan– 7500 kVA of efficient transformers– (2) 900kVA flywheel UPS

Schedule:4:30–5 pm Registration and check-in

5-5:10 pm Welcome by Ralph Renne, NetApp Director, West Region Tech Sites

5:10-5:50 pm Sustainability Presentation by Brian Glazebrook, Senior Manager, Global Sustainability Programs, NetApp

6-6:30 pm Tour of NetApp’s High Efficiency Data Center led by Rick Turner, NetApp Senior Manager, Site Operations and Alex

Membership CornerBy Steve Woods Membership Chair, [email protected]

Want to learn how to SAVE and MAKE money at the same time?

By becoming a Certified Plant Maintenance Man-ager (CPMM), Certified Plant Engineer (CPE) or Certified Plant Supervisor (CPS), you could earn up to $11,000 more a year than your co-workers without certification. The great thing is, your AFE membership provides you with discounts on edu-cational events that will assist with your certifica-

tion or recertification process. For example, you can save as much as $200 on your CPMM Certifi-cation program or $100 on the CPMM Recertifi-cation program.

Take advantage of your Member Benefits to-day! Go to www.afe.org and click on “Certifica-tion and Training” at the top of the page for more details.

Mandrusov, NetApp Program Manager, Site Operations (and AFE-SV Education Chair)

6:30-8 pm Networking Reception with compli-mentary appetizers, beer & wine


Golf Tournament Another Successby Michael Bordoni, Chair, AFE Golf Classic 2013

On August 5th AFE 39 hosted its second an-nual golf tournament at San Jose Country Club. As with last year, the tournament was a roaring success and enjoyed by all. Beautifully clear skies and temperatures in the eighties accompanied the nearly sixty golfers throughout the day on a gor-geous private course in the hills above San Jose. The golfing honors went to the team from Ameri-can Technologies (ATI), who carded a scramble score of 62 to edge out a few other teams in the mid-60s. The low scores unfortunately did not yield a hole-in-one on the day: the prize for which ranged from a Mini-Cooper on Hole 10 to a set of irons elsewhere. The ATI team were not the only winners on the day: raffle prizes ranged from golf balls, wedges, and putters to bottles of wine and a good number of the golfers were able to leave with some sort of prize.

The post-round cocktail hour and awards cer-emony provided an excellent chance for all the golfers to interact and a great time was had by all. It was a resounding success for the chapter and for all who participated. Thanks to all our golfers and a special thank you to our sponsors: Impec

Group (Preferred Hole Sponsor), Barry Swenson Builder (Hole Sponsor Plus), Technical Buidlers (Hole Sponsor), Bay Area Builders (Hole Spon-sor), American Technologies (Hole-in-One Spon-sor), Tico Construction (Long Drive Sponsor) and Integrated Engineering Services (Closest-to-Pin Sponsor). If you couldn’t join us this year we look forward to seeing you out at San Jose Country Club next summer.

Congratulations to Jason Pickett, Brian McClure, Kevin Campbell, Steve Woods – the foursome that won by a card-off at -8. The group is joined by Stan Nakaso, of Lockheed Martin, pictured on the far right.


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AFE SV Chapter President Raffy Espiritu (right)congratulates Golf Tournament Co Chairs Steve Woods and Mike Bordoni

Thank you to Walt Atkins (pictured with his bck to the camera above for the photos.


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Lunch & Learn: August 22Identification & Evaluation of Energy, Maintenance and Operational Savings OpportunitiesBy Raffy Espiritu

Gary Shamshoian, PE, LEED AP, addressed AFE members and guests during the August Lunch and Learn held at the Santa Clara Builders Exchange. He presented several case studies and some “tips and tricks” for financial analysis that can be used as a “business case” to convince upper manage-ment of the savings and return on investment.

He highlighted a number of key factors as follows:

1. Always operate in the context of a team;

2. Engage at the early stage of the process;

3. Plan for flexibility for the attending to future contingencies;

4. Look at facilities as a life cycle.

He presented the formulas to help attendees make a case to improve the efficiency of their building and he sited real examples of opportuni-ties for cost savings through cases studies on:

• SwitchingtoHighPerformance Air Filters

• AddingVFDstoLabSupplyFans

• AddingVFDstoLabExhaustFans

• Identifying Operations Cost Savings in Clean Rooms

• SwitchingtoaHighPerformance HVAC System

Mr. Shamshoian has worked for 30 years in tech-nical construction management, including20 years in biotech and pharmaceutical engineering roles. As Senior Mechanical Engineer for Genentech, Mr. Shamshoian standardized high performance facil-ity designs for energy and maintenance efficiency, and implemented integrated building design strat-egies that delivered three Energy Star buildings for Genentech. His efficiency and reliability im-provements continue to provide over $7M in an-nual operating cost savings.


Center Tour, October 16. Take this unique opportunity to have an inside look how NetApp creates innovative ways to control energy use in one of the largest data centers in the Bay Area. Watch for details in this news-letter.

• Corporate planning in November, 2013. The chapter leadership will meet to plan for policies, programs and initiatives for next year (see page 1 and 7).

• Announcement of the new leadership for our chapter for 2014

• AFE Holiday Party – Join this joyful event in December to celebrate the fruits of the season and a year of boun-tiful benefits accruing to AFE mem-bers through education, networking and creative engagement with thought leaders all throughout the year.

As we pledged, the chapter works for you to enhance your career essentials whatever you do as a professional creat-ing value for the built environment. Do join the very distinguished group of vol-unteer leaders who will move forward the noble goals of elevating the image and reputation of facility engineering in Silicon Valley year after year.

From the President (continued from page 2)

Silicon Valley Business Journal Features AFE SV Board MembersIn a special section of the Silicon Valley Business Journal on Facilities Management, AFE SV Chapter President Raffy Espiritu and Education Chair Alex Mandrusov were featured.

Raffy Espiritu, CEO of the Impec Group, wrote of the increasingly complex role that facility manag-ers are now playing in cutting-edge Silicon Valley companies. He depicted the “full life cycle engage-ment of facility managers” as key to achieving cor-porate goals and objectives and to support the corporate mission.

Alex Mandrusov told his own success story of how he came to earn his position as Program Manager, Site Operations at NetApp.

Both Raffy and Alex extolled the virtues of being a

member of the AFE. Alex said that as AFE Silicon Valley Professional Education Chair his goal, “is to help people enhance their careers in the facilities engineering and management field by providing cutting edge educational events and networking opportunities.” Concluding with “I benefitted tre-mendously from AFE association and now it is my turn to give to the community.”

Raffy pointed to the AFE as one without which the facility and property would not run effectively. “The AFE plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and efficiency of buildings that house the people who drive innovation and prosperity in the Silicon Valley,” he wrote.

For the entire section, see http://www.bizjour-nals.com/sanjose/feature/facilities_manage-ment/2013/08/grow--developing-future-profes-sionals.html?page=all

STEM Takes Flight for KidsAFE members and their families are invit-ed to the 5th annual Take Flight for Kids at the San Jose Reid Hillview Airport, Sat-urday October 19, 2013 9 am–5 pm.

Last year 205 exhibitors and nearly 10,000 people attended making it Silicon Valley’s biggest free STEAAM festival (science, tech, engineering, arts, avia-tion, math). And big upgrades are planned for this year’s event, which is expected to draw a crowd of 20,000.

A project of the Valley Medical Center Foundation, this science and aviation festival features airplane tours, NASA exhibits, robot competitions, hands-on science and tech-nology projects, exotic animals, live entertainment and delicious barbeque and ethnic food.

The Reid Hillview Airport Association will host its annual Airport Open House that day, which means that dozens of historic and exotic aircraft, war birds, helicopters and more will be on display. Plus, from noon-1pm, the radio-controlled aircraft show is scheduled, complete with the Flying Lawnmower, Snoopy’s Flying Doghouse, and more.

The emphasis is on STEM, STEM, STEM and engineers, pilots, and scientists are being sought as volunteers, speak-ers and sponsors. For more information, visit the website. Admission is free for those who register online, www.takeflightforkids.org. Questions? Contact Dean McCully, Take Flight for Kids, [email protected].


Members Helping Members

AFE SV President Raffy Espiritu, Founder, Pres.& CEO, IMPECGroup, 408-330-9350, [email protected], www.impecgroup.com Impec Group is a one-stop shop for solutions needed by a facility from staffing to full operations and maintenance services that include building maintenance and repair, HVAC, custodial, office services, energy management and related facility solutions.

AFE VP James Elder, CAPS, 408-855-1105, [email protected], www.caps4ups.comCAPS Sells/Rents: Auxl Generators,Transformers, SPD, UPS Systems, UPS Service, UPS Battery Replacements, PDUs, Server Racks, Rack PDUs, CRAC’s, Central Monitoring & Control Syst. Project support to Engineers/Contractors/Users at design, install, & operations typi-cally at no cost.

AFE Membership Chair Steve Woods (510) 750-0159 [email protected], www.ATIrestoration.com American Technologies, Inc. (ATI) is a restoration, envi-ronmental and reconstruction specialty contractor. Services include 24-hour emergency ser-vices for water, fire and smoke damage, asbestos/lead removal, mold remediation, biohazard clean-up, contents cleaning/stor-age and reconstruction services.

Education Chair Alex Man-drusov 408-504-7800 [email protected]

AFE SV Past President Bob Adamo, 408-370-6080, [email protected]. Technical Builders is a commer-cial general contractor special-izing in fast paced technically challenging design-build projects such as clean rooms, biotech & medical labs, R & D, and corpo-rate offices. Our facilities based expertise delivers a turnkey, cost effective solution for our clients.

Programs Committee Kim Tamayo 510-277-2646 [email protected] Systems is a fully licensed Fire Alarm Contrac-tor; specializing in commercial applications, office buildings, hospitals, industrial complexes, campuses, hotels, airports and retail properties. Services in-clude Fire/Life Safety system design, engineering, installation, programming, tenant improve-ments, monitoring, testing and UL Certification.

Communications Chair Carole Lucido, [email protected] (925) 947-6080Lucido Marketing & Graphics produces marketing that builds your image in print or on the web. For a sample of our award- winning writing and graphic de-sign work, see lucidomarketing.com, AFE39.org, or this newslet-ter. We make complex informa-tion easy to understand.

Program Chair Jennifer Farmer, 408-353-1236, [email protected] 1979, Greenworks - Workplace Finishes Inc. has established a reputation as the premier living plant and flo-ral display purveyor for Silicon Valley corporate campuses and has developed an integral set of core-competencies provid-ing “value-added” benefits in art consulting services, way-finding signage and Holiday displays.

Chapter Secretary Linda Fung, Contract Administrator, IMPECGroup, 408-330-9350l f u n g @ i m p e c g ro u p . c o m , www.impecgroup.com Impec Group is a one-stop shop for solutions needed by a facility from staffing to full operations and maintenance services that include building maintenance and repair, HVAC, custodial, office services, energy management and related facility solutions.

Student Affairs Chair, Stan Nakaso [email protected]

Your Name Here! Contact AFE-SV Vice President Jim El-der and volunteer for the Board of a Committee today, 408-781-5959

The Silicon Valley chapter of AFE is an all-volunteer organization. Board members listed below work together to bring top quality events to members. Please consider doing business with them.


AFE Silicon Valley 2013 Event Calendar

VENUE DATE LOCATION SPONSOR

Meeting / Facility Tours:AFE Kick-off Meeting at Linkedin January 9 Linkedin Linkedin and Impec

GroupTour San Jose Airport with BOMA February 13 SJ International

AirportTBD

The New California Codes, Joint Meeting with ISPE, presenter: Reinhard Hanselka

September 26 South San Francisco Conference Center

TBD

Buildings Sustainability and Tour of Energy Efficient Data Center

October 16 NetApp NetApp

TBD November TBD

Lunch & Learns:Electric Rate Structures:Where they’re going and what to do about them

January 24 Echelon Echelon

Innovations in High Performance Commercial HVAC Systems

February 28 Fenwick & West Western Allied Mechanical

Hazardous Materials Regulatory Compliance March 28 Texas Instruments Texas Instruments

Transformer Efficiency April 25 BD Biosciences CAPS, PQI

Lighting Controls and Upcoming Changes to Title 24, by Cori Jackson, Program Director, California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis

June 27 One Workplace, Santa Clara

TBD

Fire Protection Systems, Patrick Hallett, Sabah July 25 McAfee, Santa Clara

TBD

Identification and Evaluation of Energy, Maintenance and Operational Savings Opportunities, Gary Shamshoian, P.E., LEED AP

August 22 Santa Clara County Builders Exchange

TBD

Mixers and Special Events: Day with a Facility Professional May 3 Linkedin Linkedin

Golf Tournament August 5 SJ Country Club TBD

Evening with Industry October SJSU Student Chapters

Holiday Party December TBD

Day with Facilities Pro 2014Mark your calendars for the 2014 DWFP student & young professional event on February 28. John Lucas, Vice President of Real Estate & Workplace Ser-vices of Juniper Networks will be hosting event at the newly constructed offices in Sunnyvale Calif.

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