The Pacific Northwest has some of the highest water and sewer rates in the
country, and in this challenging economy we all must find ways to conserve
energy and reduce expenses. A simple water audit using certified Green Plumbers®
standards, can identify opportunities to lower your operating costs. Andi will
also be sharing information and rebate offers from Tacoma Water.
After finishing college in southern California, Michael Lee spent over 12 years
as part of a unique entrepreneurial start up that took him to all 50 states in
America, four continents, and three trips to the White House where his team met
the President on more than one occasion. He developed creative recruiting and
hiring practices and brings that expertise to his tenure as franchise owner of
Express Employment Professionals and Specialized Recruiting Group in Seattle
where he has been since 2005. He is an active member of the Greater
Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Board Member of the Belltown Business Association,
and regularly volunteers his time helping kids build character for success in
life.
http://twitter.com/#!/yoyomanmichael
www.MichaelLeeyoyoman.blogspot.com
Meeting: September 28, 2011 View the September Membership Meeting presentation from speaker Glen
Bachman entitled
"Sustainable Real Estate Management: 30 Things in 30 minutes". The pdf
version of his PowerPoint presentation is about making it a best practice to
perform and operate in a sustainable manor while concentrating on the “Low
Hanging Fruit” concept of property management. Glen Bachman,CPM/RPA/SCSM,
is VP Retail Operations for the Bellevue Collection,
Kemper Development Co.
> View the Presentation [38 pages, pdf]
Victor Ramos is the Army MILCON Program Manager for Seattle District and is
heavily involved with the planning and implementation of this effort at JBLM. He
has worked with the Corps of Engineers for over 18 years. Victor has a extensive
background in mechanical engineering. The Construction Program at Joint Base Lewis McChord, JBLM has experienced
record years and is expected to continue this trend for at least the next two
years. As the Construction Agent for JBLM, the Corps of Engineers is responsible
for executing the Military Construction Program at Joint Base Lewis/McChord (JBLM).
I will provide an overview of the type of facilities we are building, discuss
how we are getting this work accomplished, and provide a layout by region of
what we expect to construct in the next two years at JBLM.
Meeting: March 2010 "2010: A Year of Change"
Presented by Dick Anderson
As each organization is re-defining itself and restructuring, changes is
sometimes difficult. This session will give you some ideas on how to
successfully implement change in your organization.
Dick Anderson is President/CEO of Edge Learning Institute with headquarters in
Tacoma, Washington. His website is:
http://edgelearning.com. Edge is a professional development firm dedicated to
assisting organizations in achieving greater levels of productivity, succeeding
at changing cultures and accomplishing strategic plans. Besides being a
compelling speaker and educator, Mr. Anderson draws from three decades of
management and change experience. His fresh, creative, humorous style makes for
enjoyable listening. He has keynoted hundreds of conferences and conventions and
presented to over half a million people since 1973.
People can go to his website for upcoming program information.
Edge Learning Institute
2209 N. Pearl, Suite 100
Tacoma, WA 98406-2529
Toll-Free Phone: 1-800-858-1484
>> Map & Directions
>> See Meeting "Flash"
Members
Embark on Fundraiser for Olive Crest Families in Need [December
14, 2011] BOMA South Puget Sound held a fundraiser through November-December
2011. The Holiday
charity/fundraiser was for
Olive Crest Pacific Northwest to help foster families.
Olive Crest is
dedicated to Preventing child abuse, to Treating and Educating at-risk children
and to Preserving the family. The BOMA membership was split into four teams. Each team
took on a foster family and raised
money for that family. The team that raised the most money under their family's
team wins.
The fundraiser ended December 14 during the BOMA SPS Holiday Luncheon at the
Tacoma Gold and Country Club. The winning team received tickets to the
Hockey night in February.
Team A: $980
Team Caring Angels: $1375
Team Christmas Givers: $850
Team D: $1135
BOMA Donation to the Salvation Army Food Bank [March 7, 2011] Lt. Colonel Doug O'Brien, Northwest Divisional
Commander of the Salvation Army, thanks BOMA South Puget Sound for their support
and gift of $1,064 on December 31. BOMA SPS donated all proceeds from the
Holiday Social and Silent Auction to the
Salvation Army Tacoma Food Bank. The funds help provide basic food and
shelter, utility and rent assistance, after school and senior citizen programs
and domestic violence shelters.
> View Letter [pdf]
[February 24, 2011] The sixth annual
Puget Sound
BetterBricks Awards honored a total of 14 building professionals from a
variety of fields February 17. Among those recognized with an award were BOMA
Members:
Flood Plain Regulations Impacting Real Estate [February 4, 2011] High Priority Message: If you own or manage real
estate in or near the Green River Valley or near western Washington rivers:
There are pending changes that will drastically impact your ability and cost to:
1. Rebuild your property after a flood
2. Alter your property after a flood
3. Develop your property in the flood plain regardless of a flood
4. Redevelop your property in these areas
Your support is needed to help collectively represent the interests of real
estate owners and managers – the window of opportunity to impact new regulations
is closing quickly. Please make time to attend the meeting and read all
materials below.
Where: Renton City Hall (1055 S. Grady Way, Renton) 7th floor conference room
When: February 17th (Thursday) 8:00 to 9:30 AM
Meeting’s agenda will cover:
1. The scope of the problem and how it affects you
2. Possible immediate legal action
3. Financial support needed toward a legal defense fund to help protect and
preserve property rights and development options and to help shape fair
regulatory changes (This is the key element of the meeting and a plan of action
will be outlined following a presentation on the reason for the need)
Please read
“Three Flood Zone Impact Scenarios” to learn how FEMA’s and NMFS’s proposed
land use standards will impact you. Remember, even if your property never
floods, FEMA’s and NMFS’s proposed development standards will govern your
property’s future use.
Get Free Experience Exchange Report® for 2011 [January 14, 2011] Receive a free expense performance comparison on
how your building compares to other comparable buildings in your market.
Any office building can provide 2010 year-end income and expense data-unaudited
data is acceptable.
BOMA membership is NOT required. Step-by-step features allow you to complete the
online form quickly and easily! Submitting data is absolutely free-and as easy
as 1-2-3. Learn how at:
http://boma.org/Resources/benchmarking/Pages
> Read details in our "Flash"
Kilowatt Crackdown and Tacoma Area Buildings – Free
Scoping Studies [December 11, 2010] The Kilowatt Crackdown is now open to NEW
buildings that missed the original sign-up period. Registering now will give
properties access to FREE scoping studies and FREE Energy Star
certification services!
This is a great follow-up to those who have attended the Best of BEEP or Energy
Star workshops. If you missed out on the initial registration window, now
is the time to get your building in the contest. There are over 100 area office
buildings participating, including a couple in the Tacoma area. (NOTE: Buildings
registering now will only be eligible for prizes and recognition in the Spring
of 2012, not the upcoming awards in 2011.)
Research Project looking for Participants for Field
Analysis of Boiler Performances The Portland Energy
Conservation, Inc. (PECI) is working in conjunction with the
California Energy Commission
to research the effectiveness of four commercial boiler related energy
efficiency measures. The results of this study will be used to update future
revisions of the Energy Code, in particular Title 24.
The
four measures we are investigating include:
1. Electronic parallel positioning
2. Electronic parallel positioning with O2 trim control
3. VFD on the combustion fan
4. Flue damper
We are trying to locate facilities that have any one of these measures in place,
or are planning on installing any of these measures. We would like to perform
field analysis of boiler performance with and without the use of the measure to
determine the boiler efficiency improvement, fuel use reduction, and payback of
the installed equipment. The testing will be non-intrusive and at no expense to
the building owner, and a detailed report of the results would be available
following the analysis.
Benefits of participation include the quantification of energy savings from the
installed measure and the information we gather from this work will be used to
ensure cost effective and energy efficient measures are implemented into future
code revisions.
Interested building representatives can contact John Farley at
jfarley@peci.org
BOMA’s New Suite of Standards: Five Standards, One Low
Price For
almost 100 years, BOMA International has set the standard for measuring
buildings. In 1915 BOMA published the first office floor measurement standard
…and the rest is history. Today, BOMA International is the secretariat of a
suite of measurement standards covering a broad range of commercial and
residential building types.
The bundle includes:
Office Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement
(ANSI/BOMA Z65.1 – 2010)
Industrial Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement
(ANSI/BOMA Z65.2 – 2009)
Gross Areas of a Building: Standard Methods of Measurement
(ANSI/BOMA Z65.3 – 2009)
Multi-Unit Residential Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement
(ANSI/BOMA Z65.4 – 2010)
Retail Buildings: Standard Method of Measurement
(ANSI/BOMA Z65.5 – 2010)
Who benefits from BOMA Standards? A cross section of real estate professionals: building owners and managers,
facility managers, architects, space planners, interior designers, engineers,
leasing professionals, asset managers, appraisers, assessors brokers, general
contractors and many more.
LeMay - America's Car Museum" Newsletter
During the April 2009 Membership meeting presentation by LeMay, there was interest in
some of the content in LeMay's May Newsletter. The newsletter can be viewed from
their
website or by downloading the
Newsletter PDF document.
The Office Building of the Year “TOBY” Regional Online Judging
[March 2009] BOMA Pacific Northwest Region is looking for a few committed
industry professionals to judge the 2008/2009 Pacific NW Regional TOBY entries.
Volunteers will be asked to judge and score the entries online from the comfort
of your office or home from April 6 through April 15, 2009. >> Full Details >> Please
fill out the form and fax or email it to BOMA Seattle King County by Wednesday,
March 25
The Experience Exchange Report EER 2009
[November 2008] Among the many things your membership dues funds is the
industry’s best operating income and expense research, The Experience Exchange
Report (EER). In 2009, the industry’s best benchmarking tool will get even
better! The EER will move entirely online, allowing you to access commercial
office building income and expense data through a dynamic, Web-based platform.
The new online EER will allow you to customize your search for data, export it
to PDF and other user-friendly tools to make budgeting easy, and allow you to
track trends.
The 2009 EER survey will launch in January 2009 and be open through March 2009.
Once again, the survey will be conducted entirely online at
www.boma.org/2009EERsurvey. Submission of data is absolutely free! 2009
respondents receive a complimentary Expense Performance Comparison, which
highlights how the respondent building compares to its peers, but also have the
opportunity to purchase access to the new online EER reports at discounted
prices.
For more information about the EER, please visit
http://www.boma.org/Research
2012 BOMA Convention Comes to Seattle
[August 1, 2008] We are excited to announce that the 2012 BOMA International Annual Convention and Office Building Show will be held in Seattle June 24th - 26th!! Please mark your calendars!
2009 Olympia Day Rescheduled
[May 6, 2008] BOMA Leaders in Government Affairs - Heads Up:
Olympia Day has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 17, 2009 we have the Columbia Room reserved. This was to avoid conflicts with the BOMA International Winter Business Meeting and to secure the Columbia Room. The session starts in January and ends in April (105 days) this will put us approximately 5 weeks into a 13 week session
The 2008 BOMA of Washington Position Paper on Legislative
and Regulatory Interests
[October 25, 2007] B&O Tax Clarification Reimbursable Wages On-site Personnel
Support, Building Engineer’s Single Licensing through Labor and Industries,
Contractor Registration through Labor and Industries and No Split Roll Taxation.
>> learn more [pdf] and previous year
previous year [pdf]
Texas BOMA affiliates are suing the state over "Forced
Access" issue
This is quite well-publicized. Going to the Supreme Court at a cost of about
$1.4 million. BOMA of Houston is short about $20,000 in legal fees and seeking
companies that feel strongly to donate to their cause. Contact is John Cogdill
at (713) 225- 0565.
New Law Amending RCW 19.28.191
After much discussion and pressure from numerous groups, the Legislature has
passed an amendment to RCW 19.28.191, known as the "Electrical Licensing" law.
This affects all property managers and staff doing any electrical work on their
clients' buildings. (This does NOT affect owners working on their own
buildings.)
Although it is not as strict as originally written, the amendment does NOT make
concessions that BOMA and other commercial building industry groups were asking
for. Stay tuned for more on this during this session.
BOMA South Puget Sound Trends
A Publication of Building Owners and Managers of South Puget Sound. BOMA Trends
ceased production in 2004. Association Management has archived digital copies
from 2002-2004.
[December
14, 2011] BOMA South Puget Sound held a fundraiser through November-December
2011. The Holiday
charity/fundraiser was for
The
four measures we are investigating include: 
For
almost 100 years, BOMA International has set the standard for measuring
buildings. In 1915 BOMA published the first office floor measurement standard
…and the rest is history. Today, BOMA International is the secretariat of a
suite of measurement standards covering a broad range of commercial and
residential building types.