Houston, TX (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 3, 2008 -- With a growing accent on activity attention aural the federal government, the complete ambiance represents a area with cogent opportunities to abate the nation's activity consumption. The National Academies of Sciences' Federal Facilities Council, in affiliation with the International Facility Management Association, will host a collective action appointment in Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2008, to focus on able activity use in buildings.
This accident presents a different befalling to facilitate chat amid accessible and clandestine area leaders about sustainability in the complete ambiance and to altercate aldermanic and action trends This year's appointment will abode the active armament abaft contempo activity legislation and activity ability requirements while attempting to appraise the intentions of Congress and the administering in affair these requirements. The third anniversary Public Policy Forum will present legislators with arising issues and best practices apropos to sustainability in ability management. The appointment will action a array of alone presentations, with capacity of altercation including activity able solutions for the complete environment, the adjustment of greenhouse gas emissions from bartering barrio and the challenges accompanying to creating and acknowledging acceptable initiatives.
"This accident presents a different befalling to facilitate chat amid accessible and clandestine area leaders about sustainability in the complete ambiance and to altercate aldermanic and action trends," said IFMA Director of Government Relations Jeffrey Johnson. "This year's appointment will abode the active armament abaft contempo activity legislation and activity ability requirements while attempting to appraise the intentions of Congress and the administering in affair these requirements."
Numerous federal admiral accept been arrive to allege at the forum, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Sen. Byron Dorgan, Rep. Bob Brady, Rep. Edward Markey, Rep. Jay Inslee and Rep. Dennis Rehberg. Other government and clandestine area speakers slated to appear are Donna McIntire of the State Department, Joe Grabowski of the Ferreira Group and assembly from IFMA.
The Public Policy Forum will be captivated in allowance HC-5 of the U.S. Capitol from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11. Facility professionals and associates of the accepted accessible are arrive to attend.
The appointment has been accommodating with the additional anniversary Facilities Management Workshop, a collective adventure amid IFMA, the FFC and the Society of American Military Engineers. Held Sept. 9-10 at the Washington Marriott in city Washington, D.C., the branch will focus on issues adverse chief ability managers in the accessible area as able-bodied as the latest industry trends and best practices. For added advice on the Facilities Management Workshop, bang here.
IFMA is the world's better and a lot of broadly accustomed all-embracing affiliation for able ability managers, acknowledging added than 19,000 associates in 60 countries. The association's members, represented in 125 capacity and 15 councils worldwide, administer added than 37 billion aboveboard anxiety of acreage and annually acquirement added than US$100 billion in articles and services. Formed in 1980, IFMA certifies ability managers, conducts research, provides educational programs, recognizes ability administration affidavit programs and produces World Workplace, the world's better ability administration appointment and exposition. For added information, appointment the IFMA columnist room or www.ifma.org.
Contact:
George Deutsch
713-623-4362
communications@ifma.org
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