NNECERAPPA

By Bizhan Yahyazadeh
Director of Facilities Operations

Don't miss out on the Spring 2011 NNECERAPPA conference on March 17 & 18, being held at Norwich University in Northfield Vermont.  Let the conference theme "March to the future" advance your professional skills and be a successful Facilities Manager.
The Host Committee is very excited and has been working over the past few months to plan a special conference for all. The educational programming is designed to benefit facilities directors, managers, supervisors and valuable staff who bear the load every day as well as Business Partners with innovative knowledge.
As we are about to complete final touches on the conference, we hope you join us to learn new ways to provide exceptional service to your customers and network with your peers, and reenergize your commitment to quality Facilities Management.
Looking forward to seeing you all at Norwich University in March!

Chapter Recognizes Members at Fall 2010 Meeting
By Anita Bailey, NNECERAPPA  VP

We as a chapter continue to recognize our chapter members with Membership Recognition Pins.  Institutional members as well as Subscribing Business Partner members who have been involved with our chapter for five or more years qualify to receive a Member Recognition pin representing the number of years they have been involved- from 5, 10, 15, and 20+.  In addition, an Emeritus pin recognizes those who have been awarded Emeritus status.
Congratulations to the following pin recipients from the Fall 2010 Chapter Meeting, held at the University of Maine in Orono:

Five Years:

• James Rose, Engelberth Construction

Emeritus:

• Bill Gardiner, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (retired)- and Past Chapter President

Others who had applied but were not in attendance at the fall chapter meeting will receive their pins at a future meeting that they attend.
As a reminder, an on-line application for a chapter Membership Recognition Pin is available on the NNECERAPPA web site.  Once you are complete and hit <SUBMIT>, your application will quickly find its way to our committee (the Chapter Vice President, Past President, a Business Partner, and one other institutional representative make up the committee), where it will be reviewed.  Those eligible applicants will receive their Membership Recognition Pins at the next chapter meeting that they attend.   So don't delay- apply today!

HOW DO YOU APPLY: 

• go to the chapter web site at    www.erappa.org/nne
• under the  MAIN  MENU  column on the left side, select  AWARDS
•  this will bring you directly to the Membership Recognition Pin information and application

By Dale Deblois

Since the last visit to Bates College in the Spring of 1993, the campus has undergone an incredible transformation. The College has done dramatic improvements to its athletic complex and fields as well as its dining hall and academic spaces.

Bates is looking forward to hosting the fall 2011 chapter meeting of NNECERAPPA!
It will be held October 20th and 21st, a perfect time to enjoy scenic Maine in the fall with its vibrant foliage and everyday charm.

More details will be made available at Norwich in March as well as on the chapter website as they become available. See you all there!

By Anita Bailey

Phillips Exeter Academy last hosted a chapter meeting in the spring of 2003.  At that conference, we rolled out our then new Phelps Science Center, and hosted 221 Institutional Members and 122 Business Partners with 65 booths.  Looking back, those numbers seem staggering.  We are ready to give it another try, to see if we can build on our last success. 

Phillips Exeter is planning to once again host the Spring Chapter Meeting in 2012.  Lots has happened here in the 9 years between chapter meetings, and the time seems right to invite you, our Northern New England colleagues, back to our campus.  Just as life springs up from beneath high winter snow banks when the first bursts of warm air come our way (and this year, will we be ready!), we have been slowly recovering from the halt of campus projects and initiatives that resulted from the economic downturn.  

Back in 2003, with our new science center open, our old science building was in mothballs.  It has since become the gleaming Phelps Academy Center (LEED Silver) - home to a combination student and community center- which presents another location for holding chapter activities when we host.  We have added a new children's center, synthetic turf out at our stadium, and we built three new "green" faculty houses- each achieving LEED Gold certification.  In addition, we have completed a modernization project at our Central Heat Plant, as well as a few phases of our multi-phase approach to replace underground steam lines.  And I haven't even started on the list of other efforts toward campus improvements completed, in progress, or in the planning stages.  In other words, we have lots to share with you, our guests, when you visit next year.  We look forward to hosting NNECERAPPA in the spring of 2012.  Stay tuned!

By Dale Deblois

It's not as far away as it seems. The fall meeting for NNECERAPPA will be held at beautiful Colby College, in Waterville, Maine.

The college's new state of the art biomass plant will be on line and the new art museum addition construction will be well underway as well as many other changes to the Colby College facilities.

We look forward to having NNECERAPPA back on campus and look forward to seeing our fellow facility professionals along with we hope many new faces.