Corporate Real Esate Council

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The Corporate Real Estate Council focuses on the real estate and facility issues affecting the day-to-day operations endemic to corporate America. Focus areas include: workplace innovation, national and global real estate leasing/occupancy trends, corporate resource management, service delivery trends and Web based real estate technology.

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IFMA Foundation - FMpedia

Help others learn the language of FM. The IFMA Foundation is proud to bring you FMpedia, an accessible glossary of 800 to 900 descriptions, terms and abbreviations related to facility management. Here is the link to a recorded version of a short introductory webinar to learn more about this new tool http://ifma.acrobat.com/p58355781/. IFMA Foundation Trustee Eric Teicholz, IFMA Fellow gives a brief overview of how it works and how you can provide definitions from your industry. You can explore FMpedia on your own by clicking on this link http://www.gsishare.com/ifma/FMpedia/index.html.

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<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="397"><img alt="OSCRE Logo-sm-2.jpg" src="http://img.pcdn.vresp.com/media/f/4/a/f4a533090c/e670ad5e4c/986c89cdd4/library/OSCRE%20Logo-sm-2.jpg" width="110" height="95"> </td> <td valign="top" width="240">For Further Information: Elaine M. Groves OSCRE Americas, Inc 404-226-0181 <a href="mailto:Elaine.groves@oscre.org">Elaine.groves@oscre.org</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">    PRESS RELEASE:  FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION OSCRE Lecture at National Academy of Science, Washington, D.C. June 24th - Open to the Public WASHINGTON, D.C - June 16, 2009 - The Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE), North America's foremost standards development organization for the real property supply chain has been invited to lecture at the National Academy of Science - Federal Facility Council. The Sustainable Operations & Maintenance Committee of the Federal Facilities Council will host a lecture on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 9AM in room 109 of the Keck Center of the National Academies. This lecture is open to the public. The lecture will address the "Warfighter or Office Worker - Converting Operating Dollars to Mission Funding by Leveraging Emerging Technologies fro Real Property Asset Management."  More people want more information from a more diverse number of sources with greater efficiency, consistency and transparency at lower operating costs to make faster, better informed business decisions necessary to meet their mission objectives, but often times fail to address the ‘unsexy' behind the scenes work necessary to evolve the Real Property industry to the next level of operating excellence.  In the same manner business entities within the Travel, High Tech Manufacturing, Financial sectors shared in providing labor resource and funding to develop interoperable data exchange standards yielding significant operating efficiencies and financial returns, members of the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) with an understanding of the business value are leading the way for their organizations and Real Property industry for real business transformation. This lecture will be co-presented by OSCRE CEO Andy Fuhrman, who will provide a view of the business challenges, solutions, value and the organizations taking a leadership role transforming the way our industry operates. Reinforcing the business value from an end-user perspective, Lt. Colonel Mark Madaus, USAF - Asset Management Optimization Branch will provide insight into their mission to reduce operating expenses and portfolio size 20% by 2020. A key component enabling Air Force to identify potential disposal properties is OSCRE's Space Classification Standard. Both presenters will make a business case that the Air Force model should be seriously reviewed, discussed and considered for adoption by other Federal agencies as a fundamental element many other enhanced business solutions can be developed from. Directions to the Keck Center can be found at: <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?OSCRE/e670ad5e4c/75be353df6/f0938d05e3">http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/contact/nax.html</a> PLEASE RSVP to <a href="mailto:%20kelewis@nas.edu">Kevin Lewis</a> by email if you plan to attend. Kevin M. Lewis Senior Program Officer National Research Council 500 5th St NW Room Keck-974 Washington, DC 20001 202-334-1811 202-334-3718 (fax) <a href="mailto:%20kelewis@nas.edu">kelewis@nas.edu</a> About the Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) Americas Headquartered in Washington, D.C., as a 501(c)(6) non-profit organization, OSCRE's mission is to effectively facilitate the standards development process among key real estate stakeholders, including owners, tenants/occupants, investors, operators, tenants, developers, service providers, regulatory agencies, consulting firms, vendors and suppliers - to benefit all stakeholders and enable the real estate industry to function more efficiently in the digital economy. Supporting member organizations of OSCRE Americas represent in excess of $2.1 Trillion in Real Estate Assets, 12.3 Billion Square Feet of Floor Space and 1,370,500 association members. For more information please visit our website at <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?OSCRE/e670ad5e4c/75be353df6/fa38a4e011">http://www.oscre.org</a>. </td> </tr> </table>