Join us in congratulating the 2007 Winners of the ARCHIBUS Awards of Excellence!

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TIFM Business Alliance Award

To the organizations that, together with ARCHIBUS, are creating tools and systems that enable the most effective and efficient Business Practices. These international companies are having a global influence on the healthy growth of the FM automation industry.

• ADSI, ARCTURIS, ESRI, GBBN, and ARCHIBUS for Deployment at State of Minnesota
  
  Rationale: An example of collaboration to meet a complex challenge, this exceptional team effort by our Business Partners and ARCHIBUS extended the reach of ARCHIBUS from its original implementations in the Minnesota Departments of Administration, Corrections, Human Services, and the Minnesota Veterans Homes Board. Because of that effort, the state recently approved ARCHIBUS for use in all of Minnesota’s state government agencies. One of the most significant public sector sales to date, the “Land of 10,000 Lakes” may be on its way to having an equally significant number of ARCHIBUS users.
• APPA and ARCHIBUS for Online Key Performance Indicators
  
  Rationale: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” The saying is as true for facilities managers at institutions of higher learning as it is for those schools’ enrollees. That’s why we are citing this outstanding joint effort by APPA, the association for real estate and facilities managers in the field of higher education, and ARCHIBUS in producing a series of data dashboards with near-real time readings on key performance indicators. The creation of these dashboard indicators, and their promotion by APPA to its members, will help educate FM professionals on the tools available to improve FM management at colleges and universities, where cost control is vital in keeping higher education affordable.
• CAFM Techniques and ARCHIBUS, Inc. for Global Deployment at Agilent Technologies
  
  Rationale: You can’t manage what you can’t measure…but Agilent Technologies is doing better at both when it comes to its facilities management. This, thanks to a productive partnership with ARCHIBUS. The global scope of implementation at Agilent Technologies, a world leader in measurement tools for advanced electronics and other industries, made its deployment of ARCHIBUS a text book study in creating the right technical solution to meet customer needs, as well as an example of deadline-driven efficiency and successful cooperation between Business Partner CAFM Techniques and ARCHIBUS.
• ARCHIBUS Solution Centers and Visser Software, Inc. for Deployment at Citigroup
  
  Rationale: Still the largest financial services organization in the world, Citigroup relied on the combined efforts of Visser Software and ARCHIBUS Solution Centers to create an international-and cost-effective-solution for its far-flung properties that Citi could take to the bank.

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Distinguished Author Award

To the person whose article or research paper raises the awareness of the importance of FM automation, and whose vision and efforts in the face of obstacles and pitfalls has resulted in major success.

State of Missouri-David Mosby

Rationale: As eloquent as he is effective in his position as Missouri’s Director of Facilities Management, Design and Construction, David Mosby’s words in a recently penned white paper, making the case for ARCHIBUS to the Missouri State Legislature, are as memorable as his deeds in demonstrating how effective real estate and facilities management can be achieved. The “Show Me” state is now being shown over $11 million in annual savings by using ARCHIBUS.

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Application Excellence Award

This award is being presented to the organizations that have demonstrated a unique, innovative application of the ARCHIBUS software to their company's own needs and overall structure. All of these organizations can be viewed as explorers and visionaries who, early on, had the courage to "push the envelope" and "see outside of the box." None of them are new to the challenges and rewards of TIFM.

• BNL Gruppo BNP PARIBAS-Leonardo Cavallari, Pasquale Mundo, Ugo Marchetti
  
  Rationale: “Bellisima!” That’s what they’re saying about the new, improved efficiency of Italy’s Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL). BNL, acquired in 2006 by French banking and financial group BNP Paribas, had made the decision to outsource its day-to-day facilities management function. Responding to competitive pressures in the banking industry, it wanted to create a more streamlined internal facilities management department that could focus on more value-added activities such as cost control, quality control, and long-range planning, among other goals.
  
  To date, BNL's third-party outsourcing arrangement has resulted in a 46% reduction in staff, an increase in planned activities, a 79% increase in maintenance productivity, and a general improvement in overall work quality by meeting quality certification and SLA parameters.
• Kellogg, Brown and Root-Bret Barcik, Paul Cline, Michelle West
  
  Rationale: One of the largest and most geographically dispersed engineering, construction and services companies of its kind, Kellogg, Brown and Root and its team of professionals are cited for their extensive and innovative implementation of ARCHIBUS Space Management (domestically and internationally) into new functional areas-most recently, Parking Administration. With XML transfers of parking data and better analysis of it, they are able to negotiate more favorable leases that will help keep the company competitive and profitable for another 88 years.
• Melbourne Cricket Club-Martin Blake
  
  Rationale: Using a hodge-podge of paper-and spreadsheet-based systems to manage its extensive properties just wasn’t cricket. That’s why Australia’s Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) awarded ICAD Consultants a contract to implement an Asset Management System (AMS) using ARCHIBUS in an implementation that has really gone to bat for this important sports institution. The overall objective of the AMS was to have a fully integrated system to undertake all the functions required for the lifecycle management of Melbourne Cricket Club’s various asset groups. The assets represent one of the main sports facilities in Australia and the region-Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)-and include: building structure, building fabric, building services, land and ground, plant & equipment, services, and so forth.
  
  The project consists of three phases that will implement ARCHIBUS: Asset Management, Works Management, Condition Assessment & Compliance, Property & Lease Management, Risk Management, Strategic Management and Utility Management in off-the-shelf or customized versions. Now ARCHIBUS is as much of a hit as anything one might see on an MCC cricket field.
• PNC Bank-Terry Maruca, Ray Pader, Leo Augustyniak, John Ponter
  
  Rationale: Saving money and saving the environment is an enviable return from an ARCHIBUS investment. Those two goals were, in fact, realized at PNC Bank, where real estate decisions must be a key component in an overall corporate strategy for success. In the Realty Services Division of PNC, the goal was to provide the tools needed to allow PNC to maximize efficiency, make sound real estate decisions, and to support a positive influence on the communities it serves. In addition to supporting its “Going Green” initiative by helping PNC recycle 95% of material in a building it demolished, ARCHIBUS Space Management is also lowering PNC’s building costs per square foot and producing significant company-wide cost savings. The PNC implementation demonstrates how real estate technology supports corporate strategies in the areas of efficiency, growth, and community.
• Serco-Kevin Rye
  
  Rationale: With healthcare costs constantly rising, facilities managers must rise to the challenge of delivering preventive care that helps control facilities expense-something that Serco is helping its clients to accomplish with ease. Serco provides wide-ranging, non-clinical support services to health customers in Europe and Asia Pacific, and was involved in two of the first waves of hospital Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) in the UK with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and Wishaw General Hospital. Through its work with BP MASS Systems, Serco’s use of ARCHIBUS has made it a vital tool for providing hard and soft services within their healthcare contracts. The use of ARCHIBUS and related technologies (Web, handheld tools, etc.) overcame the challenges presented by a public/private finance contractual structure as well as enabling the future centralizing of FM technology within Serco Health in the UK.
• State of Missouri-Trent Blair
  
  Rationale: The State of Missouri is responsible for making monthly payments on over 2,500 utility bills. With the help of consultant Trent Blair, the state has implemented the Space Management, Furniture & Equipment Management, and Building Operations Management applications. The open architecture of ARCHIBUS has allowed the development of a Utility Bill Management System which has a projected savings of 400 person-hours per month. Now Missouri has, in its technology tool chest, its own form of power to serve citizens even more efficiently.
• USAA-Steven Baine, Todd Easley
  
  Rationale: USAA is a fully-integrated insurance and financial services firm specializing in serving the needs of current and former US military personnel. They have established a self-service, ARCHIBUS Web-based Move Management system where move and work order requests are generated in Maximo and in the organization’s IT asset management system. With a Capital Budgeting application on the way, and other efforts to make sure USAA’s operations also run with military precision, we salute Steven Baine and Todd Easley.

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Distinguished User Award

This award is presented to an organization or an individual who has provided sustained leadership in its FM automation practices and implementation.

• ADYAL Facilities-Philippe Bellini
  
  Rationale: France has always been known for its style-setting fashion and distinctive cuisine. Now it is also gaining a growing reputation for its technology substance. ADYAL Facilities and Philippe Bellini are recognized for their leading-edge implementations of an ARCHIBUS Web Central-based solution to serve the needs of France’s commercial real estate and other clients. Bellini is recognized for his success in signing contracts with major French clients including France Telecom Group, La Poste (the French state-run mail group), utility giant Gaz de France, General Electric and others, as well as his fully packaged services featuring a Web Portal for help desk, space management, and other capabilities.
• Amnesty International-David Rowe, Malu Suza
  
  Rationale: An organization with Amnesty International’s seriousness of purpose requires a real estate and facilities management solution to match. That’s why David Rowe and Malu Suza have received their Distinguished User Award for freeing that organization from the inefficiencies many non-profits experience in managing their physical resources. They’ve done this by using ARCHIBUS to capture a vast amount of foundation drawing, space, asset and other data to populate a comprehensive range of ARCHIBUS modules since the solution’s deployment in February of 2007. Rowe and Suza are recognized for their efforts to cut through red tape and implement a large system in a very short time span.
• Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Inc.-John Kuxhausen
  
  Rationale: Ball Aerospace & Technologies, a major defense contractor based in Boulder, Colorado, kept its entire lease and cost information on Excel spreadsheets, with all other information kept in hard copy files. After using a lease management application for a number of years that had limited reporting capabilities, Ball’s John Kuxhausen, a longstanding ARCHIBUS loyalist and advocate, implemented the ARCHIBUS Real Property & Lease Management application, permitting a wide range of lease data, as well as associated utility and other costs, to be integrated into ARCHIBUS. The application has allowed Ball to finally consolidate, analyze, and share information throughout the company in a way that turns data into actionable knowledge, so that cost information can be manipulated, without requiring an accounting program; and easily create what-if planning scenarios. Adding new meaning to an old John Denver song, that achievement may be giving the FM staff at Ball a “Rocky Mountain High” of their own.
• Parsons at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center-Gary Craig
  
  Rationale: Although he works at an organization focused to a large extent on escaping gravity, Gary Craig has two feet always planted firmly on the ground when it comes to facilities management. He has been instrumental in implementing and overseeing ARCHIBUS for Parsons at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. His work is making that organization a more productive and efficient player in tracking and maintaining a multitude of properties and assets in support of the advancement of astrophysics and space flight. Gary’s most recent effort in creating a first responders database underscores this proactive orientation toward managing places and protecting their occupants.
• Resolution Asset Management-Elaine Clark
  
  Rationale: Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Resolution Asset Management is a worldwide financial services and mutual fund firm whose super-hero corporate marketing characters could be joined by Elaine Clark, who has done heroic work in implementing, maintaining, and evolving the company’s ARCHIBUS solution through several organizational restructurings. She has successfully expanded the system from its use as a space utilization tool to encompass full space management, maintenance management and reporting functions.
• Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospitals System-Paul Epler, Duane Oberquell, Dee Kotla
  
  Rationale: Nothing can inflict more pain at a healthcare institution than the discovery that money is being wasted on inefficient real estate and facilities management practices. That’s why Paul, Duane, and Dee have been singled out for their own world-class practice in delivering a healthier bottom line using ARCHIBUS at Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospitals System. For the last year, the team has been focusing on workflow rules and maximizing the ARCHIBUS Telecommunications & Cabling application to improve telecom services. They successfully track over 20,000 phone line types, including authorization codes, voice data, fax modems and more in 133 buildings.
• State of Missouri-David Mosby
  
  Rationale: “The buck stops here.” The phrase was popularized by a sign on the desk of Missouri-born President Harry Truman. It is also a take-charge statement that resonates with David Mosby, the State of Missouri’s Director of Facilities, Management Design, and Construction. The deployment of ARCHIBUS in State of Missouri office buildings is improving building system reliability, and will organize and focus maintenance activities. In addition to tracking and generating work orders, the system captures critical data on equipment, labor utilization, and stock levels allowing the benchmarking and management of expenditures. Additional significant savings are expected to result from the establishment of a single space management authority capable of generating greater utilization of facilities and infrastructure.
  
  To date, the Office of Administration has demonstrated the power of strategically managing over 25 million square feet of space in state-owned and leased office facilities through the use of ARCHBUS and has resulted in direct savings to the State of over $11 million per year. Moreover, every effort will be made to regularly assess current and future needs to assure that facilities solutions are accurate, timely, and in the best interest of the taxpayers. Make that saying, “The bucks start here.” when it comes to what smart facilities management can do.

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Outstanding Educator Award

This award recognizes excellence in developing curriculum and instructing students in FM automation at an accredited college, university or institute.

• Harrington College of Design (Chicago)-Jeff Clark
  
  Rationale: Jeff Clark puts to rest the old saying that “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” His unparalleled knack for doing both in the pursuit of instructing others in the fundamentals and advanced practice of FM automation earns him this year’s Outstanding Educator Award.

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TIFM Best Practices Award
To the individual or team whose facility management approach has had a substantial, positive effect that has contributed to the success of many organizations.

• IBM Germany with ARCHIBUS Solution Centers-Germany
  
  Rationale: German engineering and ingenuity were both on display in the recent collaboration of IBM Germany’s Real Estate and Site Operations (RESO) with ARCHIBUS Solution Centers-Germany for customizing ARCHIBUS to manage fixed as well as desk-sharing users with variable sharing rates.
  
  IBM Germany provides fully equipped offices (to desk-sharing and fixed room users) and data-center space for diverse internal users. Equipping and usage of these buildings and areas vary by country, department and subsidiary. As a result, the organization of departments, along with cost-center and accounting information, changes frequently. That meant that RESO had to find a way to report accurate occupancy information to management in order to charge back occupancy costs via an interface to the user.
  
  
• Seoul Arts Center with ARCHIBUS Solution Centers-Korea
  
  Rationale: The arts of Korea meet the art of ARCHIBUS in this successful collaboration that will maintain the Seoul Arts Center’s physical environment in a way that also supports its cultural mission.
• University of Kent UK-Neil Higginson
  
  Rationale: The University of Kent is getting the advanced course in FM automation through Neil Higginson’s untiring work in improving the University’s operations through the implementation of best practices using ARCHIBUS. The University’s use of his systems and the development of handheld applications have set a benchmark for compliance, audit, and maintenance procedures that is becoming a standard within the university marketplace.

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TIFM Visionary of the Year Award

Presented to the individual whose vision and ideas exemplify the most innovative, far-seeing technical possibilities and strategies for FM automation. McKinsey Ltd.-Dara Clark Rationale: McKinsey Ltd.’s reputation as a business consulting firm is only amplified by the expertise of employees like Dara Clark, whose management of the company’s buildings and other assets make it the picture of efficiency that clients might emulate. Clark’s rigid hot desking policy has helped McKinsey drastically increase the utilization of high-cost workspaces that were unoccupied when consultants were working remotely.

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Users' Group Educational Excellence Award

Presented to the ARCHIBUS Users' Group that has experienced exceptional participation due to quality educational offerings and programs. The group consistently presents outstanding programs designed to meet the needs of the professional members.

• UK National ARCHIBUS Users’ Group-John Tomlinson
  
  Rationale: John Tomlinson’s unfailing instinct for identifying and presenting the essential in FM knowledge and techniques finds him going to the head of the class this year and earning the Users’ Group Educational Excellence Award. His sessions covering the support of the facilities cycle and other topics, as well as his attention to vertical market needs, make his efforts a model for others to emulate.

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Meeting Place of the Year Award

Meeting places for users' groups of the most historical or public significance.

• Excitech UK Users’ Group-Royal Air Force Museum Hendon
  
  Rationale: Users’ Group Meetings can sometimes take flight, especially when they’re held in the right location. At the end of a recent Excitech UK Users’ Group Meeting, which was combined with a new prospect presentation, users had the opportunity to walk around the RAF Museum and view the collection of RAF and USAF aircraft dating from 1911 up to 1971. In recognition of it being one of the winds beneath ARCHIBUS’ wings, the Excitech UK Users’ Group gets a Meeting Place of the Year Award.
• UK National ARCHIBUS Users’ Group-University of the Arts London
  
  Rationale: The award-winning Millbank Campus, now the Chelsea College of Art and Design, is located on the Thames River near the Houses of Parliament. The historic campus, the former site of the Royal Army Medical College and the Millbank Penitentiary (the last point of departure for Australia-bound convicts), was an ideal setting for a meeting of minds on the uses of space and the historical data that can improve its management.

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Golden Circle Award

Awarded to an organization or an individual whose facility management practices contribute to creating and managing productive work environments and support objectives of the corporate business plan. These organizations and individuals demonstrate consistent and outstanding facility management strategies resulting in improved quality of service and facility effectiveness, and their efforts contribute to the overall profitability of their organizations or those which they service.

• Johns Hopkins Hospital-Thomas Lentz
  
  Rationale: For his intensive care in integrating ARCHIBUS with Maximo, and for a recently completed integration with SAP, Tom has been critical to their success in getting nearly every Johns Hopkins entity to use the ARCHIBUS platform. He has saved the organization large sums of money and become a visionary in the IWMS space.
• National Museum of Science & Industry UK-Tim Abraham
  
  Rationale: Not interested in creating FM museum pieces, Tim Abraham always has an eye on the future and was instrumental in creating a more efficient facilities operation by consolidating space management, maintenance management, and asbestos management on the ARCHIBUS platform. His work has greatly contributed to that institution’s continuation as a major education and museum center through better facilities management practices.
• Partners HealthCare-Dave Fontana
  
  Rationale: With an aversion to band-aid solutions, Dave Fontana and the Partners CAD/CAFM Team are cited for development of a comprehensive system tracking a 5,000,000 square foot portfolio in a fast-growing medical environment.
• State of Missouri-David Mosby
  
  Rationale: David Mosby receives this award for his vision in implementing an enterprise-wide implementation of ARCHIBUS through the State of Missouri’s Division of Facility Management, Design and Construction. That implementation manages over 25 million square feet of facilities to date, with the help of the GridLogix EnNet application, to create Automated Enterprise Management that is saving the state over $11 million annually.

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Platinum Circle Award—The ARCHIBUS “Hall of Fame”

Awarded to an individual whose facility management practices contribute to creating and managing productive work environments that support business plan objectives. These individuals demonstrate consistent and outstanding facility management strategies resulting in improved quality of service and facility effectiveness, and their efforts contribute to the overall profitability of their organizations or those which they serve. They have all demonstrated clear, consistent vision, proven value and quantifiable results in record time, while continually expanding the reach of ARCHIBUS throughout the enterprise.

• First National Bank, Inc.
  Brenda Dooley, Mindy Tene, Jim McDaniel, Phyllis Futch, Kevin Merritt
  
  Rationale: While the US has been off the gold standard for years, First National Bank has created its own platinum standard in facilities management. Under the leadership of Brenda Dooley, we recognize Brenda and her team for their technical mastery and management mettle in pursuing a vision of greater efficiency and information-sharing through a single data repository approach toward its facilities management needs.
  
  Centralized ARCHIBUS Space Management, as well as Building Operations Management using PDAs, allows the bank to capture and report statistical and analytical data faster and more accurately. In combination with First National’s other applications-Furniture & Equipment Management, Parking Administration, and Strategic Master Planning, among others-the bank’s ARCHIBUS implementation is helping that organization create and manage productive work environments that support business objectives.

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Best Customer Service and Support Award

Awarded to the ARCHIBUS Business Partner who has demonstrated consistent, exemplary service and support of a client’s ARCHIBUS implementation, providing both technical and business expertise.

• ARCHIBUS, Inc.-Tom Nugent
  
  Rationale: While it’s unusual to have a non-Business Partner nominated for the award this year, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that ARCHIBUS’ own Tom Nugent gets it in 2007. And why not? His total customer focus has made him, and ARCHIBUS, what they are today. Maybe the only real surprise is that he didn’t get the Best Customer Service and Support Award sooner.

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ADN/Developer of the Year

Presented to the ARCHIBUS Developer(s) who excels in developing and marketing add-on modules to the ARCHIBUS family of products, on a global basis.

• Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
  
  Rationale: It would seem you can do no wrong when your business has both “civil” and “environmental” in its name. And Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. is doing everything right when it comes to being a font of creativity and social responsibility thanks to its applications that protect the environment and extend ARCHIBUS’ scope and relevance in the FM world.

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Best Technical Support Contributor and Team Player

Presented to an individual in the ARCHIBUS community who has most contributed to the problem resolution and product improvement efforts of the ARCHIBUS Technical Support Team with regular Wish List items and follow-up feedback-always in an amiable and pleasant manner.

• Excitech-Jamie Webb
  
  Rationale: Problem resolution? Check. Product improvement? Check. Amiable and pleasant? Double check. Jamie Webb can seemingly do it all-including taking some of the best photographs of the 2007 International ARCHIBUS Users’ Conference in April-without breaking a sweat. Any team with Jamie is a team anyone should be on.

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ARCHIBUS Top Gun Award™

To the individuals who consistently perform ARCHIBUS-related facilities management automation and infrastructure management activities at the pinnacle of professional ability. These individuals show exemplary technical, management, and communication skills in the design, implementation, maintenance, and redeployment of ARCHIBUS.

• Visser Software Services, Inc.-Gary Bilal
  
• AOS Madrid-Paloma Callejo
  
• PROCOS-Bart Vander Schoot
  
  They’re good. Very good. Enough said.

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President's Citation

• Applied Data Systems, Inc.-John Filippi
  
  Rationale: Just consider it the ARCHIBUS equivalent of the Motion Picture Academy’s Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award. John Filippi continues to deliver a great performance with his technical vision, customer focus, forward-leaning business development, and his unrivaled talent as a social director/event planner for ad hoc beach soccer games and other team-building events at ARCHIBUS conferences.

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