IFMA Boston celebrates 8th Annual Awards of Excellence and held the annual IFMA Boston Golf Classic

IFMA Boston celebrated its 8th annual Awards of Excellence event on May 26th at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel with nearly 400 in attendance. Alicia Dernier, CFM of Creative Office Pavilion and IFMA Boston's president resided over the event along with Joe Flynn, LEED AP of Margulies Perruzzi Architects (IFMA Boston president elect) and keynote speaker, Kent Larson, principal research scientist of MIT Media Lab. There were several individual awards given during the evening including the President's Award which goes to someone within the chapter that has gone over and beyond the call of duty as a member, volunteer and industry colleague. This year's recipient was Joy Shapiro of Diversified Project Management. Other individual awards included the Exemplary End User award given to Chris Gilman, CFM of EInk and the Exemplary Service Provider award going to James Koloski of RDK Engineers. Richard Christiano, CFM, a faculty member at Wentworth Institute of Technology was recognized with the Educator & Professional Development Award and Thomas Bourgeois, a student at Wentworth was named the Emerging Leader for this year. The Best Practice awards recognize individuals, projects and/or processes in three different categories: Small, Medium and Large. This year's award recipients included private and public facilities—all exhibiting excellence in their facilities. The Best Practice: Small Project award went to Manulife/John Hancock for their South Boston operations center. The Best Practice: Medium Project award went to two recipients—EMD Serono in Billerica, nominated by Jones Lang LaSalle and to the Museum of Fine Arts, nominated by Acentech. The Best Practice: Large Project award winner this year was Ropes & Gray with their large scale relocation to the Prudential Tower and was nominated by Structure Tone. The chapter recognizes excellence in sustainability each year with two awards. This year's recipient of the Best Practice: Sustainability Existing LEED Principles went to Biogen Idec, nominated by NELSON Black Cow. The second award for Best Practice: Sustainability Practices went to TIAA-CREF at 99 High St. and was nominated by Jones Lang LaSalle. We encourage everyone to start preparing their awards submissions for the 9th Annual Awards of Excellence event to take place next May! IFMA Boston Spends the First Day of Summer on the Golf Course IFMA Boston held their annual IFMA Boston Golf Classic at Stow Acres Country Club on Tuesday, June 21st. It was a beautiful day for this highly sought after event. They would like to thank their event sponsors for their support of this great event: Walsh Movers, Elaine Construction, Atlas Water Systems, CORT, CBT, Dellbrook Construction, Margulies Perruzzi Architects, Diversified Project Management, and Instant Sign Center and RD Weis Companies. The great weather was ideal for exceptional golf, which was exhibited in the stellar golf scores by this year's winners: Team Dacon with -14 on the north course and Team Walsh Movers with a -18 on the south course.