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With this annual award, Facility Executive magazine highlights individuals for work on a successful strategic initiative or construction project — recognizing the value they bring to their organizations.

Every day facility management professionals are making a significant impact on their organizations — and the scope of this work continues to expand further and in new directions. In 2003, Facility Executive magazine (then Today’s Facility Manager) launched its annual Facility Executive of the Year Award as one way to recognize these individuals, beyond the stories covered in the magazine year-round. (Read about the first award recipient here, Kelly Olds of Omaha, NE-based West Corporation – now Intrado.)facility management award

Now in its 18th year, the facility management award recognizes one facility management professional for his or her work on one of the following:

  • Strategic initiative that is effecting real change for the facilities they oversee — and their organizations overall
  • Major renovation or new construction project
  • Other high-impact program

The Facility Executive staff looks forward to recognizing another industry member with the award in the magazine’s February 2020 issue. Nominations are being accepted now for the 2020 Facility Executive of the Year Award. Materials are due by Tuesday, December 3, 2019. View the nomination form here.

Facility executives may nominate themselves for this facility management award, or they can be nominated by others. Each nominee must approve his/her nomination and should be currently be employed by the organization for which the project took place.

Most recently recognized — as 2019 Facility Executive of the Year — was Richie Stever, director of operations and maintenance at University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore, MD. The Facility Executive February 2019 article profiles Stever’s spearheading the creation of a Skilled Trades Apprenticeship Program at UMMC that recruits and trains new talent to the hospital’s facility management staff.

Other past winners include Kurt Beaudoin, senior facilities manager, adidas retail facilities (2018); Fred Reddig, director of facilities, NFL Detroit Lions (Ford Field) (2017); and Ralph Linne, director of county facilities, Hamilton County, Ohio (2016).

For more details on the 2020 Award and to view the nomination form, visit this link: facilityexecutive.com/FEY2020. Remember to submit by December 3, 2019. Questions? Please send an e-mail to Editor-in-Chief, Anne Cosgrove.