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Get to know IPF: Patti Ray
IPF Building Services – a 317-employee behemoth that includes three shifts, five unions, four business areas, nine sub-business areas, 15 shops, 27 supervisors and 54 crews. With constant promotions, retirements and new hires to sort out, keeping this team running like a well-oiled machine is no small task; but Patti Ray and her fellow Building Services Business Office (BSBO) administrative staff pull it off every day, smiles included.
Leading the way to a sustainable future
Ann Erhardt, IPF chief sustainability officer, was recently elected Chair of the Board of Directors for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) organization.
IPF partnership with Consumers Energy powers big savings for MSU
In early 2020, IPF will complete a project to install close to 50,000 new LED tubes in existing fluorescent-light fixtures in nine buildings across campus. These new lights have the potential to save MSU millions in energy and maintenance costs over the course of their 11+ year lifespan.
Get to know your IPF crews: Key Shop/Security/Electronics
A world away in remote Afghanistan, Eric Strouse, 18-year veteran of the United States Air Force and Air National Guard, and supervisor of IPF’s Access Control and Security Systems department, focuses on the mission at hand – helping ensure the safety of the lives of the pilots he works closely with by maintaining their fighter jets’ weapon systems. With him, is a little piece of IPF – a photo of his crew members at home.
IPF partners with the MSU Museum to bring the world to campus
The MSU Museum recently partnered with IPF and other campus units to create the new Science on a Sphere exhibit, a room-sized, global display system that uses computers and video projectors to display planetary data onto a six-foot diameter sphere, giving the effect of a giant animated globe.
IPF student employee carries a surplus of responsibilities
It’s the day of the Shop Everything MSU event at the MSU Surplus Store, and the event coordinator is moving across the sales floor faster than a discounted iMac. She’s darting from vendor to vendor making sure everyone has what they need, maintaining communication with dozens of store staff to ensure that the event runs as smoothly as possible.
Get to know IPF: Stacy Nurenberg
Stacy Nurenberg’s connection to IPF has been a long and rewarding one. From an early 1990s “Take Your Daughter to Work Day” when a young farm girl learned firsthand what her dad’s job at the MSU Physical Plant was all about, through four years as a student employee while earning her Engineering degree, up to present day where Nurenberg has received the IPF Employee of the Quarter Award.
Keeping the Spartan spirit flowing
Spartan Stadium; football, fans, food and fun, all under Michigan autumn skies. Concessions and amenities running smoothly, regardless of the weather. But what happens when temperatures fall, and winter’s chill sweeps through the concourses, determined to freeze pipes, immobilize fixtures and put the fun on ice?
Facilities Focus - December 2019 - Volume 8
Volume eight of the Facilities Focus e-newsletter
Get to know your IPF crews: Stockroom
What do you get when you combine a hardware store, a car buyer, personal shoppers and a rent-all store? You get the IPF Materials and Logistics Stockroom. Its staff handles everything from van purchasing to jackhammer loans, with a whole lot in between.