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Energy StarPARTNER of the YEAR

Energy Star Award – from left: Clark Reed, National Program Manager, ENERGY STAR Com-mercial Buildings, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Carolyn Snyder, Director of Climate Protection Partnerships Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Michael Roberts, Direc-tor, Energy, Atrium Health; Kady Cowen, Director, Environmental Sustainability Solutions, Atrium Health

Atrium Health has been awarded as a 2018 Energy star Partner of the Year. This prestigious award is the highest level of recognition that a corporate energy man-agement program can receive from the Environmental Protection Agency. In the last decade, only seven other hospitals/healthcare systems have been named Energy Star Partner of the Year. Energy Star Partners must perform at a superior level of energy management and meet the following criteria:

• Demonstrate best practices across the organization

• Prove organization-wide energy savings

• Participate actively and communicate the benefits of ENERGY STAR

The EPA specifically noted that Atrium Health had reduced energy use intensity by 18 percent over 7 million square feet of hospital space resulting in $9.2 million in energy cost savings since 2013; had earned ENERGY STAR certification (score of 75 or higher) for four facilities, including one hospital; and had conducted an ENERGY STAR Treasure Hunt at a hospital finding $75,000 in potential savings. Congratulations to Atrium Health their recognition.

ALEX HARWELLNCHEA 2018 Associate Board Member ElectDEWBERRY919.800.8179 mobile \ aharwell@dewberry.com

NCHEA SCHOLARSHIPCAPE FEAR FIELD TRIP

On April 24, Alex Harwell (NCHEA Associate Board Member Elect) and Dona Noblett (NCHEA Event Planner) had a field trip to Cape Fear Community Col-lege (CFCC).

Meeting and tours were fantastic, students seemed genuinely interested. We toured through classrooms and labs actively underway with students, had a lunch networking session with a group of engineering tech students where we talked about the healthcare engineering industry as a whole, and met with the faculty leadership. All the CFCC staff were very engaged with their students and their students success.

We worked out some of the details to accomplish the first NCHEA Scholarship. CFCC will be working on generating a list of recommended students for our consideration based on our criteria and faculty feedback. When we arrived, CFCC already had a packet and Scholar-ship Application ready for the students we met with. We’ll have our list of students by June 1st. continued on page 3

“What employers need to know, (CFCC) stu-dents have been taught how to learn”Daniel Hendrickson, Program Director of Mechanical Engineering Technology CFCC

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Once we have the list in-hand, we as a committee will review and select as many students as we want to split the $10K. This is up to us, it can be 2 or 3, or all of them, and we can base it on the candidate pool. We will need to have the students selected by July 1st.

We will be inviting students to attend our Wednesday, Opening Ceremony and all education sessions as well as Exhibit area. Gary Milewski, NCHEA President (and other board members) will have lunch with the students and Gary will be assigning liaisons to each of the 10 selected attendees for the Wednesday event. The liaisons will be responsible for guiding the students through the conference and keeping them flowing.

At the Business Meeting on Friday, August 10, we will have a short scholarship award ceremony. Student recipients will be announced and representatives from CFCC leadership and student recipients will speak.

NCHEA SCHOLARSHIPCAPE FEAR FIELD TRIP

One of the many benefits of being a full member of NCHEA is receiving the CHE and SrHE designations. To receive these designations will require some work on your part, but it’s worth it. If you’ve been a full member for at least four years and have attended the spring and annual meetings you are well on your way. When you become a CHE your recognized at the Annual Banquet where you will receive a beautiful plaque and lapel pin.

To see if you meet the criteria you can go to www.nchea.com sign in, and go to the members section and open the certifications tab. You can print the applica-tion for the CHE and SrHE certifications. Review the requirements to see how many points you have. Submission packets are due by July 1st. I would encourage you to start today and get them submitted. If you have any questions about the CHE or SrHE designations don’t hesitate to call William Baird (828-406-5422) or email williamgbairdjr@gmail.com.

CHE SrHEWhat LETTERS define you?

“There is no bad Knowledge”Mark Gray, Program Director of Electronics Engineering Technology CFCC

DISTRICT NEWSDistrict IDATE: March 15, 2018LOCATION: Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, NCMeeting Called to order. Financial report and prior meeting notes read. Both were accepted.Good attendance with approximately 15 members in attendance. Next meeting date. June 8th at Boone Country Club. Next meeting agenda: plan for better develop relationships between Full and Associate members, business portion of meeting will be to vote on As-sociate Member elect.

District IIIDATE: March 15, 2018LOCATION: Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, NCMeeting was called to order. Financial report and prior meeting minutes were read by Cecil Watson. Both financial report and minutes were accepted. Jeff Forsyth informed the district about NCHEA donating $10,000 to Cape Fear Community College to award 2 scholarships in their trades program. Each district is donating $1,500 and the main body of NCHEA will be donating the remaining amount.Jeff then brought up that we will be doing out joint venture with district 4 to offer a summer meeting/symposium on June 14th and 15th in New Bern. We will be submitting to ASHE to allow CEU’s and PHE’s for those that need the credits. Details to be sent out soon. Rick Holmes spoke briefly to inform everyone that the district 3 golf is confirmed for October 11, 2018. Rick stated that he was also heading up the annual NCHEA golf event this August and will be adjusting to keep the timeframe around 5 hours. Jeff Forsyth then informed everyone that those who do not play golf NCHEA is looking into charting a fishing boat for those that are interested. Jeff then asked for anyone that is wanting to volun-teer for serving district 3 as an officer this coming year to think about it before our June meeting. Meeting was adjourned.

Date and Time: Thursday, Jun 14, 2018 06:00 PM to Friday, Jun 15, 2018 02:30 PM EasternLocation: BridgePoint Hotel and Marina | 101 Howell Road | New Bern, NC 28562 MapNCHEA District III & IV Summer Symposium update:Registration started last week and the Bridgepoint Hotel would like to remind everyone to book early if you wish to spend the weekend in New Bern! Our NCHEA block of rooms is going quickly. Information will be out shortly on the Golf Tournament that is being planned for Thursday, June 14thWe would like to thank the following sponsors that have signed up to support the NCHEA District III & IV Summer Symposium.• Specified Technologies, Inc. Thank you for being our Friday, June 15th Lunch Sponsor• Brady Services & CRC Disaster Response Experts, Thank you for being our Break Sponsors for Friday, June 15th.Please look over the agenda and consider joining us in June. Should you wish to promote your company through this event, there are still several significant sponsorships available. The “Connections Symposium” | The NCHEA District III and IV invite you to join us for an Educational Sympo-sium on June 14th and 15th in beautiful New Bern, NC. As the first joint event for the NCHEA District III and IV, we look forward to networking with our peers from across Eastern North Carolina.New Bern - North Carolina’s First State Capital offers a scenic location, wonderful seafood, great shopping and many historic places to visit.Hotel: The BridgePointe Hotel & Marina is a charming riverfront hotel with 115 newly renovated guest rooms as well as New Bern’s premier banquet, meeting, conference and event center.Contact the BridgePointe Hotel & Marina at 252-636-3637 and mention the NCHEA to get our rates.Rooms are being held for the NCHEA at the discounted rate of $87.95 during the conference. Weekend rates, for anyone who wishes to make a mini-vacation of it, are discounted to $105.55 for our Group. PLEASE MENTION THE NCHEA WHEN YOU BOOK to ensure that you are afforded our block of discounted rate rooms.District III and IV will be facilitating a “Guest Event” for our Spouse & Significant other to participate in during the conference (details to follow) or you might want to visit www.visitnewbern.com to get ideas of things to do on your own!

JOINING FORCESDistrict 3&4 Educational Symposium

Agenda Draft:Thursday, June 14, 20186:00 pm - Networking Reception - Cocktail Hour8:00 pm - Dinner on your ownFriday, June 15, 20187:30 am - Breakfast & Networking8:15 am - Welcome and Introductions8:30 am - First Presenter9:15 am - Second Presenter10:00am - Sponsored Break10:30 am - Third Presenter11:15 am - District Meetings - Breakout11:45 am - Lunch1:00 pm - Fourth Presenter1:45 pm - Closing Remarks2:00 pm - Afternoon Break2:30 pm - Bus to Carolina East Medical Center Tour

Please sign up:https://www.123signup.com/event?id=hsmdzShould you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to: Cecil Watson at: cecil.watsonjr@unchealth.unc.edu or Nancy Padgett at: nancy.padgett@bradyservices.comWe look forward to seeing everyone there!Jeff ForsythNCHEA District III Chairperson

KEYNOTE SPONSORS

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SPECIAL EVENT SPONSORS

GOLD SPONSORS

SILVER SPONSORS

BRONZE SPONSORSKEN GREGORY CONSULTING DUSTY DUCTS, INC. LEACH WALLACE ASSOCIATES, INC

MCKIM & CREED CAPITOL POWER GROUP PDI

JERRY THOMPSON PE CHENCHEA 2018 Vendor ChairDUKE MEDICAL CENTEROffice: 919-684-4004nchea.vendorchair@gmail.com

SPONSORSHIPS 2018www.nchea.com66th NCHEA Annual Conference & Exhibition | August 7th – August 10th 2018 Wilmington Convention Center | WILMINGTON, North Carolina

NCHEA Spring Seminar - March 14-16, 2018 | Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Still looking to get your company more exposure and support NCHEA? Looking to have a more prominent booth location? Missed out on a booth this year and wanting to make sure your company is still involved? You can accomplish these things through being a Sponsor for the NCHEA Annual Conference. Gold, Silver and Bronze Sponsorships are still available. Check out the NCHEA website for the benefits of a sponsorship. Thank you to all our sponsors and for all you do to make NCHEA a SPIRIT filled association.

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2018 BOARD OF DIRECTORS and STATE OFFICERS

PresidentGary Milewski CHFM CHENovant Health910-817-6823gamilewski@novanthealth.org

President-Elect Larry HolderDuke Regional919-470-8167larry.holder@duke.edu

Immediate Past PresidentCorrespondence SecretaryWilliam Baird SrHE828-406-5422williamgbairdjr@gmail.com

SecretaryPhilip A. JohnsonWell-Spring Retirement Community336-707-6200pjohnson@well-spring.org Secretary-ElectJeff ForsythDuke Regional Hospital919-470-8191jeff.forsyth@duke.edu

TreasurerMike CookeCone Health - Wesley Long Hospital336-832-1766 M 336-362-5907mike.cooke@conehealth.com

Program ChairAlan Owens CHFMMargaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital828-674-0349alan.owens@unchealth.unc.edu

Vendor ChairJerry Thompson PE CHEDuke Health919-684-4004jerry.thompson@duke.edu Associate MemberSara RiggenbachTerracon Consultants, Inc.704-594-8968 M 704-993-8892sara.riggenbach@terracon.com

Associate Member ElectAlex HarwellDewberryOffice: 919.424.3769 Mobile: 919.800.8179aharwell@dewberry.com

Energy LiasonDanny Bland CHFM CHENovant Health336-476-2790debland@novanthealth.org

District I - ChairDeon Lewis CHFMCaroMont Health704-834-2809 M 704-860-5167robert.oakman@unchealth.unc.edu

District I - Vice-ChairRobert OakmanUNC Pardee Hospital828-696-4732robert.oakman@pardeehospital.org

District I - Secretary/TreasurerJason WrightCaromont Health704-834-2081wrightjd@caromonthealth.org

District II - ChairArthur Blue CHEMoses H. cone336-832-7899arthur.blue@conehealth.com

District II - Vice-ChairJon WoodsMorehead Memorial Hospital336-623-9711jonwoods@morehead.org

District II - Secretary/TreasurerMike CookeCone Health - Wesley Long Hospital336-832-1766mike.cooke@conehealth.com

District III - ChairJeff ForsythDuke Regional Hospital919-470-8191jeff.forsyth@duke.edu

District III - Vice-ChairJohn HortonWakeMed Health & Hospital614-477-6919woodybrutus@gmail.com

District III - Secretary/TreasurerCecil WatsonUNC Rex Healthcarececil.watson@unchealth.unc.edu

District IV - ChairOpen

District IV - Vice-ChairDavid Bales CHFMScotland Memorial Hospital910-291-7581david.bales@scotlandhealth.org

District IV - Secretary/TreasurerJoe Buri MS, CHFM, CHSP, CHE, CEMSoutheastern Health910-671-5675buri01@southeasternhealth.org

2018 PLANNING COMMITTEEPresidentGary Milewski CHFM CHEProgram ChairAlan Owens CHFMVendor ChairJerry Thompson PE CHESecretaryPhilip A. JohnsonSecretary-ElectJeff ForsythEvent CoordinatorDona NoblettGolf ChairRick Holmes

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2018 ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITIONWILMINGTON, NC AUGUST 7- 10, 2018 Board Meeting - Mon, August 6 Golf - August 7

Our 2018 Spring Seminar was a tremendous success- a big thank you to all of our speakers, sponsors and attendees! I have received lots of positive feedback on the program from our membership, and the evaluations showed a high level of satisfaction with both the content and quality of the presentations. Bronkar Lee gave us an excellent keynote, and there is a good possibility we will see him again soon (in a slightly different capacity), so stay tuned!

The program for our Annual Conference in Wilmington is coming together nicely, and I think you will find it just as informative and engaging as our sessions at Pinehurst. Details are forthcoming but I encourage all of you to make arrangements to join us August 7-11 and be a part of what is sure to be a fantastic event. Again, thank you for your support of NCHEA and I look forward to seeing everyone soon.

ALAN OWENS UNC Pardee HospitalProgram Chair | NCHEA 2018nchea.programchair@gmail.com

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Story on front cover: As a part of our ongoing efforts to increase our young member participation and promote our industry’s opportunities and needs to the next generation of technicians and facility managers, we have started a community college scholarship pilot program with Cape Fear Com-munity College in Wilmington, NC.

At the Spring Seminar we kicked off our campaign with donations totaling: $1250.00, while having fun! Spring Seminar Opening Reception gave everyone the opportunity to “start their engines” and race Daytona or Nascaar tracks! Tickets for racing, Orange bucket passed around, and Mike Cooke, Treasurer, selling everything that wasn’t nailed down! Help us reach (or exceed) our goal - DONATE TODAY!

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