Laser Facility Management

Just Dropped 📖! Check out our latest Facilitator issue featuring our 2024 Best Practices book which covers five relevant topics for restaurant facility professionals and presents guidelines, methods and techniques to better equip and advance their knowledge. Our 2024 Best Practices Topics: - CMMS - Facility Manager Tools - Prepping Operations for Emergencies - Store Safety - Work-Life Balance Read our August/September #Facilitatormagazine issue here: https://loom.ly/aFT6Ze0

This Summer I set out to start a Chicago area networking group! The intent was to start up a group of Chicago Retail Ops, Project, FM, and Construction professionals that might want to keep in touch and share best practices. The greater Chicago area is home to dozens upon dozens of professionals who likely don't even know how many local resources in our industry exist. I lived in Chicago for 8 yrs, met my wife there...now married 32 yrs!, and travel through the area ALOT. And it is the one major city where there is not a real established networking group for our industry that I could identify. As one of my favorite cities, I thought, why not! They say to launch you have to take that first step so myself, along with the support of the ConnexFM | The Multi-Site Facilities Management Network and my firm, Laser Facility Management I simply decided we would create an event! My ask was simple..."please consider joining myself and others in a very casual...NOBODY SELLS...dinner! ...and dinner of course is on us! I chose one of my favorite spots in the Western Suburbs where I knew the venue, food, and service where exceptional...while also being a casual atmosphere where networking could flourish... Lucca Osteria & Bar. Then simply began reaching out to the Chicago FM community. So to those who joined our first Chicago FM & Construction Networking Dinner last week…THANK YOU!  I have to say the folks at Lucca Osteria again outdid themselves! The venue’s private party area was absolutely amazing and the opportunity to share this with you all was my sincere pleasure! And to those who could not make it to our first event…thanks for keeping us on your networking list and we look forward to the next opportunity where we can again try to continue the networking started last week. I look forward to the next event…I’m thinking of a September virtual meet up…think of it as a virtual happy hour…I will send info to all interested. Beyond that I will be speaking with a number of you to see how we might re-engage for another in-person event in Q4. Anyone local to the Chicagoland area who would like to be on my e-mailing list for future events...message me here! Thank you again. I’m definitely blessed to have met all and to call many of you friends already! ConnexFM | The Multi-Site Facilities Management Network Connex Foundation, Inc. ICSC NACS IFMA Restaurant Facility Management Association Total Retail RetailSpaces Retail Dive

Friday, June 28, 2024 is National SAFER Workplace Day, established by tec.nicum to create awareness about the SAFER Workplace initiative. This day promotes workplace safety, with a heightened focus on machine safety, to reduce the potential of near misses, accidents, and injuries.

I love to ask questions...of our team, of our clients, of those I haven't yet had the chance to work with... "what do you value"; "what brings you PEACE OF MIND"? SPECS ICSC FacilitiesNet/NFMT NACS IFMA ConnexFM | The Multi-Site Facilities Management Network Restaurant Facility Management Association Total Retail RetailSpaces Retail Dive Restaurant Dive

"As we set today aside to honor and thank our veterans, let us be mindful that we should do this every day of the year and not just one." (Pennington) A special THANK YOU to all of our peers in the Real Estate, Sourcing, Facilities Maintenance, and Construction fields who chose to serve...we thank you for that service! ICSC SPECS IFMA NACS Restaurant Facility Management Association ConnexFM | The Multi-Site Facilities Management Network Connex Foundation, Inc.