Resources Offered:

Employment:

• We have a position available within the Facilities Management Department at our Headquarters location in Birmingham, AL. Posted by an IFMA member.
• University Career Services (UCS) at the University of Houston has volunteered the use of its online job placement services to Hurricane Katrina refugees who have relocated to Houston. If you are interested in hiring one or more relocated job candidates, the procedure is easy: just visit the UCS website (www.career.uh.edu) and post your job(s). Click on the special "Katrina Storm Victims: Post a Job; Search for a Job" link from the home page and follow the prompts. You may indicate how you want interested candidates to reply (e-mail, fax, phone, in-person, etc.). This database has been set up expressly for Katrina refugees and it is separate from the regular JOBank and JobScan services. It is free to all users.
• If anyone in the interior design profession is looking for work please contact us at 225-766-8889 or e-mail at this address. Baton Rouge location.
• Anyone possibly interested in relocating to Birmingham, AL? Graham & Company, Inc., is hiring a Property Manager.

Disaster Recovery:

• For those that lost facilities management software and data as a result of Hurricane Katrina, NorthWrite Inc would like to donate our web-based platform. Tools include work order management, preventative maintenance, project management, document management, energy management, utility bill management, wireless monitoring, and more. Our customer base includes corporate campuses (Ecolab, Honeywell, Nike), numerous community and technical colleges, hospitals and property management. We understand that your network might take time coming back online - our offer stands. Please call NorthWrite with any needs you may have.
• Catastrophe Response Teams are mobilized and are currently onsite in the Gulf Coast region. If you know of any of our fellow IFMA members that could use some help please forward them the contact information below. Our 24 hour toll free emergency hotline number is 888-327-9664. Members of the Capital Chapter.
• Registered architect will offer advice and/or assistance.
• Nationwide roofing contractor network is mobilizing this week with current customer roof issues, and will be in all areas with men and material to repair all types of roofs. 314.333.4704 Eric Kirberg
• Members of IFMA in the Phoenix area have professional resources available in fire sprinkler, alarm and pumps. We could offer organizational support and assistance with recovery planning on inspections and certifications of fire systems at facilities that need to be brought into service quickly.
• I am and IFMA member and I have experience in real estate, construction or project management. I am certainly available by phone and would take a week of company leave time to support recovery/reconstruction efforts.
• IFMA member has great organizational skills and expertise in many different areas. I could dedicate 4 weeks to volunteer of my own vacation time to assist.
• IFMA member recommends "a GREAT roofer/contractor in St. Tammany...his name is Wayne Butrie, 985-778-8809. Honest, licensed, and insured. Great guy.
• Southpro Restoration Services is an IFMA Member in Austin, Houston & San Antonio – we are doing restoration work for commercial facilities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
  

Temporary Housing:

• Michigan-area member is willing to "Adopt a Family / Share Our Residence", w/ Katrina Survivors. While the husband (or wife) is busy recovering from the FM aspects of Katrina, the spouse and children are more than welcome to call our residence in Michigan home, until they get back on their feet. We have plenty of room, great schools, and a caring attitude. If any of our IFMA members and families could use this type of assistance, please do not hesitate to notify Michael Edgar, CFM.
• Boston-area member can house a single person looking to relocate to Boston due to Hurricane Katrina. Free airline miles may be offered as well. Inquires regarding this availability should be directed to costa@ifma.org.

Office Furniture:

• Humanscale Corporation has seating, keyboard and ergonomic accessory production to respond quickly to customers that have been displaced and need to move into swing space. Humanscale is offering special pricing and a rapid delivery program for Freedom and Liberty seating, Keyboard trays and miscellaneous ergonomic accessory products. For a better understand of our product line, please visit our web site at www.humanscale.com. Humanscale is represented by Authorized Dealers throughout the affected area.
• A facilities manager for ABB Lummus Global in the Westchase District and a recent new member of IFMA has indicated that her company has downsized from 450,000 sq. ft. of space to about 250,000 sq. ft. and as a result, has an excess of office furniture and office supplies, some of which we could donate to offices being setup around Houston for Katerina victims. They have desks (metal), tables, chairs (mostly desk chairs, some guest
  chairs) and file cabinets. These items are not top of the line, but they are furniture items used recently in our Engineering office. There are certainly serviceable and might help some companies get up and running with a minimum of fuss and expense. In addition they have an excess of binders, desk organizers, staplers, 3 hole punches and pendaflex folders.
• Aaron’s Corporate Furnishings - National Rental Furniture company has residential and office furnishings to offer to individuals and companies effected by Hurricane Katrina at discounted rates. Product available both new and used for rental, lease/purchase and sale. Case goods, seating, systems furnishings, training rooms, home furnishings including housewares available for immediate delivery. Corporate Sustaining Member of IFMA. Contact Frank at 770-458-1028.
• We are the authorized Teknion dealer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and are ready to assist anyone affected by this catastrophe with relocation, space planning, facility planning, and furniture needs. Our manufacturers have offered special discounting, delivery, and payment terms for affected businesses. We are ready and willing to assist anyone in need and are committed to help businesses be up and running as soon as possible.
• A Teknion dealer in the Denver area has new and used products that will sell at a substantial discount to facilities in the direct hit of Katrina. This is a member from the Denver Chapter of IFMA, and will do whatever to assist in getting companies up and running. You can also call Lisa at 303-665-7676, ext. 102.
• Office furniture dealer in Minneapolis has large quantities of folding tables, chairs, files and systems furniture that are available at discounted rates. Leasing available at weekly and monthly rates.
• IFMA member company is offering hurricane releif to those that need furnishings.We are providing space planning and Teknion is offering sytems furniture, seating, filing, casegoods, etc. discounted with special delivery and payment terms to help relieve the burdens of all affected by Katrina.
• A northern Ohio IFMA member has used office furniture such as chairs, desks or even workstations that could be donated to the relief fund for Katrina. The only issue would be transporting these items -- someone would need to arrange for delivery.

Office Space:

• Other available office space-Downtown Baton Rouge: Main Street at 5th; 3500sf.
  Contact Shelley or Rebekah Cell 225-802-3007.
• I have asked a client, Regions Financial Corp. / Union Planters Bank if they have any space available for immediate use. Attached is a list of property for sale in the affected areas. It is mostly closed branch bank buildings 600 to 3000 square feet. It may be of help to someone trying to set up a remote base of operations in Baton Rouge. I may be contacted for additional information - Tom Edwards, CFM.
• Office space in Katy, TX (Houston area) available for sublease. Furniture accessible at no additional charge. Data lines and phone lines already installed. Phone system in place and available for lease.
• An IFMA member has property in Research Triangle Park, NC that may be of interest to companies wishing to relocate. The facility is about 400,000 SF – sub-dividable. It is mostly wet labs with office and datacenter and is essentially in need of upfit throughout.
• Warehouse office space is available in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina (between Raleigh and Durham). An IFMA Member is knowledgeable on availabilities and can put interested parties in contact with NC property managers. The warehouses are fully-functioning, open space, HVAC, multiple-dock and multiple-height locations. All it needs is furniture, which he can assist with as well.
• This sublease space at 2800 North Loop West in Houston, TX can meet the office needs of any industry needing to relocate immediately due to Hurricane Katrina.
• Cushman & Wakefield has been mobilized since Tuesday helping companies from Katrina impacted areas, locate facilities in Houston. We have been working around the clock and our research team has identified every "plug and play" space available in the city with furniture and in some cases phones.

Resources Needed:

Disaster Recovery:

• IFMA member is looking for qualified contractors for roof repair to her damaged home.
• Another IFMA member is in need of a good roofer who can work very quickly in St Tammany Parish.
• Anyone with thoughts/experience toward stabilizing, then raising what is mainly intact of our home - from about the ceiling joists upward? IFMA member needs some assistance in recovering what is left of his circa-1880's home in New Orleans.