Facilities @ Management

2.1 My Facility Management JourneyLessons Learned

Edmond P. Rondeau

My work career began after I graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, Georgia USA with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. After spending almost two years in the US Army Corps of Engineers as a Lieutenant with tours at Fort Benning, Georgia, and Cam Rahm Bay, South Vietnam, I returned to the US. I then worked for a number of architectural firms and when I passed my Georgia Architectural exams, became a registered Architect. In the late 1970s I went to work as a Staff Architect in the Office of the Campus Planner and University Architect at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama USA.

Auburn University

At that time Auburn University had over 20,000 students with over 300 buildings on an over 1,000+ acre (404+ hectare) campus. As a Staff Architect I worked on a number of design and interior/exterior construction capital projects including new buildings, renovations and remodels of research labs, classrooms, dean offices, instructor offices, conference rooms, student housing, food service, IT, athletic facilities, veterinary operating theaters, library renovations, an air structure, football stadium addition, new Physical Plant facilities, a new School of Nursing, a new Electrical Engineering building, etc. This included working with university administration, finance, and accounting, purchasing, physical plant, deans, staff, professors, researchers, students, outside architects ...