Live The Life
Richard Russel, AKA “Country”, Convention Center Groundskeeper, clearing snow in preparation for the USA Fencing tournament this weekend. Photos by Max Long, VBCC Event Manager coordinating this weekend’s tournament which is expected to draw over 1,000 participants from across the country. Many arrived before the storm on Wednesday and are staying at hotels up and down Atlantic Avenue. Bill Bradshaw, VBCC Groundskeeper Supervisor behind the wheel of the Bobcat.
Justin Roberts, VBCC HVAC technician, is replacing carpet strips in one of the Center’s six pedimats. He is assisted by Brian Seaborn a temp on assignment to the maintenance department who isn’t shown. Each of VBCC’s six pedimats contains nearly a mile of carpet strips which costs about $2,500 each in materials. They were instrumental in gaining LEED points for indoor air quality. Our guests passively wipe their feet as they enter the building thereby minimizing airborne dust.
Chef Desiree Neal visited WAVE Church on Saturday, November 18th to prepare a Cranberry Apple Stuffing for WAVE Church’s Thanksgiving Extravaganza, an event done by WAVE City Care to help support those in need during the holidays. She prepared the dish for a group of 150+ people and provided samples to all.
Great Job Chef Desiree!
The award was announced Thursday, November 2 at a 5:00 p.m. ceremony in Richmond! Great job!
The Virginia Beach Convention Center was the location of over 1,000 women for the 8th Annual Virginia Women’s Conference. This event brought women from all ages across Virginia to meet, network, hear from experts on a variety of important topics and gather resources from federal, state and local agencies.
The Virginia Beach Convention Center staff were nominated and won 3rd place in the 1st ever City of Virginia Beach Energy Awards. Our diligent and mindful staff of City employees and contractors worked together to save electricity and inspire a culture of environmental awareness. With the benefit of new LED lighting and the automated demand response program, VBCC lowered the power supply peak demand by 15%, from 2,196 kilowatts to 1,863 kilowatts, saving $20,870 in electricity costs (Sept. 2016 – August 2017 vs the same year prior). While the entire staff could not attend the event, the following staff members were present to accept the award from Mayor Will Sessoms (see attached photo): left to right — Mayor Will Sessoms, Larry Mitchell, Les Tolson, Jim Shampoe, Kimberlee Dobbins, and Courtney Dyer.
Congratulations Susan!
Please be aware that we must discontinue our use of Ungerboeck at the TOWNE BANK BUILDING by the close of business on 10/10/17.
Our EBMS data will be delivered to Simpleivew by 9am EST on 10/11/17.
This will give them ample time to complete the final data import prior to our on-site training scheduled to take place during the week of 10/16/17.
I’m counting on you to spread the word.
The Virginia Beach Convention Center was the host of roughly 100 teachers across 13 different states during the RTI at Work Conference. The teachers were here to receive the highest quality resources to help them succeed in their mission to improve student learning. We hope they enjoyed their time in Virginia Beach and to see them again in 2018!
Cleaning is often in the details as Corey Williams and Delores Samuel will tell you. Here they are hard at work cleaning the tape residue, scratches, bumps and bruises off of one of VBCC’s operable walls. Did you know that VBCC has 93,640 square feet of operable wall surface? That’s just the first floor, and it requires a lot of cleaning. It’s also the equivalent square footage of thirty-eight 2,500 square foot homes!
