Boston – Margulies Perruzzi Architects announced that principal Marc Margulies, AIA, LEED AP was honored with the President’s Award by the Boston chapter of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), a non-profit association dedicated to serving the facility management profession.
The IFMA Boston President’s Award is given to a chapter member for his or her leadership and example to the facility management industry as a whole.
Margulies, and several contacts who saw the need among themselves and their peers for a local facilities management association, formed the IFMA Boston chapter in 1985.
Margulies soon became the chapter’s first president and held the position for two-and-a-half years.
He starting his own firm, Margulies Perruzzi Architects (formerly Margulies & Associates) in 1988, and credits IFMA Boston and his circle of contacts with providing all of his firm’s clients for its first five years in business.
The annual IFMA Boston Golf Tournament was launched by Margulies employees in 1990 and the firm’s marketing staff submitted the chapter’s first winning “IFMA Chapter of the Year” submission.