Edmond P. Rondeau, AIA Emeritus, RCFM, IFMA Fellow
Ed Rondeau is a Real Estate & Facility Management Consultant and Educator. For over 10 years he was the Real Estate General Manager in the Real Estate Development Office at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia USA where he was responsible for the Real Estate acquisitions and Facility Management of assigned owned and leased properties for the university and affiliated organizations. Previously Ed was the Director of Global Operations and Learning for the International Development Research Council (IDRC), an international corporate real estate membership association based in Atlanta, Georgia, served as the Director of Consulting Services for the Integrated Facility Management (IFM) business unit of Johnson Controls, Inc., and was the Manager of Corporate Real Estate for Contel Corporation. Ed also served as the Vice President of Property Management for the National Bank of Georgia, was the Vice President of Real Estate & Construction for Arby’s, Inc., was a Construction Manager for the Coca-Cola Company, and was the Staff Architect for Auburn University.
Ed holds a MBA in Real Estate from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a registered Architect in Georgia, and is a Retired Certified Facility Manager (RCFM). Ed was the 1988 President of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), served as the 1990 Chair of the IFMA Foundation, and was elected an IFMA Fellow in 1992. He was elected in 2016 as a Professional Member of the Facility Management Accreditation Commission (FMAC), is currently the Secretary/Treasurer of the FMAC, serves as a member of the ADP certification team, and is an IFMA Qualified Trainer as a RCFM Instructor.
He has spoken on corporate and university real estate and facility management issues throughout the U.S. and internationally and has been a guest lecturer at various universities throughout North America. Ed has spoken as a Visiting Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong in 2006, was a Visiting Lecturer at Kufstein University of Applied Sciences, in Kufstein, Austria in 2010, and was a Visiting Lecturer and Guest Coach for the Kufstein University “Winter School” program in February 2015 and March 2018. He was a Visiting Lecturer in March 2016, in March 2017, and in March 2019 at the Breda University of Applied Sciences in Breda, Netherlands where he lectured on Real Estate/Real Estate Finance, and FM Finance to undergraduate Facility Management and Hotel Management students.
Ed has authored numerous articles and presented seminars and workshops in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, is a co-author of the book Managing Corporate Real Estate, is the lead author of the book Facility Management for which he received the 1997 IFMA Book Author of the Year Award, and is an editor and a co-author of the book Facility Management 2 which was published in German in Germany in 2001. He is also the co-author of the book The Facility Manager’s Guide to Finance & Budgeting for which he and his co-author received the 2004 IFMA Book Author of the Year Award, and is the author of the “Principles of Corporate Real Estate” manual which is being used as a course text at a number of universities.