{"310611":{"#nid":"310611","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building Construction Associate Professor Roper to sit on Healthcare Institute board.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKathy Roper, associate professor in the School of Building Construction at Georgia Tech, was recently appointed to the Board of Directors for the Healthcare Institute. Her two-year term began July 1 and will run through June 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Health Care Institute, which is an International Facility Management Association (IFMA) affiliate, consists of hospital administrators, facility managers, and professionals in the design and construction industry, serving academic medical centers and community hospitals, retirement facilities, and specialty hospitals and clinics. They strive to advance the skills of facility managers working in all areas of the health care field. \u0026nbsp;For information about the HCI, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hci.ifma.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/hci.ifma.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKathy Roper serves as director of the Master of Science program\u0027s integrated facility management track. She teaches graduate sustainable facility and property management, facility planning, project management, benchmarking, and corporate real estate.\u0026nbsp; She is an IFMA Certified Facility Manager, and in 2007 was named an IFMA Fellow, the association\u2019s highest recognition of service and lifetime achievement in the field.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Building Construction Associate Professor Roper to sit on Healthcare Institute board."}],"uid":"27814","created_gmt":"2014-07-25 08:01:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:48","author":"Lisa Herrmann","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"310621":{"id":"310621","type":"image","title":"Kathy Roper 2011","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895020","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:20","alt":"Kathy Roper 2011","file":{"fid":"201746","name":"kathy_roper2011.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kathy_roper2011.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/kathy_roper2011.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3981335,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/kathy_roper2011.jpeg?itok=mMfOjr_n"}}},"media_ids":["310621"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"98541","name":"health care institute"},{"id":"11028","name":"kathy roper"},{"id":"167100","name":"school of building construction"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Herrmann\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-0693\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lisa.herrmann@coa.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}