William M. Elvey, P.E.

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William M. (Bill) Elvey, P.E. has over 33 years of experience in the area of Facilities Management including the last 13 years in higher education.  Bill is also a Past-President of APPA – Leadership in Educational Facilities – www.appa.org.  Bill recently participated as APPA’s representative on the NACUBO-sponsored National Campus Safety and Security (NCSS) Project.  His involvement with this project over a two year period constituted completion of a research project for APPA’s Center for Facilities Research (CFaR).  He is a graduate of Rice University and holds a Bachelors and Masters in Environmental Engineering.  Bill also has a Masters of Business Administration from George Mason University.  Bill is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.  Bill retired in 1997 after 20 years with the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps.  During his career he worked in Public Works, Seabees, Construction Contract Administration, Personnel Management, and Planning, Programming, Budget and Finance.  In September of 1997, after a short stint in the private sector, Bill became the Director of Physical Plant at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.  In 2003, Bill became the Assistant Vice President for Facilities where he was responsible for managing a workforce of over 600 personnel, an operating budget of over $98 million, and facilities management functions including: Physical Plant, Capital Design and Construction ($361 million of authorized projects), Utilities, Contracts and Campus Renovations, and The Office of Transportation for the Blacksburg campus and 14 agricultural research stations located throughout the Commonwealth.  At the time Virginia Tech had an enrollment of over 28,000 students in 8 colleges and is comprised of over 370 buildings containing nearly 8.9 million square feet of space on 2,600 acres on the central campus area.  Bill has been the Director for Facilities Management, Engineering, Construction, and Planning at The University of Texas at Dallas since October 2007.  The University of Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of Richardson, Plano and Dallas in the heart of the complex of major multinational technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor®, enrolls about 16,000 students. The vision of UT Dallas is to be one of the nation’s best public research universities and one of the great universities of the world.