About Facilities Services

Building and Maintaining a Beautiful Campus

The Facilities Services Department is organized under two major units: Facilities Maintenance Services and Planning and Construction Services. These units collectively provide services for the design, construction, accounting and budgeting activities, maintenance and repair of all campus buildings as well as providing parking and transportation services that support the needs of the campus and surrounding community.

Maintenance Services

Provides preventive maintenance and repairs to campus building's electrical, mechanical/HVAC, plumbing, roofing, fire alarm and fire suppression systems, painting services, carpentry services, issues building keys, maintains perimeter security systems, maintains fire extinguishers, coordinates elevator repairs, operates and maintains the campus utilities systems, which includes the Central Heating Plant, provides landscape maintenance, snow removal, moving services, custodial services, asbestos abatement and flooring maintenance. They also provide evening and weekend emergency response to facilities-related matters.

Planning & Construction

The Planning and Construction Services unit manages the university Capital Improvement Program, provides campus master planning assistance to senior administration, manages all renovation and construction projects, provides cost estimates for department funded projects, maintains university drawing files and campus maps, implements accessibility projects, and supervises the work of outside architects and engineers.

Planning and Construction Services is also responsible for the department’s accounting and budgeting activities along with campus Parking and Transportation Services. Parking and Transportation Services distributes official parking permits for the university community, coordinates visitor special event parking, regulates the use of parking spaces on campus, and provides shuttle service to many locations around the campus.

Facilities Accounting

Facilities' Accounting unit manages the financial side of operating, maintaining and growing our campus. Among their myriad duties, they pay the University's utility bills to keep the lights on, and manage our project accounting for new construction. The process incoming funds for new projects, and manage the accounts for hundreds of campus facility projects.

Strategic Plan

Both Maintenance and Planning and Construction Services work together to address extensive deferred maintenance needs on our beautiful, historic campus. To facilitate making critical repairs and upgrades, as well as enabling a cost-reducing preventative approach to these needs, we have developed a Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan organizes deferred maintenance needs into systems, and prioritizes items in each system. Then, as funding is available, the deferred maintenance items are addressed in order of priority, across all systems.