Physical Facilities Utilities

Mission

The mission of UTILITIES & ENGINEERING is two fold: 1) to provide electrical and mechanical engineering support for Facilities Planning and the four Utility Shops and 2) to provide safe, dependable, and efficient utility services to meet the University needs for learning and work environment.

About Us

The Utilities Section provides and maintains all plumbing lines, as well as heating, air conditioning, and electrical service for campus. Utilities includes the following shops:

Electrical and Mechanical Design

The Mechanical shop provides professional assistance in engineering design and maintenance problems.

The Mechanical Shop

Maintenance of all culinary water, gas, air, steam, sewer, and storm sewer piping in all academic buildings and grounds on campus. This shop also provides help with air conditioning installation, sheet metal, and welding repairs.

The Air Conditioning / Heating Plant

The Air Conditioning shop repairs, maintains, and installs air conditioning and heating systems on campus. Temperature controls, ventilating systems, refrigeration, chilled water systems, and steam and hot water heating systems are also responsibilities of this shop.

The Electrical Shop

Management of all electrical power on campus. This includes lighting, clocks and bells, fire alarms, scoreboards, elevators, high voltage equipment and distribution, street lights, and traffic semaphores. The Electric Shop also maintains emergency generators, emergency lighting, and emergency power systems.

The Central Heating Plant

The Central Heating Plant generates high temperature water used to satisfy campus needs for domestic and culinary hot water, building heating water, and steam. The Heating Plant also provides heat used in absorption chillers to meet cooling needs of campus.