Maintenance

Organization

All maintenance is provided from a central shop located in the Rice Maintenance Building. The department is divided into zones, allowing for a quicker response time to reported issues. Campus is divided into small groups of buildings geographically and assigned maintenance personnel who report to each of these areas. These smaller satellite or zone shops provide each of their respective areas with quality maintenance personnel for basic building maintenance and repair services. This eliminates a great deal of travel time that is required when operating from a central location, improving response time. Each of these zones has an assigned operations manager and a staff of qualified technicians in these trades: electrical, plumbing, carpentry and HVAC.

• Zone 2 - business offices & classrooms  
• Zone 3 - residence halls
• HVAC and preventative maintenance
• Locksmith
• Night maintenance
• Painting

Skilled Employees, Complex Campus

Our workforce includes many talented and skilled trades and craft people. Services provided on campus through this group include all maintenance services for buildings and infrastructure and related utility services. The trades represented are electrical, mechanical maintenance, plumbing, carpentry, HVAC, elevators, sheet metal and lock shop. All of these services are provided on a 24/7/365 basis in order to sustain the campus mission.

The campus consists of unique structures that must be maintained and protected in order to provide a safe environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors who are on our campus daily. Ten buildings on campus are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, requiring that special techniques and processes be used to preserve the integrity and aesthetics of the buildings.