Facilities Management

Both UC Davis custodial services teams – Facilities Management and Student Housing and Dining Services – announce that they are the esteemed recipients of the university’s Staff Assembly 2021-22 Citation of Excellence team award.

The Asset Management Facilities Condition Assessment (FCA) and ICAMP teams within Facilities Management (FM) are currently tracking nearly 200 deferred maintenance projects funded by Assembly Bill 94 (AB94) from 2019, 2020, and 2021 along with the State Budget Act from 2021. What a huge undertaking! Let’s check in with the team and see where we are today.

With the help of Fleet Services, Facilities Management (FM) is here to share fuel-saving tips! Whether you are preparing for a road trip, driving around town, or using an FM vehicle, here are steps that you can take to save fuel. 

Facilities Management Custodial Services strives to provide consistent and concise training for their staff. If we are to do the job ‘right,’ we need to know the correct way of doing it, and that only comes through an organized and planned training program. At Facilities Management Custodial Services, they have taken steps to provide exactly that!  

Facilities Management's Fleet Services has worked tirelessly to combat current obstacles regarding catalytic converters.  As local theft and supply chain challenges increase, a catalytic converter shortage has led Fleet to take constructive measures.

Since the Fall of 2021, the Energy and Engineering office has been working with two Graduate Student Researchers: Tanner Palmer and Pratik Raj Khadka. Both are first-year graduate students pursuing their Master of Science in Energy Systems and using their knowledge to contribute to FM projects. They enjoy working with experienced team members at the office, and the staff applauds the new ideas and energy that students bring to the office.  

When an outdated heating system caused the water temperature in Storer Hall’s tropical fish lab to drop to dangerously low levels, Facilities Management’s Building Maintenance Services (BMS) HVAC and Energy and Engineering team collaborated with the Laskowski Lab researchers to improve operations.  

No idea is too big or small when saving energy and improving systems. Joe Lestanguet, Inspector, Planner, and Estimator for Facilities Management Building Maintenance Services (FM BMS), shared an energy-saving idea with Sam Cole, an Energy Project Engineer from the Energy and Engineering office, and they recently implemented the project together.   

In February 2022, the Earth and Physical Science (EPS) Building earned LEED Gold Certification. The Green Buildings Team within Facilities Management Energy & Engineering certified this building under the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (LEED EB: OM) certification program. Learn more about what the team did to certify EPS building.