March 2012 – Physical Plant Blog

Intersession Work

LGRC low rise library – 300 pieces of furniture and all the carpets (needed cleaning again due to construction)

Gunness student center – all furniture cleaned

ISB – auditorium seating cleaned as well as all common space furniture

Child care buildings – all carpets cleaned (per Maryanne Gallaghers request)

Boyden – 300 pieces of furniture in various class/computer rooms

ISOM/Alfond – all common area furniture completed

Goodell – honors area and any other common area furniture completed

Dubois library – all furniture on main, 1, 2, 3, and 5

Polymer – both auditoriums seating was all completed

Computer Science – all classroom chairs and common area furniture completed, about 250 pieces

FAC – some carpeting in concert hall perimeter

E lab II – all auditorium seating

All furniture listed is for upholstery cleaning

Physical Plant Landscape and Construction Services Supports Sustainability Efforts

Physical Plant Construction Services installed six (6) BigBelly Solar Trash Compactors along the pedestrian corridor between Whitmore and DuBois Library. BigBelly Solar Compactors are an innovative solar-powered waste collection system. The BigBelly Trash Compactor has five times the capacity as ordinary trash can. The BigBelly CLEAN Management Console, gives Physical Plant Landscape Services personnel real-time data, by e-mail, on the status of each compactor aiding our sustainability efforts in 70-80+% reductions in collection trips and associated operating costs, fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions are consistently achievable. Reduced collections yield deep cost efficiencies by freeing up valuable worker time, allowing managers to re-deploy staff to other important tasks, and reduce the costs and pollution of unnecessary vehicle trips. As waste collects inside a BigBelly solar compactor (or single-stream recycling inside a BigBelly compacting recycler), an internal “eye” senses when the bin is filling and communicates that information back to the Command Center, generating a command to trigger a compaction cycle. Our BigBelly Trash components have an enormous appetite for trash and recycling – keep feeding them! We have plans to install six (6) Big Belly Compactors in DuBois Library.