UCCS
Facilities Services
The Facilities Services Department has an online system to
submit your work request.
Please go to:
http://arc.uccs.edu/uccs/repor
ts/createworkrequest-r00.cfm
For questions or assistance
with completing this online
form, please contact our services desk.
Monday—Friday 7:30am to
5:00pm at 255-3313
Facilities Services Cell
7:30am— 11:00pm at
492-8329
The Facilities Services department has organized itself into
two primary areas: Planning,
Design & Construction and
Physical Plant Maintenance.
The Planning, Design & Construction team is actively
working on minor and major
construction projects. The
Physical Plant team includes
four work groups: Maintenance, Outdoor Services, Electrical, and Custodial. Their
responsibilities include maintaining campus academic and
administrative buildings. Facilities Services administrative
team is the glue that keeps our
teams connected. Each team is
committed to the continued
improvement of the UCCS
campus and serving you.
April - June 2014
Academic Office Building
By: Brad Johnson (Project Manager)
The new Academic Offices Building is nearing completion. We
will start moving furniture in mid-June so that the building can be occupied by July 1st. The contractor has started site work activities including
grading, setting boulders, pouring concrete seat walls and irrigation piping. Interior space may have finish
activities ongoing including painting, carpet,
casework, door installation, fixture trimout,
and a terrazzo floor at each lobby. The exterior
storefront, sunshade and composite metal panel
installations are wrapping
up. We are working so that
the space will be a very
nice environment for all
to enjoy!
Student Internships/Jobs
Where will some Facilities Services’ student employees be next month?
Kat Albert - Graduating with a biology degree, Kat is actively searching for
a job in a laboratory or another company in Colorado Springs.
Brad Daily - Brad, a mechanical engineering student, was just hired into the
Hewlett Packard new graduate internship.
Jaclyn Fuhrman - Jaclyn, a nursing student, was just hired as an Advanced
Care Partner at University Hospital in Denver on the Surgical ICU and cardiothoracic floors.
Mike Loggie - Mike, a business student specialized in HR , is actively
searching for an internship or full-time position at a local company. He is
waiting to hear back from various companies in Colorado Springs and Vail.
Bryan Ernst - Bryan is graduating with a biology degree and would like to
pursue a degree in botany. This summer he will be attending a botany conference in Idaho.
Kellie Zook - Kellie is an anthropology student with a music minor (plays the
cello and would like to begin focusing on the bass) and she will be in England this upcoming year to study “skin head culture” as well as conduct ethnographic research prior to going to graduate school in a year.
Jennifer Leissner - Jennifer is graduating with a psychology and criminal
justice degree. She will be backpacking through California this summer and
then hopes to find a job working with youth, outdoors, or as a social worker.
Logan Patterson - Logan is graduating with a physics degree and will be
working as a student teacher at a local high school in the fall.
Alex Rascon - Alex, a sports management student, will be interning
this summer with a baseball team in Minnesota for college athletes.
Construction Projects Update
By: Charles Cummings (Project Manager)
Reviewed By: Stan Rovira (Project Manager)
The Planning, Design and Construction group has been busy with all the construction on campus. Here’s a quick rundown on project progress:
Thank you to Student Government
for the delicious cake. The Engineer Building classrooms were refinished as part of Brad Johnson’s
project. Keith Valentine (pictured
above) helped paint the classrooms.
Friendly Reminder: Please
give us as much notice as possible when submitting a work
order or job request. We understand emergencies come
up, but we appreciate as
much notice as possible.
At the west edge of campus along North Nevada, the Lane Center has been
completed and is now occupied. Design work continues on the Visual and Performing
Arts building to be built in the vicinity of 4 Diamonds, and the feasibility study for the
Track and Field facility to be located north of Lot 15 along Nevada Avenue has just
been completed. The Recreation Center Expansion and the Health & Wellness
project is to begin construction in the fall. Closer to main campus, the Academic
Office Building is close to completion. The building will provide office space for a
number of departments. To the east,
between Cragmoor village neighborhood
and University Hall, end of the campus,
a new temporary parking lot is
underway. The lot will alleviate parking
needs at the east end of campus,
particularly for University Hall.
So, what is all that construction along Stanton Road anyway? The field level of
the Alpine Garage and Rec Field has been built and the contractor is now busy installing stairs, the brick cladding, and structural steel for the entry structure. The tower
crane is scheduled to come down in early June, and the facility will be completed this
summer. Across Stanton Road from the Alpine Garage & Rec Field in what was Lot 9,
construction has begun on the Village at Alpine Valley housing and dining facility
project. Grading has commenced, project trailers have been put in place, and underground utilities are being installed. Between the garage and the Village at Alpine Valley, construction is about to begin on the Stanton roundabout. The roundabout is
scheduled to be completed at the end of the summer and prior to the start of fall classes.
Community Service
Award
By: Charles Cummings
(Project Manager)
Recently Colorado Springs Fire
Department presented UCCS
with the Donald R. Hekkers
Community Service Award. CSFD
presents the award for “extraordinary efforts, contributions
to the community and service to others”. CSFD and UCCS
enjoy a close working relationship and have a long history
of cooperation and coordination. Recently the Department
of Public Safety and the Facilities Services Department
worked with CSFD to allow CSFD to conduct high angle rescue training on the tower crane at the new Alpine Garage &
Field construction site as well as basic firefighter skill exercises on the houses being removed in the east campus area
near University Hall.
Cody Bierdeman-Rojas, a current
freshman business student working in our electrical department, was part of this year’s first
place team at the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative’s 2014 Ethics Consortium Case Competition. He was on a team with nine other students from UCCS who were given the opportunity to go to Denver to compete against eight
other universities. In addition, he was one of
the five presenters from UCCS to present a recommendation to a CEO panel. Cody said, “Not
only was I a part of such an amazing experience and was able to meet inspiring people
through the Daniels Fund but UCCS was able
to also bring home the first place trophy”.
Welcome
John Fort
Welcome our new
plumber to UCCS!
John Fort previously
worked for Local 58
Plumbers and Pipe
Fitters Union. In his
free time he enjoys
playing basketball,
hiking, and being with
his family.
Can you guess who is
Spider Man?
Answer: Jeremy Offutt
(Outdoor Services)
Electrical Student Worker Competed in the
Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative 2014
Consortium Case Competition
Congratulations to Rick Landis for being recognized in
his service as Co-President
of the Staff Council.
Cody is pictured fourth from the left
Get To Know: Deanna Ely
You may know her by her voice on the phone or for her sense of humor,
but do you really know Deanna Ely?
She may describe herself as a “typical girl” but she is more than just
typical. At Facilities Services, she is “the glue between all the departments”, the best department party planner, and the one who will always lighten the mood. Deanna
has worked at Facilities Services for 10 years but she served in the Air Force in the Accounting & Finance department for seven years before coming to UCCS. At Facilities Services, she is in charge of
processing the department payrolls, keeping the operating books straight, and processing department HR paperwork. She doesn’t just stay busy at Facilities Services, she is also busy being
the proud mother of two UCCS students, three dogs, and two cats. In her free time she likes to
sew, crochet (ask her to show you one of her crochet doilies), and garden (especially
sunflowers).
Thank you everyone for making my time at Facilities Services unforgettable! I enjoyed making the quarterly newsletters and I will now be passing the task to Haydn Holgate, the new Administrative Student Assistant.—Jaclyn Fuhrman