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October—December 2013
Village at Alpine Valley
By: Carolyn Fox (Campus Architect)
Custodian Mike Friloux
shows off his artist side
The design work is continuing for the new First Year Experience Housing Village
(aka Village at Alpine Valley). The four new buildings will occupy land that is now used
as Parking Lot 9.
The Facilities Services Department has an online
system to submit your
work request. Please go to:
In March 2014, cars in Lot 9 will move into the new Stanton Parking Garage.
This will allow construction to begin on our new hall, Roaring Fork, and our three new
residence halls: LaPlata, Cucharas and San Juan Houses. The first three buildings
will be completed by August of 2015, while San Juan will open a year later.
http://arc.uccs.edu/uccs/
menupage.cfm
The new village will provide beds for 515 students, dining, and classrooms. Landscaping
improvements around three existing buildings will tie the site into a cohesive village.
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 & 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.
RED = Roaring Fork Dining Hall GREEN = San Juan House
BLUE = La Plata House PURPLE = Cucharas House
UCCS partners with the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind
The Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind is a K-12 school for the legally deaf, legally blind, totally deaf, and totally blind. CSDB provides education as well as provides a
transition for the students in a program called "Bridges to Life". Bridges to Life helps their
students upon graduating in gaining on the job training in order to ease their transition
from school to the working world.
UCCS Facilities Services and other campus departments (especially the Child Development Center) have students working for them from CSDB in order to provide them with onthe-job training. Marshall, a student working in both the outdoor services and maintenance
departments, is legally blind. He likes to point out,
however, that "most legally blind people can do the
same things everyone else can do. They just learn
more by hearing and touching." Marshall says that
there are studies that show the legally blind have
quicker hand-eye coordination. In fact, Marshall has
three silver trophies in Go-Kart racing. Other
than Go-Kart racing, Marshall enjoys snow boarding
and growing rare chili peppers (ghost peppers,
habanero peppers, etc). Some of his peppers were
even used in this year's chili challenge! He hopes to
attend UCCS in January to earn general education
credit to go toward a degree in Horticulture (the study
Marshall, a student from CSDB
working in Outdoor Services and
of plants).
the Maintenance department
1st Annual Chili CHALLENGE
By: Deanna Ely
We put a different spin on our annual chili contest this year – we thought it
would be fun to get this thing going campus wide by CHALLENGING a different
department. So, we CHALLENGED the Deptartment of Public Safety. We
created a “traveling trophy” for the winning department as well as a singular prize
for best individual pot. Judging was done by Brian Burnett, Susan Szpyrka,
Debbie Lapioli, and Iryse Naro. They were gracious enough to taste 15 pots of
chili between the two departments! Each pot of chili was given a numerical
score between 0 – 10, then the scores for each department were added and averaged
to get the overall department score. The overall scores were SO CLOSE but in the
end, Facilities Services came out as the 2013 CHILI CHALLENGE CHAMPS by .09
points over DPS! The individual winner for his pot of chili (Dat’s a Bunch of Crock)
is Ron Honn – who da guessed that?! And yes, he made it himself! Congratulations!
Much fun and good eats were enjoyed by both departments. A few of the
pots submitted were Husker Smackdown, Bootleg Chili, Beer Beans BAM!, Shotgun
Willy Chilly, Green with Envy, Mo Chili Mo Problems, and Chili Chili Bang
Bang. Creative names and very good recipes. Lots of smack talking going on as
well. For now, the traveling trophy isn’t traveling – it is proudly displayed in the
Facilities Services lobby area. Stop by and see it when you’re over in our neck of the
woods!
Will our challenge end up being a redo with DPS next October or is
there another department brave enough to take on this challenge?
Get to Know: Kirk VonLoh
You’ve seen him fixing things all across campus, but how well do you know Kirk VonLoh?
Kirk has been working at Facilities Services for three years. He says that he is definitely a work
alcoholic but really enjoys working in the maintenance department. For fun he enjoys traveling,
hiking, running, and hunting.
Do you think you are a basketball all-star? Well Kirk may have you beat. Not only is basketball his favorite sport, but he was a basketball all-star for the Colorado School for the Deaf and
Blind. He currently hold two of their records that haven’t been broken in the past 38 years. What
are the records he holds? Kirk got 30 rebounds in a single game and he had an average of 16 rebounds a game during his senior year! He’s a rebounding king! Kirk also loves football, especially
the Broncos. He played football also in high school and was on the Black Forest League
Champions team in junior high and his high school football team also made it to the semifinals his freshman year. So next time you want to play a pick-up game of basketball or
football, make sure you put Kirk on your team!
“I learned the value of hard work by working hard. Hard work is the
real key to success.”
“Deaf people can do everything—but hear.”
New LED Lighting for the Mountain Lion
Statue on the University Center Plaza
Engineering Generator project
By: David Shurtleff (Electrical Supervisor)
We are in the process of
replacing the Engineering Building’s emergency generator. The
new 80 kW generator is set on its
pad. All electrical installation
work has been completed. Startup
and testing is scheduled for this
week. The project will be completed by end of November.
By: Brad Johnson (Project Manager)
Recent underground utility construction
activity damaged the wiring that feeds all of the
lighting on the UC Lower Plaza. The Facilities
Electrical Services department ceased this opportunity to upgrade the lighting for the plaza
and Clyde, the UCCS mountain lion mascot who
sits squarely in the center of the plaza. New
LED lighting will illuminate the white marble
mountain lion statue, which is the focal point of
the plaza. The lighting improvements will decrease energy usage on the Plaza from 1400
watts to 315 watts, with an annual energy savings of $380.
Facilities Welcomes Two New Plumbers
Craig Olson
Geranium Give Away
Vince Gonzalez
Outdoor Services received a little over 200 geranium plants in the spring. They were grown in our little
greenhouse for about two months until planting season in
May. The Orange and Salmon colored geraniums then
grew in the campus flower beds until October. They were
cared for and given away by the floral crew Melissa Getz,
Brian Ernst, Kellie Zook, Kat Albert, and the previous
floral lead Brenda Kuhn. The geraniums were in place for
the homecoming events, and then they were
hit by a hard freeze the weekend before the
giveaway. Luckily, most of them survived
and about 175 geraniums were given
away to faculty across campus.
Outdoor Services department: Bryan Ernst, Melissa Getz, and Kat Albert
Stanton Parking Garage, Recreation Field, and
the Rec Center Expansion
By: Charles Cummings (Project Manager)
Construction will continue through the winter on the Stanton Parking Garage and
Rec Field. The general contractor completed the retaining wall last month and is
partway through construction of the first parking deck above the ground. The contractor will complete about one level of the garage per month. The garage will have 4 levels of parking housing approximately 1230 cars with the building’s 5th level being the playing field. Cars from Lot 9 will begin parking in the garage
in March of 2014, and the field will be complete later in the spring.
Design work continues on the expansion of the Rec Center and Wellness Center. The expanded building
will house Recreation, the Student Health Center, and the University Counseling Center and will feature expanded
fitness and weights areas, new gymnasiums, group fitness rooms, and a new SOLE area. Construction is scheduled to
begin summer of 2014. See images