Campus Facilities

Campus Facilities serves the MU commitment to higher education and research through providing the campus with comprehensive facilities, resource management and support programs which address both immediate and long-range issues of the University while providing responsive and quality services to the faculty, students and staff of MU.

Campus Facilities accomplishes its mission for the University with five operating departments and an administrative office.

Campus Facilities Operating Departments

Energy Management

Provides reliable and cost-effective energy services to over 13 million square feet of facilities including: three hospitals, a research reactor, numerous research facilities and laboratories, as well as classroom buildings, residential halls, dining facilities, athletic facilities, computer centers, and administrative buildings on the Columbia campus.

Energy Management provides the campus with electricity, steam, potable and chilled water, and manages contracted utilities such as natural gas, sanitary sewer and electricity, compressed air and water. Energy Management has six units: the Power Plant, which produces MU’s steam, electricity and water; Chilled Water Production provides chilled water for air-conditioning; Utility Distribution operates 75 miles of underground campus steam, water and high-voltage distribution systems; Energy Conservation develops and maintains energy-conservation programs; Testing, Adjusting & Balancing and Energy Management Control Systems conduct building start-up services and optimize heating and cooling systems; and Insulation Services provides environmentally safe asbestos abatement and insulation services.

Facility Operations

Provides custodial and maintenance services for MU's Educational & General (E&G) classroom, research and office space.

Custodial Services provides general cleaning services, floor-care maintenance (including restoration), and carpet cleaning for about 135 E&G buildings. The Special Work Assignment Team (SWAT) performs emergency cleanups, special cleaning, and custodial laundry services. The Movers unit relocates furniture, equipment and supplies, and provides special setup services for university events. Other building and department needs are met by Special Services personnel.

Maintenance repairs and maintains more than 6.5 million gross square feet of E&G space in over 160 buildings. The Capital Repair Program identifies and prioritizes major facility needs, and initiates projects to complete necessary repairs. Zone Maintenance Teams and Skilled Trades Operations provide daily operating, maintenance and repair services, after-hours emergency services and, on a recharge basis, maintenance for auxiliaries and department-owned equipment. The department is also responsible for the Sign Shop, which creates signs, logos, decals, MU mascot materials, and other detail work for campus facilities and grounds, and the Key Shop, which creates building keys and electronic access cards.

Landscape Services

Provides landscape architecture, construction and maintenance services for MU’s 1,360-acre campus, designated as the “Mizzou Botanic Garden.”

Landscape Services' staff of arborists, designers and gardeners are responsible for MU's landscape needs and strive to make MU a pleasant, exciting place to be. This includes 296 acres of developed landscape, 27.5 miles of sidewalks, and seven miles of private roads and drives.

Landscape Architecture plans and designs the university landscape and site amenities on a recharge basis; Landscape Construction provides a wide range of repair and construction services on a recharge basis; Landscape & Grounds Maintenance provides maintenance for the general campus, which includes the removal of litter and snow; and Contract Landscape Maintenance provides annual grounds-maintenance services to auxiliary units on a recharge basis. Landscape Services also coordinates and oversees the university’s solid-waste-removal contract with the City of Columbia and with Civic Recycling for recycling pick-up service.

Planning, Design & Construction

Serves the institution, clients and stakeholders by providing the services necessary to improve the physical environment in support of the University of Missouri – Columbia's institutional mission and vision. Planning, Design & Construction plans, designs and builds new structures and renovates, repairs and replaces existing facilities.

Planning, Design & Construction builds new structures, and remodels and renovates existing facilities. PD&C personnel manage all planning, design and construction efforts for the MU campus. Project Management guides campus clients through the complex and difficult project-design process and oversees the design work of contracted architects and engineers on campus projects. Construction Management manages the construction activities of private contractors and consultants during the construction phase of building, renovation, and infrastructure projects. Design & Construction Services is MU’s in-house architectural, engineering, interior design and construction team. Design Services provides in-house architectural, engineering, interior-design, space-programming, relocation and estimating services for repairing, renovating and expanding campus facilities. Construction Services undertakes campus projects costing under $80,000.

Space Planning & Management

Translates MU's instruction, research, and public service programs into physical facility needs. SP&M provides and maintains an accurate set of campus floor plans, space inventory data, and campus maps for all campus-owned and leased facilities. This department also recommends space assignments and reassignments to the Chancellor and Provost.

Space Planning & Management collects, updates, and reports on the following statistical information for both internal and external clients:

  • Floor plans for education and general buildings, non-education and general buildings, and agriculture experiment station buildings
  • Campus maps, topographical maps, and engineering surveys
  • A comprehensive space inventory database with over 50,000 records
  • Building and Infrastructure Archive information

Since its inception, the role of Space Planning & Management has evolved and grown to include space planning, space programming studies, building cost information, space utilization, Medicare/Medicaid cost study information, and Indirect Cost study data.

Campus Facilities Administrative Office

Campus Facilities – Administration supports all Campus Facilities departments in their collective role as MU's largest staff-support division. CF Administration coordinates capital budgets, processes payroll, billing and personnel records, implements job-, safety- and personal-development training, provides fleet vehicles for use by campus personnel, provides information technology and service and informs external and internal audiences about Campus Facilities' operations. The CF administrative units are:


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