Campus Scenics: various buildings on campus
About Us & the Campus

Facilities Management is responsible for the overall physical development and maintenance of the campus. The mission of the department is to provide a safe physical environment that promotes the advancement and transfer of knowledge.

Distribution Center & Mailing Services

The Distribution Center houses work units that provide procurement, disposal, and logistic services, as well as processing and distribution of written communications, to enable the campus to pursue its mission of excellence in education, research, and community service.

Facilities Operations

Facilities Operations provides a physical environment that promotes the advancement and transfer of knowledge and aims to be a dynamic, customer focused organization that provides high quality, competitive services and is recognized as a national leader in the stewardship of our physical facilities.

Planning, Design & Construction

This department is responsible for the planning, design and construction of buildings on campus in support of the CU-Boulder's academic mission.

Contact Us

Visit this section to contact the various departments of Facilities Management.

Announcements:

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Call for Nominations - Campus Sustainability Awards:  Nominations are now being accepted for the annual Campus Sustainability Awards that recognize outstanding individuals and departments who demonstrate a sincere commitment to reducing the burden that CU-Boulder places on the environment. The deadline is March 1, 2013. For more information or to nominate someone, visit:

http://ecenter.colorado.edu/greening-cu/campus-sustainability-awards

Go hug a tree! CU Boulder has been recognized as a 2012 Tree Campus USA, meeting the five core standards for campus forest management: a tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures for campus tree program, an Arbor Day observance, and a student service-learning project. Congrats to all the FM staff who helped us earn this honor.

Kudos:  The City of Boulder’s Broadway (Euclid to 18th) Transportation Improvements Project has received two awards, one from the Colorado Chapter of the American Public Works Association (APWA) and another from the Colorado Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), in recognition of the city’s collaborative and innovative approach to the project. 

See a short video about the Broadway project innovations.

Building Name Changes:  Several buildiings on campus have new names:

IBS1 is now A&S Finance and Payroll Administration

IBS3 is now Center for Asian Studies

IBS5 is now Arts and Sciences Office Building 1

IBS8 is now Academic Advising Center:  Students in Transition

LASP is now Duane D-Wing

MCD Biology Building is now Gold Biosciences Building

"A Tale of Teamwork", by Lynn Fletcher  Read about FM's great response to the glycol flood in Regent in August. The cross-divisional group responders were nominated for a Constellation Award by FM Executive Director Steve Thweatt and awarded with a pizza party in C4C to recognize their efforts:  http://www.colorado.edu/node/2049007

LEED Gold! The new JILA wing has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold rating from the United States Green Building Council. The addition is about 25% more energy efficient and 30% more water efficient when compared with similar types of recently built, code-compliant buildings.

Congratulations! JILA, Systems Biotechnology and Smith Hall were honored by Engineering News Report in the publication’s 2012 Best Projects competition for the mountain states region. Learn more here

Job Well Done!  Facilities Operations received APPA's Award for Excellence at this years’ APPA Conference.  A big congratulations to everyone on our Operations team! 

Watch the award submittal video

Are you seeing Stars?  Facilities Management awards a monthly “Star” award for outstanding individual efforts and a monthly “Constellation” award for outstanding team efforts.  Staff members are nominated by customers, coworkers and/or supervisors, and winners are selected by the FM Employee Recognition Committee. If you have noticed an FM employee (or group of employees) who went out of his or her way to make the campus a better place to work, study, or visit, please consider submitting a nomination for this month’s award:

Nominate an individual for the monthly FM Star award here

Nominate a group for the monthly FM Constellation award here

CU-Boulder's campus is among the most beautiful in the world.

Take the aerial tour!

Cone Zone

Construction Cone

The following website is intended to show construction projects that are current and upcoming on the CU-Boulder campus.