The University of Washington, Bothell and Cascadia Community College provide funding for basic operation and maintenance of all existing campus buildings. These funded services include routine and preventive maintenance work required to keep the buildings, utilities, and grounds in an acceptable and safe operating condition.
The engineering department is made up of 6 FTE. These employees take care of all heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. They maintain all lighting, electrical, and chilled water systems, and all fire, life and safety systems. They also install all shelves, pictures, panels, assemble furniture, move furniture and a myriad of other items.
There are many systems / items that need preventative maintenance. A few include inspection, lubrication, operational adjustments, belt tensioning and replacement, indicator light replacement of all HVAC system equipment, hundreds of fire extinguishers, hundreds of light bulbs both on the street and in the buildings, the entire fire system, entire security system, all the doors on campus, over 1000 air conditioning filters some need to be changed quarterly and some yearly, hundreds of pumps, thirteen heating system boilers, eight domestic hot water boilers, two chillers, fifty two backflow preventers, three cooling towers, all the building roof gutters on campus, storm drains and all of our vehicles.
Routine repairs are non-urgent, everyday repairs which need to be carried out as a result of normal usage or any repair that would improve or maintain the comfort and convenience of your environment. These would include replacing light bulbs, repairing leaking water faucets, repairing furniture, repairs to doors, frames, nicks in drywall, painting, replacing ceiling tiles or other similar repairs where it poses no urgent risk to student, staff, faculty or property.
An Emergency Repair Request constitutes a life, health, safety or potential damage to facility concern. These may include, but not limited to, a lost key, broken window, power failure, blocked or broken drains, fallen trees, broken water pipes, no heating, doors that can not be secured or public area lighting that is out.
