facilities operations

While WSU remains committed to a robust in-person experience this fall, some temporary changes to operations are being made in the interest of public health.

SPOKANE, Wash. – Washington State University Spokane has hired a facilities project manager to plan and manage land use on the growing campus.   Russell (Rusty) Pritchard leaves the position of vice president/senior project manager at Hill International where he guided the planned public/private Wine Science Center on the WSU Tri-Cities campus through the state […]

Photos by Tim Marsh, WSU Today.     PULLMAN – Nearly $10,000 was raised for WSU student scholarships during the second annual Jess Ford of Pullman Hardhat Classic Golf Tournament.   Sponsored by Facilities Operations as a benefit for the FacOps Scholarship Fund, the 18-hole open-to-the-public event at Palouse Ridge Golf Club was held Aug. 14. […]

Photo: Brianna Fischer, Ron Nugen and Chris Fischer (l-r) at Palouse Ridge Golf Club. Brianna, past recipient of a WSU Facilities Operations freshman scholarship, is a daughter of Chris, a FacOps employee. Nugen also works for FacOps and is FacOps scholarship committee chair.     PULLMAN – Freshmen at Washington State University will benefit from […]

VANCOUVER – WSU Vancouver is hosting its annual Cougar Pride Days April 15 – 17. Cougar Pride Days at WSU Vancouver is a time when students, faculty, staff, alumni and campus neighbors get together to demonstrate their cougar pride by volunteering for clean-up projects on the landmark campus. Cougar Pride Days projects include: boardwalk and […]

Facilities Operations and Capital Planning and Development are working to improve the underground chilled water piping loop that supplies cold water for air conditioning to buildings on the WSU Pullman campus.Over the past five years, many steps have been taken to improve chilled water capacity, including adding new loop-connected chillers and enacting energy improvement projects […]

WSU’s most valuable resource is its 7,055 employees and its students. But, in order for them to carry out their jobs and studies, each of them needs somewhere to work and gather. And after 115 years WSU has developed a rather sizeable amount of real estate and buildings — to be exact, 732 buildings worth […]

Facilities Operations maintenance and custodial divisions are asking for the help of all university campus departments to improve the security of campus buildings during off hours. The Facilities Operations dispatch center has been receiving a large number of calls from individuals requesting to have buildings’ exterior doors or office areas unlocked for them. While Facilities […]

Staff and faculty now can submit and track building maintenance and construction requests online, through the new myFacilities Web-based system. Early training sessions for finance officers, facility and building coordinators held during the last few weeks were well attended. “The new process of submitting work requests and problems via the myFacilities is simply wonderful,” said […]

Washington State University recently was awarded a 2004 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Energy Management from the office of outgoing Washington Gov. Gary Locke. The award, presented during the Jan. 28 WSU Regents meeting, is a recognition of a number of energy-efficiency improvements and environmental achievements made universitywide. Among the improvements cited by the award […]