On January 1, 2008, Operations and Maintenance and Landscape Services merged to create Building & Landscape Services.

This new unit within Facilities Management is dedicated to building maintenance, custodial service, and landscape services.

Building and Landscape Services (B&LS) provides operational and technical support for daily building operations and maintenance, and landscape services including:

• building mechanical and electrical systems
• energy efficient operation
• ADA
• fire/life safety and code compliance
• repair and replacement of building infrastructure and envelope components
• proper preventive maintenance practices
• daily custodial services including classroom, office, restroom, research lab, and public space cleaning
• trash and recycle collection and removal
• routine and major floor care projects; and relamping
• mowing
• tree care
• litter control
• sidewalk maintenance
• shrub & flower bed care
• institutional road maintenance
• refuse collection
• campus lighting
• campus exterior signs 

Building and Landscape Services (B&LS) leads and manages maintenance engineering services, customer service center (Work Control), key shop services, building electronic access and security services, pest management, and moving services. B&LS also provides central shop services including the carpenter shop, sheetmetal shop, and paint shop.

All questions or requests for services pertaining to Building & Landscape Services of academic buildings, of administrative support buildings, and of the campus should be referred to the Work Control Center.

Requests for services or trouble calls can be made via
FM Reqs, an on-line requisition process. For urgent requests, call 319-335-5071
(24 hours/day, 7 days/week)
Fax: 335-6498, Email: facilities-wcc@uiowa.edu

Campus Address: 260 USB Fax: (319) 335-6498 BUILDING & LANDSCAPE SERVICES ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Dan Heater Tel: 335-5038	Director
Ann Rosenthal Tel: 335-5823	Associate Director, Plant Management
Bob Brooks Tel: 335-3671	Associate Director, Landscape Services
Bob Hradek Tel: 335-5901	Engineer II
Lori Giannini Tel: 384-0943	Secretary III