About

Building & Landscape Services is dedicated to campus building and landscape physical asset stewardship and customer service.  Stewardship opportunities occur within the support we provide in our daily building operations, maintenance, landscape, and custodial services.

 

BLS Org Chart

Drone footage of east side Iowa City University of Iowa campus

Building Operations and Maintenance

Building mechanical, electrical and plumbing, control support, Fire & Life Safety, and more.

Custodian sweeping

Custodial Services

Space cleaning, restroom cleaning, sanitizing, and restocking, specialty cleaning, and more.

Hawkeye Grass

Landscape Services

Turf management and tree care, sidewalk and road maintenance, litter control, and more.

Fire Safety

Fire & Life Safety

Safety inspections, maintaining testing and maintenance requirements, repair support, and more.

100,000+

data points collected across 52+ UI Smart Buildings

Smart Building Technologies

UI utilizes smart building technologies through our Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) program. FDD is a software tool used to proactively discover building system problems and identify optimization opportunities before they lead to alarms, excessive waste of resources, occupant discomfort or system failure.

$85,000

cost avoidance through a collaborative high quality water investigation with ENGIE.

Asset Optimization Services

Asset Optimization Services (AOS) helps keep campus running efficiently and reliably by bringing together experts from maintenance, construction, and utilities. AOS focuses on reducing costs and improving the long-term performance of buildings, ranging from individual pieces of equipment to entire building systems.

Emergencies

Please call 319-335-5071 (available 24/7).
For all other requests, please use the FM@YourService Portal.

Contact Us

Andy Bruckner

Director, Custodial

andrew-bruckner@uiowa.edu

 

Scott Gritsch

Director, Landscape Services

scott-gritsch@uiowa.edu

 

Julie Sychra

Director, Building Operations and Maintenance

julie-sychra@uiowa.edu

 

Staff Directories

Building and Landscape Services News

Farrukh Bashir and Andy Dahl receive the Tree Campus Higher Education award.

UI Receives 17th Consecutive Tree Campus Higher Education Award and Renews Arboretum Accreditation

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
The University of Iowa was honored with the Tree Campus Higher Education Award for 2025 at the Annual Community Forestry Awards Luncheon on April 8.  The award was presented by the Arbor Day Foundation and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources at the FFA Enrichment Center in Ankeny. The UI also recently had its level II Arboretum Accreditation renewed through March of 2031.
Miyawaki Forest Planting

Miyawaki Forest Tree Planting 2.0

Monday, April 6, 2026
Join the Miyawaki Forest Tree Planting 2.0 on Arbor Day, Friday, April 24. This exciting initiative aims to plant 2,000 native tree saplings and shrubs using the Miyawaki Method, a technique for densely planting native trees to create bio-diverse and self-sustaining forests.
Image of the rare American Chestnut tree

A Living Piece of History at the University of Iowa: Rare American Chestnut Tree

Monday, January 12, 2026
A rare 125-year-old American chestnut on the University of Iowa’s Oakdale Campus is cared for by arborist Andy Dahl and FM Landscape Services, draws visitors from across the Midwest, and supports national research on restoring the species.