Building & Landscape Services

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.

Custodial Services

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

Landscape Services

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

Fire & Life Safety

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

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.

100,000+

Data Points

Collected Across 52+ UI Smart Buildings

Emergencies

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

Go to FM@YourService

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

Custodial Services Staff Directory

Landscape Services Staff Directory

Building Operations and Maintenance Staff Directory

Building and Landscape Services News

University of Iowa's prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program has a home

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Iowa City Press-Citizen

The University of Iowa’s newly built Nonfiction Writing House opened last month on what has been dubbed the “writer’s row” along Clinton Street, providing the program its own building for the first time. The university held a dedication and open house on Sept. 22 for the 4,858-square-foot building, which was constructed in less than two years after decades of efforts to give the program a home.

Mapping the employment journey of Merit staff

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Human Resources

Clara Wells began her career at the University of Iowa nearly two decades ago not knowing where that decision would lead. Since then, she has risen through the ranks from a custodian at the hospital to a custodial supervisor in Facilities Management.

Iowa Now: Department of Dance will be relocated

Monday, July 3, 2023

Iowa Now

The University of Iowa is in the beginning stages of planning for the Department of Dance to vacate aging Halsey Hall and relocate to the Performing Arts Annex, the renamed former art museum that sits among other arts buildings on the west side of the Iowa River.

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