Facts and figures
Facilities Management:
- is made up of over 300 dedicated employees
- cares for 137 buildings
- are stewards of 397,061 square metres of building space
- up keeps 75,000 square metres of garden beds and natural space
- cuts 80 acres of lawn each week in the spring and summer
- uses plants native to lower Vancouver Island in new landscaping
- tends to over 1,500 rhododendrons, azaleas and companion plants native in Finnerty Gardens
- maintains over 17 kilometres of underground water mains
- metres the equivalent of 216 Olympic pools of water per year
- oversees 3 distinct water sheds
- registered 7 buildings for LEED Gold
- uses a geoexchange system to heat and cool CARSA
- monitors the equivalent power per year to run a 60 watt light bulb for 98,034 years
- installed 4 green roofs
- collects recyclables in 628 indoor recycling bins (527 recycling stations plus 101 glass bins)
- recycles 1,000 tonnes of material each year, including 200 tonnes of paper
- composts 430 tonnes of food waste each year
- attends to over 4,000 work requests each month
- oversees and creates over 375 schedules and procedures
- maintains 8,424 pieces of building equipment plus 2224 inactive pieces of equipment
- up keeps 4 turf soccer and 3 artificial surface fields
- controls 12,000 separate irrigation heads
- looks after 47 kilometres of fluorescent lamps
- is responsible for over 60,000 doors and lock hardware
- installed over 236 automatic door openers
- built over 34 ramps for accessing buildings in wheelchairs
- provided 25 lecture/ performance theatres with hearing assistive technology
- applies over 17,000 square metres of paint each year
- flush and tests 63 fire hydrants every 3 years
- operates 4 main boiler plants and 3 standby plants
- tests 500 backflow preventers each year
- processes over 15,100 outgoing and 25,000 incoming pieces of mail each month
- cleans over 3,660 offices, 33 lecture halls, 708 classroom/ labs and 404 washrooms
- gets around on 37 electric gators, 4 electric cards, 30 motor vehicles, and 45 bikes
- warehouses thousands of surplus furniture assets available for re-use