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Air Conditioning/Heating: Installs and provide services to maintain steam heat and chill water to ensure a confortable campus environment. Many Preventative Maintenance work orders are scheduled to ensure regular service of equipment. Other task include the maintance of frigeration and freezers.
Carpentry Shop: Consist of skilled carpentry professionals that hold responsibility for remodeling, repair, and renovation plans for NSU. Many of these task included renovating rooms, moving walls, and altering building space. Carpenters also install ceiling, frames, door closure, and floor tile. Other task consist of concrete work, glasswork,
Painting Shop: Offers a variety of services, including interior and exterior painting projects. Sheetrock and plaster work are also task performed by these personnel.
Electricians: Install, service, and maintain electrical needs. At times take on small internal projects to improve and upgrade the university campus.
Plumbers/Welding: Provide services and respond to plumbing needs, support the power plant as well as ensurance of campus water.
Central Plant: The campus Central Plant exist to provide steam heat, monitor chillers, energy managment systems and to act as the emergency response office of after hour maintenance needs.
Steam boilers provide building heat and hot water to all facilities by way of the campus Central Plant. The steam boilers are generally turned on in the months of November or December each year and off in the month of Fbruary or March. Regular inspections and annual certifications are conducted to ensure reliable campus heat.
Campus chillers provide conditioned air to all buildings by way of Five (5) chiller loops. Each chiller services a group of buildings and are monitored through the energy management system. These systems generally run from February to November to meet building needs.
Energy Management services are monitored by Central Plant staff 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to identify problems with chillers and building air systems. Future plans are in place to add the monitoring of Electricial Meters, Elevators, and Fire Alarm systems where needed.
The Central Plant staff responds to after hour calls to meet campus staff maintenance or emergency request. They are in contact with Physical Plant personnel for callout.
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