• Overview
• Projects Underway
  • Capital Projects Process
  • Classroom Scheduling and Utilization
  • Facilities Maintenance and Upkeep
  • Food Service Planning
  • Research Space Management
• Guidelines
  • Capital Project Guidelines
  • Food Service Planning Guidelines
  • Office Space Guidelines
  • Research Space Guidelines
  • Target Goals for Classroom Utilization
• Resources and Tools
  • Utilization reporting and information
  • Building and space information
  • Utilities information
  • Additional resources
• News and Events
• Contact

facilities maintenance and upkeep

• Overview
• Scope
• Goals
• Project sponsors
• Project team
• Advisory groups/individuals
• Estimated timeline
• Current status
• For more information

Overview

The Facilities Maintenance and Upkeep project seeks to examine our investment in sustaining our current facilities. Specifically, it will identify if our current deferred and preventive maintenance models are cost-effective and if we are investing appropriately in the life of our buildings to support our institutional mission and needs now and in the future. Potential changes may occur in facility maintenance incentives, processes, or investment levels.

Scope

This project affects General Fund academic and administrative units on the Ann Arbor campus.

Goals

The primary goals of the Facilities Maintenance and Upkeep project are to have a model that ensures more cost-effective upkeep of facilities over the life of our buildings.

Project Sponsors

• Phil Hanlon
  Vice Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs
• Hank Baier
  Associate Vice President for Facilities and Operations

Project Team

The project team includes the following individuals:

• Frances Mueller *
  Project Manager, Space Utilization Initiative
• Fadi Musleh
  Project Administrator and Support, Space Utilization Initiative

* project manager

Advisory Groups/Individuals

To be determined

Estimated Timeline

To be determined

Current Status

10/09: There is no update at this time.

2/09: There is no update at this time.

12/08:  Business & Finance launched UManage as a joint effort with academic units. The program gives users additional vendor choices and management tools, while remaining in compliance with University policies and building/safety regulations.

5/08:  Hank Baier, Associate Vice President of Facilities and Operations, and Frances Mueller, Space Utilization Initiative Project Manager, met to discuss next steps.  It was decided that further input was needed from school and college deans.

4/08: The next steps for this project are being determined.

2/08: Focus groups were conducted with unit budget administrators; unit facilities managers; Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) leadership; and Plant Operations and Plant Engineering leadership to identify specific areas of our current facilities maintenance and upkeep model that should be explored further.

For More Information

For more information on the Space Utilization Initiative, contact space.utilization@umich.edu.

Last updated: 02/26/09