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In January, Facilities Services (FS) and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) collaborated to launch a campus COVID cleaning program, to provide volunteer FS staff with elevated knowledge and expertise on cleaning campus locations during the pandemic. Made up of 15 volunteers from various departments within FS, staff members attended decontamination trainings to learn how to...

The UC Riverside campus may be mostly empty, but the work of keeping it secure continues. Since the Riverside County stay-at-home order went into effect March 13, UC Riverside police, Environmental Health & Safety, and Facilities Services have been among the departments with staff working on campus performing critical duties. “Over the past few weeks...

Aaron Uresti and Sandra Martinez of Environmental Resource Services, attended the Healthy Green Schools and Colleges program at the ISSA North American show in Las Vegas. The Healthy Green Schools colleges program is a two-day educational seminar (hosted by The Healthy Schools Campaign) at the trade show where facility managers working in educational facilities are...

This holiday season with the generous contributions of UCR maintenance and custodial staff, Facilities Services was able to donate 6 bins full of food items and toiletries to the R'Pantry on campus. R'Pantry is the UC Riverside food pantry in response to student needs for resource and to improve their health well-being. Food insecurity is...

In May 2019, Facilities Services (FS) welcomed Alejandro Gonzalez, Brandon Moffett, and Leo Ngo to the Energy team to assist Energy Manager, David Palacios and Energy Engineer, Chad Sisco with various energy and utility applications such as energy efficiency and savings, utility infrastructure, smart-metering and sustainability initiatives. Since the start of the program, the interns...