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Section 8: Maintenance
Maintain all historic architecture.
Design designated snow piling areas?  In concert to designing the typically unattractive service areas, so as to be out of sight?  Is that feasible?
Replace the sprinkler system with another system that will prevent over watering.  Perhaps a drip system.
Additional funding for custodial and maintenance.  Building upkeep must start on a daily basis.
Better trash pick up in parking lots; dumpsters too visible.
Snow removal terrible and creates unsafe conditions on all surfaces.
Paint in buildings makes a huge difference!
"Deferred maintenance" is the bane of facilities programming and maintenance.  Existing structures must be maintained to the fullest extent and programmed for modification/enhancement or replacement.
Athletics - put a permanent indoor track in the fieldhouse - don't have to set up and put down temporary track.  Also, would be a 200 meter track.
It is important to keep up the maintenance and availability of existing facilities.  Often, the better answer may be to create a new facility rather than to cram activities and personnel into spaces designed for other uses.
Take care of deferred maintenance and improve snow removal.
Is there any planning for building maintenance?
Funding is going down, therefore it is harder to keep up with Maintenance issues.
Maintain all historic buildings.
Please leave open spaces for better snow removal.  Tight and organized creates more mess than a common storage area.
Screen or relocate dumpsters so they are not as visible as they are now.
No snow removal on streets to the point cars can barely drive.  Why remove snow on the sidewalk to the point it is a sheet of ice?  Leave enough snow to make walking safe.
Provide an elevator with limited use (key? code?) so that maintenance doesn't need a workspace on every floor using valuable space and allow delivery of heavy items.
Provide a few more trash containers (they're often hard to find!).
Conceal ugly dumpsters.
Have maintenance committed to a building or floor long term to keep some pride in their work - this is "mine".
Provide adequate space for snow storage/removal in landscape designs and building designs.
Fix the roads.  It's horrible conditions with potholes, scours, etc.
Pick up trash on campus from ground.
Make maintenance more efficient - outside bids.
Empty trash outdoors - especially in parking lots, more often.
Please listen to the department responsible for upkeep before you create a final design.  If they don’t like it, they won't take care of it.
Infrastructure location is critical - must be able to have service areas.
Tunnel is a great tool.  Please continue to expand this with new buildings - and to dorms.
Adequate exterior water sources - faucets on buildings.  Quality, frost-free, easy to repair (accessible).
Complete maintenance before you go off an any tangent.
The cobble stone surface in the mall is a failure that should not be repeated.  It's difficult to walk on with heels.  Wheelchairs have difficulty and maintenance is an issue.
Fix mess behind Leon Johnson.
Get rid of all ice everyday.
Deferred maintenance is a wrong headed and dangerous type of thinking, i.e. the brick of north Leon Johnson tower.
Post-snow sidewalk maintenance - there are far too many places on campus that remain icy for pedestrian safety.  On critical ice spots (like slopes where driveways cross sidewalks) use SALT!!
Define time frame for "temporary" solutions such as terrace around LJ Hall.
Lighting is horrible in the majority of the older buildings.
Are there other colors than white?
We do not have the staff and money to maintain buildings and facilities.
Sprinkler systems should be used less often or replaced by more efficient systems (drip systems) to avoid muddy grass-space.
Building maintenance.  Keep the old look so buildings keep unity and make the campus look organized and respectable.
Improve drainage (Stop re-freeze) especially on the north end of campus.  Lots, walks, and streets that ice over (especially this year) DO NOT CLEAR in part , due to the poorly placed, poorly maintained/blocked or non-existent drains.
Sweep streets, especially in the spring after the snow melts to keep the bike lanes usable.
A lot of the family housing apartments need to be renovated.
Traphagen Hall needs total renovation/bulldozing.  When it rains…it rains inside.
Complaint:  Repair, redo service drives.
Complaint:  Fix sidewalks inside Wilson Hall Courtyard.
Sidewalk maintenance is fine as is.  No "Heated sidewalks" or covered walkways are needed.  The sidewalks are almost always perfectly clear within 48 hours after a storm anyway.  Remelt is a real problem though.
Facilities services needs to consider aesthetics in their work.  The A/C in the basement in MT Hall is hideous inside and out.
Adequately support infrastructure such as OFS, ITC, police, etc.
Provide better maintenance of public areas - entrance ways, elevators, hallways, bathrooms, to keep them painted, cleaned, repaired.  They are a first impression by visitors, public, job candidates, prospective students.
Building maintenance needs its own endowment.  State money will never be available.  Can Alumni Association do a capital campaign?
Campus not clean.  Lots of debris/garbage builds up in places like Wilson, bushes, etc. - cig. butts...
Trash on the ground encourages more littering.  MSU needs a full-time litter picker upper.
Dumpsters are very ugly.  Surely other universities have figured out ways to make them less unattractive.  What can we learn from them?
Do: deferred maintenance before any new project or any building scheduled in long range plan.
Put more money into maintenance of buildings and walks and parking lots.
Difficult to support off-campus infrastructure, i.e. at tech park.
Deferred maintenance needs to be worked on or upgraded incrementally.
We don't have the staff and money to maintain buildings and facilities.
Is there any planning for building maintenance?
Maintenance of buildings.
Continue clean-up at Livestock Teaching Center.
Remove fences, make it more open.  Clean it up, make repairs.
A building maintenance plan needs to be implemented for the historic buildings on campus/historic landscape and plan of campus.
Upgrade heating an and cooling systems.
Maintain old original buildings.  Maintain and beautify them.
Plow the parking lots more often, in particular in the family housing.
Service drives and dumpsters are too visible from Centennial Mall.

 

 

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