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158 S E L F - S T U D Y R E P O R T 2 0 0 9 FACI LIT IES MANA GEM EN T The Facilities Management department is responsible for maintaining about a million square feet of usable space in more than 50 buildings on 262 acres at the Fairfield campus. Through its energy management activities, the department helps to reduce our operating costs, and through its maintenance, renovation, and building programs, it provides for the campus’s future needs. Outsourcing of Facilities Management In June 2009, we contracted with Aramark to take over facilities management. We needed more sophisticated management systems, including computerized maintenance management systems, along with the experience in best practices that a company such as Aramark can provide. We expect (and have started to see) that Aramark will provide better services at or below our previous costs. They provide state-of-the-art cleaning equipment and better training for our custodial staff, which will lead to improved cleanliness of our campus buildings. We expect that their detailed preventive maintenance program will better predict our-long term maintenance needs and enable us to budget for them, thus reducing the number of unexpected deferred maintenance issues we have seen in the past. Energy management As a charter signatory to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, we are dedicated to reducing our carbon footprint to near zero over the next decade. We intend to achieve this through energy conservation, reducing energy demand, and converting to renewable energy sources. Please see the section on “Campus Sustainability” below. The Facilities Management department also has an active program to educate students, faculty, and staff about practices for efficient energy use. The department also seeks to replace inefficient appliances and lighting with more efficient ones. All new appliances and equipment must be Energy Star rated. In addition, Aramark is conducting a campus-wide energy analysis to determine cost effective ways of reducing our energy consumption and costs. These efforts, combined with our interruptible power agreement with Alliant Energy, have reduced our annual energy costs on campus to $0.76/square foot, quite low by industry standards. Maintenance Aramark is installing a computerized management system that will allow us to accurately track the maintenance needs of all campus buildings. This system will enable work requests to be submitted online, with prompt feedback on the status of the request. Aramark is also conducting a complete assessment of our current and future maintenance needs, allowing us to better budget for the associated expenses over the coming years.
S E L F - S T U D Y R E P O R T 2 0 0 9 159 Building construction and renovation This past decade has been a time of great transformation in the physical campus. We demolished 36 small dorms and 7 other old buildings inherited from Parsons College days and long past their expected life. We built six eight-room student residences using Maharishi Sthapatya-Ved architectural design. In just the last five years, we renovated ten 40-room residence halls at a cost of more than $1,000,000. We spent another $2,000,000 to renovate roofs, to provide geothermal energy to the library, Henn Mansion, and a small storage building, to renovate two more 40-room residence halls, and to renovate two of the five three-story “high rise” residence halls that account for 130 rooms now used for undergraduate men. We also did extensive maintenance on the 125- room Hildenbrand women’s residence hall. Several new buildings have been constructed in recent years. In addition to the 13,000 square foot, $2 million Dreier Building completed in 2000, we constructed the McLaughlin building for the Computer Science department in 2001 (12,000 square feet at $1 million), the Maharishi Veda Bhavan building for Education and Maharishi Vedic Science in 2002 (8,000 square feet at $0.8 million), Headley Hall in Maharishi Vedic City for the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention (12,000 square feet at $1.3 million), eight residences for university administrators (13,200 square feet for $0.8 million), and the magnificent Argiro Student Center (50,000 square feet for $8 million). We are now raising funds for a 9,000-square-foot Sustainable Living Center that will cost $1.5 million and be certified LEED Platinum. We expect our existing capacity in student residences and classroom space to be sufficient for the University’s growth until the Fall 2010 entry. Plans We plan to continue the major renovations of our campus residence halls over the next three years to accommodate our growing student population. We are also developing plans for building new residence halls and classroom buildings to accommodate the student population as it begins to exceed our current campus capacity.
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THE FOUNDING GOALS OF MAHARISHI UNI
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