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As part of the University’s strategic Five-year Capital Construction Plan, work to transform the Academic Complex in the historic core of campus will begin in January. “The goal of the Academic Complex Renovation (ACR) project is to modernize the Denny, Macy, Barnard, Garinger and Winningham buildings. Work to overhaul the complex will occur in three […]

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has earned a STARS Silver rating for its accomplishments in sustainability from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). STARS, the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System, is a comprehensive framework for colleges and universities to measure sustainability performance and achievements in four categories […]

The UNC Charlotte campus, during the next five-year period, will be undergoing a heightened level of physical expansion. Over the past year Facilities Management (FM) and Financial Services worked together with campus units to create a strategic Five-Year Capital Construction Plan, which was approved by Chancellor Philip L. Dubois. The Five-Year Plan, as its most […]

In The Princeton Review’s seventh annual edition of its “green guide,” the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is listed among the 361 most environmentally responsible colleges in the nation. Factored in to this designation includes the University’s continued excellence as the region’s premier urban research institute, its commitment to build all future building projects […]

The Facilities Management Building Environmental Services and Recycling (BES&R) unit takes great pride in its responsibility to maintain the cleanliness of campus facilities. Through its cleaning program, BES staff thoroughly clean offices/cubicles once per week. The weekly services, which are rendered on Wednesday evenings, include: Vacuum floors; and Dust and wipe down of furniture and […]

With the recent acquisition of two new LEAF vehicles University customers now have a ‘power trip’ option to select from among the University’s Motor Fleet offerings. The LEAF, an all-electric vehicle manufactured by Nissan, is currently available for daily rental. “Different from the per-mile rate we currently offer for other fleet vehicles, the LEAF can […]

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has joined the Green Sports Alliance, an organization that leverages sports to promote healthy and sustainable communities. According to their website, the Alliance achieves its success by “inspiring sports leagues, teams, venues, their partners and millions of fans to embrace renewable energy, healthy food, recycling, water efficiency, species […]

UNC Charlotte received a certificate of recognition during the Appalachian Energy Summit (AES) in recognition of its commitment and achievement to reduce campus energy consumption by 30 percent. In 2003, state agencies were given an ambitious 30 percent energy reduction mandate to achieve by 2015. Throughout this time, Facilities Management has worked on ways to […]

Facilities Management’s Brent Offenberger hoped for an uneventful vacation fishing trip in Newport News, Va., on the James River. The outing, which included his teenage son, and father-in-law, appeared to be going as planned – until the unimaginable happened. With virtually no warning, a U.S. Navy MH-60S helicopter crashed into the river during a routine […]

Peter Franz, the University’s landscape architect, talks about the experience Blue Line Extension riders can expect when light rail arrives on campus.