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Facilities Maintenance and Operations

Maddie Huppert, a student worker in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, wraps a green band on an available seat in a Louise Pound Hall lecture space. The bands are flexible so they do not need to be removed when the student sits down.

Nebraska tops off classroom prep for return to on-campus instruction

August 10, 2020

The university will launch new procedures for sending and delivery of mail and packages starting March 20.

University adjusts all mail delivery and drop-offs

March 20, 2020

Drones

Drones take building recon, repair to new heights

February 21, 2020

The intersection of 14th and Vine streets will be the center of a water main replacement project this summer. The city-led project will cause disruptions to vehicle and pedestrian traffic on City Campus.

Water main project temporarily diverts campus traffic flow

May 11, 2018

Jeff Culbertson, assistant director of landscape services, shovels dirt around the root ball of an Engelman spruce during an Arbor Day observance in 2017 on East Campus.

Arbor Day activities feature tree plantings, live broadcasts

April 23, 2018

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is launching a plan to protect campus trees prior to the arrival of Emerald Ash Borer. The plan will protect about 10 percent of campus ash trees, including this blue ash on East Campus.

University outlines plan to protect ash trees

December 20, 2016

UNL landscape services employees Michael Tomjack (left) and Fred Thorne use a vibrating plow to install new irrigation pipe by the Van Brunt Visitors Center. UNL has started a campuswide upgrade of its irrigation system. When complete, it is projected to decrease campus water usage by at least 20 percent annually.

Irrigation upgrade to cut UNL's water use, expense

March 30, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

A renovation of the south entrance to UNL's Nebraska Union has started. The first phase of the project, which will continue into the first two weeks of the spring semester, upgrades drainage to direct rainwater away from the building.

Project to enhance original Nebraska Union entrance

January 8, 2016

City Campus utility plant worker Scott Zwiener logs boiler data on Nov. 11. Utility plant employees record the data every hour.

Boilers fire up to meet campus heating demands

November 12, 2014