Physical Plant

We perform preventive maintenance and repair for all campus buildings in all the building trades areas – carpentry, electrical, heating and air conditioning, painting, roofing, masonry and locks and doors. If you need routine repairs in your residence hall, your classroom or your office, please submit an online work request.

For information or expert advice in various building trades areas, call:

• Residence Halls, GSU & the Commons: Zach Parker, ext. 8-5992
• Plumbing, Electrical & Elevators: Glen Hughes, ext. 8-5991
• Carpentry, Masonry, Locksmith & Roofing (leaks): Keith Brown, ext. 3-6008
• Boilers, Furnaces, Unit Vents & Mechanical Rooms: Neil Kennovin, ext. 3-6204
• Heating/Ventilation & Air Conditioning/Refrigeration (HVAC): Kurt Jefferson, ext. 8-2525
• Physical Plan Assistant Director: Jonathan Cooper, ext. 8-2532

Sure, our Horticulture and Grounds Department maintains our nationally accredited 200-plus-acre arboretum, but they also care for all aspects of the campus, from maintaining our beautiful fountains to overseeing trash removal and recycling.

We didn’t get to be a 200-plus-acre campus with over 80 buildings by standing still! Find out more about what we hope to achieve in the future with our Facilities Master Plan.

How do SU’s buildings stay so clean? Next time you notice, be sure to thank our Housekeeping staff! These individuals work diligently day and night – literally – to keep classrooms, offices, residence halls and common areas looking as good as possible.

Have a housekeeping request? Call 410-543-6118. The Housekeeping Office may not be staffed on weekends and after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays. For requests at those times, call University Police at 410-543-6222 and ask them to contact the on-call Housekeeping staff member or supervisor on duty.

SU’s Motor Pool maintains a fleet of clean, safe, well-maintained cars, vans, buses, and maintenance and utility vehicles for official University use. Need a car for an academic conference or a van for a student organization event? Want information on the SU shuttle system? Need options for getting out and about in the community? This is the office to help.

SU’s Support Services and its PIC Operations are the materials management office for campus, from purchasing, moving and storing furniture and equipment to delivering your shipments to providing name tags and Physical Plant uniforms.

Tim Jones, Energy Manager: 410-548-2258 • tmjones@salisbury.edu

Did you know 27 of SU’s buildings are connected to a central automation system, which allows Physical Plant staff to start and stop HVAC equipment, adjust temperatures, confirm operations and troubleshoot issues from a single location? This is just one of the ways we’re working to provide comfortable work and learning environments as economically as possible.

It’s no easy task! The Energy Management Department oversees 20 chillers ranging from 60 tons to 500 tons of cooling to all major buildings on campus, as well as 250 tons of geothermal heating and cooling serving four buildings, and 52 boilers and water heaters providing heat and domestic hot water. That’s in addition to all of the individual air conditioners, heat pumps, small boilers and furnaces scattered throughout campus.

Want to see how it all ties together? Take a look at our Utility Consumption and Costs since 2020 to see how we are trying to be effective and efficient while maintaining a comfortable environment.

Physical Plant staff will enter a student room or faculty/staff office only if they are responding to an emergency call or have a work order for maintenance to be done in that room or office. Staff will knock on the door and announce their presence by saying, “Maintenance!” If no one answers, they will knock again, identify themselves, then enter the room.

• Priority 1 work orders are emergencies, life safety and security issues that require immediate attention.
• Priority 2 are time sensitive and business essential, with a response in one to two days.
• Priority 3 are routine and are completed in the order received.
• Priority 4 have specific deadlines.
• Priority 5 are preventative maintenance items.
• Priority 6 are renovations, new installations and projects to be completed based on time availability.

If we are in cooling season and the outside air temperature is below 70 degrees, cooling systems generally are turned off. In heating season, if the outside temperature is above 50 degrees, heating systems generally are turned off. These policies were developed to help conserve energy while providing a comfortable environment for our students.

Please call the Physical Plant Service Center at 410-677-3097 to report any bug activity. The Physical Plant will log the sighting, and the exterminator will respond.