February 07, 2024Plugged in and Powered Up: FM Launches Fleet Electrification Pilot
A quiet transformation has begun on the College Park campus as 51 distinctive vehicles - 25 vans, 23 pickups, and three SUVs - begin circulating the campus grounds. They are the first fully electric vehicles (EVs) in the Facilities Management (FM) fleet, part of a one-year pilot project, and an impo...View Article Details for Plugged in and Powered Up: FM Launches Fleet Electrification Pilot - February 05, 2024
The Top 3 Things You Need to Know About SHIFT
SHIFT is a new technology-driven approach to connect campus customers with facilities operations to get repair work completed quickly and efficiently.View Article Details for The Top 3 Things You Need to Know About SHIFT 
February 02, 2024Empowering Success: FM's English Language Training Program Relaunches this Spring
Approximately 20% of FM team members communicate in a language other than English. This language barrier can hinder access to important work-related information, limit career growth, and reduce confidence and engagement at work. To help address this challenge, FM is offering training opportunities t...View Article Details for Empowering Success: FM's English Language Training Program Relaunches this Spring 
December 13, 2023Behind the Scenes: Secrets of UMD’s Professional Housekeepers
If the thought of vacuuming your living room floor or cleaning your bathroom fills you with dread, consider, for a moment, the work facing Facilities Management’s (FM) Building Services team: Keeping nine million square feet in 100 campus buildings clean and healthy, from top to bottom, every single...View Article Details for Behind the Scenes: Secrets of UMD’s Professional Housekeepers - November 16, 2023
University Water Main Break
At 4:47 a.m. on Monday, October 23, an alarm alerted Facilities Management (FM) staff to a drop in water pressure at two campus buildings. That alarm was the first signal of a major water main break that would impact more than 60 buildings.View Article Details for University Water Main Break - October 26, 2023
Arboretum Tours for Mothers and Infants
The UMD Arboretum has reinstituted tours for mothers and infants that were cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic.View Article Details for Arboretum Tours for Mothers and Infants
