Facts and figures

Facilities Management:

  • is made up of over 300 dedicated employees
  • cares for 137 buildings
  • are stewards of 397,061 square metres of building space
  • up keeps 75,000 square metres of garden beds and natural space
  • cuts 80 acres of lawn each week in the spring and summer  
  • uses plants native to lower Vancouver Island in new landscaping
  • tends to over 1,500 rhododendrons, azaleas and companion plants native in Finnerty Gardens
  • maintains over 17 kilometres of underground water mains
  • metres the equivalent of 216 Olympic pools of water per year
  • oversees 3 distinct water sheds
  • registered 7 buildings for LEED Gold
  • uses a geoexchange system to heat and cool CARSA
  • monitors the equivalent power per year to run a 60 watt light bulb for 98,034 years
  • installed 4 green roofs
  • collects recyclables in 628 indoor recycling bins (527 recycling stations plus 101 glass bins)
  • recycles 1,000 tonnes of material each year, including 200 tonnes of paper
  • composts 430 tonnes of food waste each year
  • attends to over 4,000 work requests each month
  • oversees and creates over 375 schedules and procedures
  • maintains 8,424 pieces of building equipment plus 2224 inactive pieces of equipment
  • up keeps 4 turf soccer and 3 artificial surface fields
  • controls 12,000 separate irrigation heads
  • looks after 47 kilometres of fluorescent lamps
  • is responsible for over 60,000 doors and lock hardware
  • installed over 236 automatic door openers
  • built over 34 ramps for accessing buildings in wheelchairs
  • provided 25 lecture/ performance theatres with hearing assistive technology
  • applies over 17,000 square metres of paint each year
  • flush and tests 63 fire hydrants every 3 years
  • operates 4 main boiler plants and 3 standby plants
  • tests 500 backflow preventers each year
  • processes over 15,100 outgoing and 25,000 incoming pieces of mail each month
  • cleans over 3,660 offices, 33 lecture halls, 708 classroom/ labs and 404 washrooms
  • gets around on 37 electric gators, 4 electric cards, 30 motor vehicles, and 45 bikes
  • warehouses thousands of surplus furniture assets available for re-use