
Maintenance and Repair Services
Building Operations staff provide basic services for state-funded areas. Campus customers can request additional services on a recharge basis.
See How to Request Facilities Management Services.
As needed:
- Repair and maintain plumbing systems
- Repair and maintain skylights, windows and window hardware
- Clean, repair and replace rain gutters
- Repair and replace ceiling tiles
- Repair and replace classroom seating, floor coverings, cove and base molding, windows, doors, and door hardware
As needed or upon request:
- Perform power washing
- Repair and replace ceramic tile
- Renovate restrooms, including new partitions, plumbing fixtures, light fixtures and dispensers
Upon request:
As needed:
- Perform preventive maintenance on all roof systems
- Inspect all reroofing projects during construction
Upon request:
- Perform minor alterations
- Construct and install countertops, custom cabinets, shelving, mail slots and picture frames
- Install and configure furniture and partition systems
- Finish, touch up and repair furniture
- Repair and replace keyboard trays
Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
- As needed, change air conditioning filters and repair and maintain:
- Walk-in cold and warm boxes
- Building chillers and auxiliary chillers (microscope and MRI coolers)
- Trailer air conditioning units
- Package air conditioning units, split systems, gas packs, heat pumps, straight cooling and electric heat
- Upon request:
- Repair and maintain computer room cooling units
- Estimate, install and maintain department-purchased air conditioning units and equipment (We do not maintain or repair ultralow temp freezers, reach-in lab or kitchen refrigerators, chest freezers, ice machines, gas-fired furnaces or window air conditioning units.)
Alarms and Controls
- As needed:
- Repair, read and calibrate meters (electrical, water, gas, HTW and CHW)
- Repair and maintain:
- Fire alarm systems
- Elevators
- Automated clock systems in buildings
- Traffic signals
- As needed or upon request:
- Install electrical, water, gas, HTW and CHW meters
- Repair motor controls (VFD, soft starts, and magnetic)
- Upon request: Repair and maintain UPS and inverter systems
Note: We do not repair or maintain security alarm systems.
Lighting
- As needed:
- Replace light bulbs: Ceiling light fixtures, lab bench light fixtures, fume hoods, exterior building lights, walkway lights, and parking lot lights
- Replace lighting ballasts
- Troubleshoot lighting systems — complete buildings to individual light fixtures
- Replace or reset time clocks, photo cells and relays that control lighting systems
- Upon request: Install and maintain department-purchased light fixtures and control devices
Note: We do not maintain or repair portable lamps.
We repair or maintain department-owned or-purchased equipment on a recharge basis only. We do not maintain or repair electric scooters, lab or office equipment, telephones or microwave ovens.
Perform all aspects of electrical maintenance, construction and repair, including:
- Troubleshooting electrical equipment
- Relocating lab or office circuits
- Installing new or relocating lab/office circuits
- Installing new equipment
Annually:
- Perform preventive maintenance of all metal doors (building entry, office, lab, and mechanical rooms)
As needed:
Fabricate, design and install:
- Light-gauge sheets to heavy-gauge plate, angle iron, channel, etc.
- Supply and exhaust ventilation
- Fume hood ducting, trays and screens
As needed or upon request:
- Design and fabricate all types of sheet metal projects
- Repair and modify lab equipment
- Weld, including heli-arc, MIG, plasma, oxygen, and acetylene
- Repair and replace metal doors
- Maintain all metal handrails
As needed or upon request:
- Prepare, prime and paint new/existing interior ceilings, walls, stairs, handrails, ladders, casework, doors, frames, etc.
- Paint and stain exteriors and repair substrates
- Apply wall coverings, coatings and spray finishes
- Remove graffiti and apply protective coatings
- Epoxy floors
Questions?
Contact the Customer Relations help desk, (858) 534-2930, 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m., weekdays.