About Facilities Projects

Mission Statement

The Facilities Projects Department strives to ensure that the campus built environment is designed to promote the UCD mission of education, research, patient care and community service; enhances the qualify of life on campus and the surrounding neighborhoods; and is constructed in an effective, efficient and safe manner.

It further strives to ensure that campus property needs are achieved through effective acquisition, disposal and management.

Purpose

The Facilities Projects Department is responsible for administering the State Statutory requirements for Capital Construction and Controlled Maintenance projects on the UCD campuses.

Capital Construction

The purchase, construction, or demolition of buildings or other physical facilities, including utilities, or remodeling or renovation of existing buildings or other physical facilities, including utilities, to make physical changes necessitated by changes in the program, to meet standards required by applicable codes, to correct other conditions hazardous to the health & safety of persons which are not covered by codes, to effect conservation of energy resources, to effect cost savings for staffing, operations, or maintenance of the facility, or to improve appearance.

Controlled Maintenance

Corrective repairs or replacement used for existing State-owned, general-funded buildings and other physical facilities, including but not limited to, utilities and site improvements, which are suitable for retention and use for at least five years, and replacement and repair of the fixed equipment necessary for the operation of such facilities, when such work is not funded in an agency's operating budget to be accomplished by the agency's physical plant staff.


Primary Responsibilities

Design and Construction Management

Organizational Structure

The Facilities Projects Department has an internal staff of 13 people in addition to 4 contract personnel with an annual operating budget of $1.5 million.

The department manages over 75 projects with budgets of $600 million.

Organizational Structure Diagram

 

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