Who We Are

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Stewards of Western's built and natural environment

Facilities Management is responsible for the planning, development, construction, operation, maintenance, and stewardship of all the buildings, infrastructure, sites, and services within Western's campus community. We work closely with campus partners to coordinate new construction and renovation projects as well as to complete maintenance and service requests.

Our main departments include:

  1. Associate Vice-President's Office
  2. Facilities Operations
  3. Facilities Development & Engineering
  4. Business Operations
  5. Building Sevices (Caretaking)
  6. Parking & Visitor Services
  7. Sustainability

Facilities Management maintains over 9 million square feet of space in 100+ buildings that are joined together by 16kms of roadway and sidewalks situated on more than 500 acres of land. Our division employs 450 members in a variety of capacities and provides services including:

  • Campus mail services
  • Caretaking Services
  • Capital planning, design & development
  • Client Service work requests
  • Grounds maintenance
  • Heating & cooling
  • Infrastructure support
  • Keys (Building, office door)
  • Maintenance (Scheduled and emergencies)
  • New construction project management
  • Waste and recycling