What is Facilities Services?

 

Our mission is to provide, maintain, and optimize physical resources and environments through the integration of people, technology, and innovative work practices in order to support and promote the University of Tennessee's own mission and goals in instruction, research and public service.


Our Department is responsible for the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of the Main and Agricultural campuses of the University of Tennessee. We currently maintain approximately 217 buildings, containing almost 13,000,000 gross square feet of space; 556.4 acres; 5.1 miles of University-owned streets and 7.6 miles of City-owned streets within the campus boundaries; 33 miles of sidewalks and plazas; a University-owned electrical distribution system which annually provides over 223 megawatt hours of power to University buildings; and a University-owned Central Steam Plant with one natural gas and three coal fired boilers and a distribution system which annually produces over one half billion pounds of steam for heating purposes.

  
 

The Facilities Services Department welcomes suggestions for ways in which services can be provided more efficiently and for additional services which might be provided. Such suggestions should be made to the Executive Director  of the Facilities Services Department.