Building Services | Facilities Services

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Gordon Nelson

Assistant Director

Contact Information:

Phone: (865) 974-5107

Email: gnelson5@utk.edu

Fax: (865) 974-7786

About:

— Assitant Director at Facilities Services since 2011

— Prior Experience: Director of Property Management at The University of Maine

— Prior Experience: Director of Facilities Management at Stetson College of Law from 2002-2004

— Current member of National Association of State Facilities Administrators. Held offices of Eastern Regional Vice President and National Secretary/Treasurer

— Member of Association for the Advancement of Sustainability In Higher Education since 2007

Building Services at the University of Tennessee recognizes that the number 1 reason why perspective students select a college or university to attend is “the appearance of the facility”!! In accordance with that goal, Building Service Teams service over 14 million square feet of University of Tennessee, Knoxville, University of Tennessee School of Agriculture, University of Tennessee School of Veterinary Medicine, and University of Tennessee System facilities in Knoxville.

Services are provided 7 days per week, 24 hours per day, to all athletic and academic facilities by Building Service Aides who embellish the role of “Essential Personnel”. This means that they come together for all emergency functions which affect University Operations. This includes Snow, Severe weather, and most importantly, Home Football Games.

Building Services provides professional APPA-Level 1 &2. This means the University of Tennessee Knoxville Campus has a world Class appearance in regards to its custodial services. Building Services supplies the following services: hard floor restoration, carpet cleaning, upholstery cleaning, wood floor maintenance, window washing, recycling, dusting, rubbish removal, vacuuming, lavatory disinfecting, and floor washing.

Building areas are cleaned daily (Monday to Friday) and frequencies are increased if needed. Special event cleaning is coordinated through issuing a work order in order to arrange the services needed. Services such as “Zero Waste”, Game Day Clean Up, and public events are coordinated this way.

Building Services uses 92% Green Products with the only exception being the use of a hospital grade disinfectant for lavatory, shower, and pool cleaning in order to give us maximum germ killing action. All paper is 100% made from recycled paper and our Hand Soap has been designed by our own UT School of Public Health. You should be assured that everything we do is done with the health of our faculty, staff, and students in mind.