• Cleaning Offices
• Cleaning Classrooms and Class Labs
• Cleaning Public Areas
• Moving furniture and Equipment
• Interior Pest Control
• Providing Chalk, Erasers, and Marker board supplies
• Special Event Setup and Tear Down
• Solid Waste Removal

Direct comments or questions to Jim Veiga, Director of Environmental and Landscape Services
402-554-2500.

Environmental Services schedules are optimized to support campus activities on a twenty-four (24) hour, seven (7) day week requirement. The department is responsible for the general sanitary appearance of all campus buildings, except the Milo Bail Student Center and student residence halls.

The major workforce performs scheduled cleaning Monday through Friday beginning at 5:00 a.m. and ending at 1:30 p.m. An Afternoon Shift Crew provides supplemental cleaning in public areas and responds to emergencies Monday through Friday beginning at 12:00 p.m. and ending at 8:30 p.m. A Night Shift Crew cleans hallways, stairwells, walls, entryways; provides Alumni Center setups, high pressure hot water carpet extraction, HPER and Fieldhouse shower and locker room cleaning and pest control Sunday through Saturday from at 10:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. A supplemental work group provides weekend night cleaning and prescheduled event setup.

Environmental Services daily routine cleaning schedules include hard surface floor care, carpeting and upholstery, shower and locker rooms, restrooms, water fountains, athletic training rooms, saunas, steam rooms, stairwells, walls, waste receptacles, recycling containers, telephones, entryway glass, elevators, classrooms, offices, and cigarette receptacles.

Environmental Services furnishes: chalk, erasers, and maker board supplies.

Secondary services provided are: moving and pest control.

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Environmental Services provides moving services for University equipment and furniture which support academic programs. A request for a move is to be called to extension 554-3600 or e-mailing unofacilities@mail.unomaha.edu not later than ten (10) working days prior to the anticipated move date. Moving resources are optimal between 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Please consider the start time when the request is made. Major project moves are coordinated through Facilities Management and Planning and Environmental Services. In Some instances, equipment and furniture will be contracted by an off campus vendor due to the size and complexity.

Environmental services furnishes: boxes, Styrofoam packing, and tape.

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Environmental Services provides campus interior pest control. An EPA/Nebraska certified license applicator is on staff. Pest control includes the management of animals, insects and rodents. Requests for assistance are to be made by calling extension 554-3600 or e-mailing unofacilities@mail.unomaha.edu. Scheduled preventive treatments are applied during weekends, breaks, and holiday closures.

To increase the effectiveness of the program it is important that all food and drink materials in office areas be kept in sealed metal containers.

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The University of Nebraska at Omaha actively participates in projects and programs that foster practices which reduce, reuse, and recycle materials.

Program objectives:

(1) Insure the University community is aware of the importance of the environment and daily recycling practices through individual participation.

(2) Maintain recycling and environmental timetables established by Federal, State, and Local Municipal governments for program refinements.

(3) Reduce the amount of un-recycled and un-used waste produced by the University community.

The recycling program is managed and operated by Environmental and Landscape Services. The campus recycles mixed-paper, cardboard, metals, ink toners and copier cartridges, batteries, petroleum products, plastics, and stand-alone items unique to some departmental activates.

In partnership with Weyerhaeuser Recycling, participants recycle through an "All-Office Mixed Paper Program." This program includes the recycling of: books; hard or soft cover, brown paper tape, corrugated cardboard, cardstock, computer printouts, manila file folders, keypunch cards, window; labeled and Kraft envelopes, glue pads and tablets, magazines, newspapers, telephone books, post-it-notes, onionskin, carbonless or NCR, shiny coated, ledger, colored paper, white paper, and spiral notebooks with the attached metal.

Office suites are provided a twenty (20) gallon blue metal recycling container by Environmental and Landscape Services for the office suite central collection point.

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Landscape Services include litter and waste disposal, snow and ice removal, fertilizing, mulching, and other routine scheduled grounds maintenance activates which support a grounds maintenance program. This department also provides parking lot and campus roadway sweeping, inlet cleaning, week removal, tree trimming, sport turf maintenance, flower bed maintenance, sign installation, and shrub maintenance.

Pest Management

Landscape Services primarily provides campus exterior pest control. At times Landscape Services staff are assigned to indoor pest management. Some assigned staff are EPA/Nebraska certified restriced chemical use applicators. Pest Control includes using an integrated pest management control program to reduce negative human and environmental impact. Requests for assistance are to be made by calling extension 554-3600 or e-mailing unofacilities@mail.unomaha.edu.

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