Maintenance & Operations Main Line & Work Order Billing Inquiries: Olga Anderson, 282-2694
Director of Facilities Operations: Steve Fuger, 282-2784
Supervisors
Maintenance & Operations Manager: Edward Cash, 282-4502
Electricians: Electrical Foreman: Michael Toler
Shops: Construction Foremen: Michael Brien 282-2767, Brad Peck, 282-4452
HVAC Main Line
Mechanical Systems Supervisor: Rodney Chlarson, 282-3555
The HVAC (Heating / Ventilation / Air Conditioning) Department is responsible for maintaining the building mechanical equipment in the Pocatello academic buildings to provide comfortable temperature conditions for the building occupants. Specialty equipment of various departments, housing facilities, and auxiliary department equipment are serviced upon request by work order or in an emergency.
Heat Plant
Mechanical Systems Foreman: Mark Cates, 282-2696
The central heating plant is located in building #20 and provides steam to about 40 campus buildings for heat, hot water, and steam-related equipment. The plant operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the heating season from about mid-September to June. The plant is permitted to burn 3,810 tons of coal per each heating season, and uses natural gas as needed. Steam is supplied by means of piping located in a steam tunnel system, consisting of about two miles of tunnel throughout campus. Of all the steam used by the campus, about 80% is returned to plant in the form of water to be re-used to make new steam. The current steam plant was constructed in 1947 and two of the original boilers are still in use today.
Interesting Facts
Where was the steam plant located prior to 1947? Answer: Basement of Liberal Arts.
Colonial Hall, built in 1925, and the Administration Building, built in 1939, still have some of their original heating equipment in use.