About Facilities Management and Campus Services
NIU’s central campus consists of 756 acres. NIU's facilities include over 7.6 million gross square feet in 118 buildings, ranging from housing to specialized laboratories, recreation center facilities to high tech classrooms, playing fields to libraries.
NIU’s facilities serve over 21,000 students and 4,600
Customer Service and Maintenance
Building Services
The Building Services Department provides routine, intermittent and restorative cleaning for all academic, research, residence hall, and athletic facilities on campus. We strive to fulfill the university’s mission by providing students, faculty staff with top quality academic, research and employment experiences by maintaining a clean, healthy environment for our customers who occupy and utilize the offices, classrooms, laboratories, student residential, and public areas.
Grounds
Grounds is responsible for the day-to-day operations and overall maintenance of the NIU campus grounds to provide an attractive and safe environment. Additionally, the department provides support services for NIU craft, service departments and special events held on campus grounds.
Heating Plant
The NIU Heating Plant is responsible for the overall maintenance of the university's main campus and various satellite campuses relating to central ventilation, heating
Building Maintenance and Operations
The Building Maintenance and Operations provides the best physical environment for teaching, learning, research
Planning and Design
Architectural and Engineering Services
The department of Architectural and Engineering Services works to ensure that our campus building environments and facilities are safe, comfortable, durable and functional.
