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, including housing, specialized laboratories, recreation center facilities, high-tech classrooms, playing fields and libraries.
NIU’s facilities serve over 15,400 students and 4,600 faculty and staff in a variety of academic, research, administrative, athletic and residential spaces.
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 and 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 Heating Plant is responsible for the overall maintenance of the university's main campus and various satellite campuses relating to central ventilation, heating and central air, energy management, hot water distribution for heating and steam, chilled water distribution for air conditioning and distilled water systems.
Building Maintenance and Operations
Building Maintenance and Operations provides the best physical environment for teaching, learning, research and community through maintenance and improvement of university facilities. Our products and services include, but are not limited to: energy, utilities and maintenance.
Planning and Design
Architectural and Engineering Services
Architectural and Engineering Services works to ensure that our campus building environments and facilities are safe, comfortable, durable and functional.
Campus Services
Materials Management
The Materials Management department provides operational support to the campus by receiving, processing and distributing mail, packages and freight; purchasing necessary supplies for resale to campus partners; facilitating inventory and surplus processes.
Parking Services
Parking Services aims to provide the campus community with safe, well-maintained parking facilities while managing the parking inventory, ensuring space is utilized effectively.
Transportation Services
Transportation Services manages the university fleet of approximately 200 vehicles for use by faculty, staff and students who are conducting official university business.