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Contact

Susan D. Reynolds
Manager of
Grounds Services
(812) 877-8233

 
Grounds Services

Grounds Services is responsible for maintaining the campus grounds providing students, faculty, and staff with an aesthetically gratifying and safe place in which to learn and work.

 

The unit consists of five full time staff and also employs three to six student workers at various times throughout the year.  On our staff we have a Licensed Commercial Pesticide Applicator in accordance with the requirements of the Office of the Indiana State Chemist.

 

 Grounds Services performs the following tasks:

 

  • Vehicle and equipment maintenance
  • Landscape design and installation
  • Planting of trees, shrubs, and flowers.
  • Pruning of trees and shrubs.

  • Sodding and seeding lawns.

  • Mowing and string trimming

  • Watering of trees, shrubs, lawns, and flowers. 

  • Fertilization of flowers, shrubs, and lawn

  • Mulching of trees, flower beds, and shrub beds

  • Cleaning and repair of campus roadways, walks, parking lots, and storm drains

  • Pond and lake maintenance

  • Pesticide application

  • Animal control

  • Installation and maintenance of grills, refuse receptacles, and benches

  • Snow and ice removal
  • Leaf removal
  • Collection of and transport of recyclables to recycling center

  • Refuse and recycling collection from the grounds and all buildings on campus

  • Set up of tables, chairs, trash receptacles, grills, and tents for outdoor (and some indoor) events

  • Maintenance and some repair of all tractors, Gators, service vehicles, trailers, and rental vehicles

  • Organization of and assistance to the students for Campus Beautification and Fall Brush Up

  • Trash collection, recyclable collection, planting, pruning, mulching, and weed control at Aleph Park East and Aleph Park West properties

  • Arranging contract work for snow removal and mowing for our off-campus properties

     

    Contact Susan Reynolds at 877-8233 or via email Susan.Reynolds@rose-hulman.edu

     

    Emergency Work Requests

    To submit emergency work requests during normal business hours contact:
         Work Order Administrator at 877-8425

    To submit emergency work requests after normal business hours contact:
    The Office of Public Safety at 877-8590

     

    For emergency event set-ups, contact Julie Lunsford at 877-8114

       

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    This page last updated on May 18, 2006
     

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