Corporate Center Construction and Facility Management
Apart from coordinating, organizing, and carrying out construction measures, the corporate center’s core task is technical, infrastructural, and commercial facility management.
Facility Management (FM) is responsible for organizing technical operations and ensuring good working conditions for teaching, research, and study as well as the long-term maintenance of building fabric, technical equipment, and facilities. Facility Management’s objective is to ensure safe, economical, and energy-optimized operation of the university’s buildings and infrastructure.
- New construction, renovation, and conversion measures
- Building maintenance and appeals
- Coordination between BLB NRW (NRW Building and Real Estate Department) and companies regarding construction planning, preparation, and implementation
- Tendering, execution, accounting, inspection and approval, and documentation of own construction measures
- Participatory procedures, staff councils, and representation for severely disabled persons
- Architectural development planning for North Campus and South Campus
- Negotiations, maintenance planning, operational planning with BLB NRW
- Maintenance management (TGA – Technische Gebäudeausrüstung (Technical Building Services))
- Energy efficiency
- Management of operating licenses
- Inspection and servicing management
- Technical and contractual documentation management
- Order and incident management
- Inventory management
- Energy controlling
- Operations office
- Procurement, contract award and invoice management
- Contracts and consumption invoicing
- Warehousing and materials management
- Central tasks and building maintenance
- Minor conversion and maintenance work
- Building maintenance work: Bricklaying, plastering, paving, carpentry, and painting work
- Maintenance of outdoor areas, gardening work, traffic safety, signage
- Winter service, smaller removals, waste disposal
- Real estate and rental management
- Central room allocation for teaching, examinations, and special events
- Parking management
- Caretaker services
- Cleaning services
- Security services
- Locking system management (issue and return of keys and transponders)
To report faults and malfunctions in the buildings or inadequate cleaning, please contact the responsible janitor teams via their functional email address.
- Electrical engineering
- Operation, repair, and maintenance of the power supply system
- 10 kV medium-voltage grid
- Elevators, conveyors, cranes, rolling doors
- Technical building systems, power units
- Measurement and control systems
- Room lighting, outdoor lighting, security lighting
- Building control systems, field devices
- Fire alarm systems
- Hazard detection systems
Overview Section Workshops Electrical Engineering (PDF, in German)
Operation, repair, and maintenance of:
- Heating systems, sanitary systems, circulation cooling systems
- Wastewater systems, compressed air equipment
- Ventilation systems, refrigeration systems
- Underground natural gas network, underground drinking water supply
- Fume cupboards and safety cabinets, special inspection tasks
- Locksmith work
Overview Section Workshops Mechanical Engineering (PDF, in German)
- Central systems
- Operation, repair, and maintenance of the combined heat and power plant (CHP)
- Operation, repair, and maintenance of the heating and cooling plants
- Building control systems
- Central control room and fault desk
- Back-up power systems, heating and cooling plant
- Land management
- Sustainability