{"id":71,"date":"2020-11-10T03:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webtest.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2022-02-22T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:51:36","slug":"groundskeeping","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/groundskeeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounds Maintenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our physical plant grounds team is responsible for managing the physical assets and natural resources of our campus to ensure that the exterior environment is aesthetically pleasing all year round, as well as safe and accessible during inclement weather for all students, staff and visitors to our campus.<\/p>\n<h2>Landscape Care<\/h2>\n<p>Our dedicated team of grounds staff work throughout the year to maintain a healthy campus landscape, all while using the most efficient and eco-friendly methods.\u00a0 These services include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maintaining parking areas and sidewalks, including snow removal and ice management during winter months<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining grounds ( mowing, weeding flower gardens, pruning shrubs and trees and planting trees and flower gardens.<\/li>\n<li>Maintaining outdoor signage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span>To Submit a Request to Handle Outdoor Clean up or Report a Safety Hazard<\/span><\/h2>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.office.com\">S<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.office.com\">ubmit an online work request<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Snow and Ice Removal<\/p>\n<p>Winter safety work on Brandon University&#8217;s campus is very important to us.\u00a0 Our grounds crew works to clear ice and snow from primary walkways, common spaces and stairways by 8:30 am.\u00a0 Primary areas include wheel chair ramps, building entrances, fire exits and high traffic walkways.<\/p>\n<p>Our crews do their best to clear ice and snow as quickly as possible, but remember to stay safe by practicing safe winter walking. Please enjoy this video : <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LHaWGibGwyk\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/LHaWGibGwyk<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span>Brandon University Campus Master Plan<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/campusplan\/\">Campus Master Plan<\/a> will help shape physical aspects of the BU campus for decades in the future.\u00a0 It was approved by the Brandon University Board of Governors in June 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our physical plant grounds team is responsible for managing the physical assets and natural resources of our campus to ensure that the exterior environment is aesthetically pleasing all year round, as well as safe and accessible during inclement weather for all students, staff and visitors to our campus. Landscape Care Our dedicated team of grounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159,"parent":0,"menu_order":33,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/physical-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}