B & G helps keep KU clean
By MARK RIMMER
"I think KU has the cleanest, most attractive campus in the nation," says Harry Buchholtz, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds (B & G).
"I have visited all the schools in the Big Eight and Big Ten and practically all of the major colleges and universities in the United States." he says.
B & G handles all of the landscaping on campus, however, landscaping is only a small phase of its operations.
"We ARE A self-contained organization," Buchholtz says. "We have our own carpenters, electricians, custodians, engineers, garage, transportation system, painters, watchmen, telephone operators, traffic and security police, maintenance and construction crew, plumbers and power plant."
B & E employs 300 persons and 30 students.
This summer they remodeled the Dean of Women's office and Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe's office.
Routine upkeep keeps maintenance and construction crews busy constantly. They repair campus roads and keep water and sewage lines in good shape. Ice and snow are frequently being removed from the sidewalks and campus roads during the winter months.
craftsmen in the Midwest," Buchholtz says.
B & G will set up the electrical equipment used for the Al Hirt performance homecoming week-end. They take care of all the PA systems used on the Hill.
"We do just about anything that needs to be done," said Buchholtz.
The mechanical shop keeps all B & G vehicles in good working order. "On occasion we get some real unusual requests," Buchholtz says. Last year a car was driven into Potter Lake and B & G helped pull it out. Contact lenses
have been dropped down drains where a plumber has had to come to the rescue. Once a diamond ring had to be taken out of a sink drain. B & G also has its own engineering department which does all the survey work on campus.
"It costs over two million dollars a year to maintain KU," Buchholtz says. "In the past five years the workload has doubled."
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