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Grounds:
- The U.S.C. campus is comprised of 300 acres including 100 acres of turf, 100 acres of parking and 1,056,200 linear feet of sidewalk.
- The U.S.C. campus landscape is home to over 3,000 trees representing over 75 different varieties.
- Grounds Services maintains 550 exterior waste receptacles across campus.
- Grounds Services spreads approximately 5,000 pounds of grass seed across campus each year.
- Grounds Services spreads approximately 13,000 pounds of fertilizer across 60 acres of turfed landscape each year.
- Grounds Services purchases over 9,600 plants each year for planting in University flower beds.
Custodial Services:
- Each custodial person in Academic Facilities is scheduled to clean approximately 66,000 square feet of space daily.
- The U.S.C. Campus consumes annually approximately 10,992,000 linear
feet of toilet tissue or 2,081 miles. In addition, approximately 874,200
feet of paper towels or 165.5 miles is consumed by the campus annually.
- Custodial Services applies approximately 620 gallons of floor finish to
University floors annually.
Recycling:
- USC collects over 20 different types of materials for recycling, equating
to 3,600 tons annually.
- The University composts 100 pounds of organic material daily.
- The University generates over 10,400 cubic yards of uncompacted trash monthly.
- The University recycles over 1,580 cubic yards of mixed paper annually.
- Over 4,100 recycling bins have been distributed to the USC campus for
paper and aluminum.
- In addition to recycled materials, the University spends over $250,000
annually to collect and dispose of trash.
Utility Services:
- On a typical day the University consumes approximately 1.2 million gallons of water.
- Utility Services maintains approximately 16,000 tons in refrigeration and
A/C units across campus which is enough to supply approximately 4,000 average sized homes.
- It costs the University approximately $11.5 million annually to meet the heating,
cooling, lighting and water needs to the university campus.
- The University consumes enough electricity annually to supply approximately 11,000
average sized residential homes.
- The University generates over 340 million pounds of steam each year to provide
building heat and hot water.
- The University has over 10 miles of underground steam, condensate and
chilled water piping across campus.
- The University has about 9 miles of underground high voltage
electrical cable across campus.
Facility Maintenance:
- Approximately 60,000 locks are maintained campus wide by the University.
- Approximately 80,000 keys have been issued to University Personnel.
- Approximately 15,000 HVAC filters are changed annually.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 2,500,000 square feet of roof or
approximately 57 acres.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 7,500 outside lights.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 350,000 lighting fixtures on campus.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 1500 electrical panels.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 90 emergency call boxes.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 48 emergency generators.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 22.2 million linear feet of wiring in
university facilities or approximately 4,200 miles.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 76.5 million liner feet of pipe or 14,500 miles.
- Facility Services maintains approximately 40,000 windows across campus.
- Over 4,000 gallons of paint is applied each year to maintain university facilities.
- Facility Services receives approximately 26,000 service requests annually for
maintenance and improvement work.
- Facility Services maintains 180 buildings on campus, which total nearly 9.9
million gross square feet.
- The estimated replacement value of USC's Facilities is in excess of $788,000,000.
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