Facility Services for Higher Education
Create attractive, comfortable, and sustainable learning environments.
Most educational institutions are burdened with high utility bills and shrinking budgets. To save money, many are under pressure to cut staff or other educational programs. FWM offers a way to lower operating expenses and create funding solutions for critical infrastructure upgrades. With more than a century of using innovative services to keep campus facilities cost-effective, FWM ultimately helps you attract and retain students.
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Featured Higher Education Services
Custodial
The cleanliness of your campus buildings is critical for the health and well-being of your students, staff, and visitors. With FWM as your custodial services partner, you can achieve high standards while controlling spending and setting your college campus apart. Students and staff are happier at a school where the environment is attractive, tidy, and sustainable. With expertise in FWM GreenCare, our committed, highly trained workforce helps you achieve it.
HVAC & Mechanical
Provide a comfortable and engaging campus for students, staff, and visitors. FWM’s proactive approach to HVAC, mechanical, and temperature control system management protects your assets, reduces capital expenditures, and realizes energy savings. We keep your systems effective and sustainable.
Athletic Field & Turf Maintenance
Keep players and fans happy and safe. Maintenance of sports turf for stadiums and athletic fields requires technical expertise and specialty equipment to keep them playable and visually appealing. FWM uses industry best practices for baseball, football, soccer fields, and more, leveraging decades of experience to keep your athletic and sports fields looking their best.
Energy Performance Contracting
Looking to enhance building performance, but can’t find the budget for it? Reduce utility and maintenance costs by upgrading mechanical and electrical systems in dorms and other campus buildings. FWM helps you leverage dollars already in the budget to unlock future energy and operating cost savings. Use our expertise in energy performance contracting to achieve infrastructure improvements that attract and retain students.
Landscape & Grounds
The moment people step onto your campus, they form an immediate opinion. Your grounds maintenance should project the vision you want visitors to see and provide an engaging environment for students and staff. FWM will tailor a landscape solution for your microclimate, your budget, and your institution’s unique budget needs. With a customer retention rate over 90%, our team commits to providing value as your long-term landscape maintenance partner.
Facilities Engineering
Keep your campus buildings safe, clean, comfortable, and energy efficient. With a team of best-in-class engineers as your maintenance team, you can be confident in the consistent quality of your facility services. FWM will analyze your current equipment and operations to customize a program that conserves energy, lowers risk and cost, and eliminates waste to improve your bottom line.
Parking & Transportation
For many visitors, that first moment on campus might be looking for a parking lot or stepping off a shuttle. FWM parking lot management streamlines the parking experience, with smart traffic assessments and options for efficient revenue control. FWM undertakes stringent employee screening, hiring, and training procedures for shuttle services and parking management to keep your visitors and students happy and secure.
Electrical & Lighting
Well-maintained electrical lighting systems are critical to student safety and budget health. The proactive approach to interior and exterior lighting keeps energy costs down and answers security concerns with reliability. FWM electrical and lighting experts help you enhance the look and feel of an attractive, engaging campus.
Electrical Power
Proactive maintenance of your institution’s electrical systems reduces the risk of equipment failure, improves safety, and lowers operational costs. FWM is one of the only electrical service providers in the country with the expertise and capabilities to self-perform the entire spectrum of NFPA 70E compliance services. We are your true electrical power partner.
EV Charging Stations
The growing number of electric vehicles (EV) has shifted the refueling paradigm. College campuses are combining EV charging stations with innovations in solar and energy storage to realize benefits beyond sustainability metrics – including reduced energy spend, stabilized electricity costs, competitive differentiation, and new revenue streams. A leading installer of EV charging stations, FWM has experience combining innovative offerings and managing projects for educational institutions.
Integrated Facility Services
The value of your educational facility depends on equipment performance and the life of your physical assets. With more than 100 years of experience providing stand-alone and integrated facility services, FWM has the capacity and resources to oversee every square foot of your operations. Save time and focus on driving innovation with both in-house and strategic partners.
Benefits
Every dollar of your operational budget counts and FWM is committed to helping you meet your goals without upfront capital investment. We help you reduce operating expenses with cost-effective solutions that are customized to your institution’s needs.
One size does not fit all. Whether you’re looking for stand-alone or integrated facility services, we work hard to design and deliver services that satisfy your specific educational facility’s needs.
FWM keeps your campus buildings clean, healthy, and operating at peak efficiency, so prospective students can envision their future, and current students can concentrate on achieving it.
FWM has more than a century of experience providing maintenance services to educational facilities like yours. From small private schools to large public universities, FWM has the knowledge and expertise to help you reach your goals.
We are committed to helping schools find and fund improvements that reduce their impact on the environment. From green cleaning to lighting upgrades, sustainability is top of mind in everything we do. Through energy performance contracts, we help institutions revitalize their infrastructure – we’ve reduced our higher education clients’ energy use by an average of 26.5%, saving them more than $20+ million.
There’s power in consistently high-quality service that won’t go over budget. We self-perform most of our services with highly trained personnel to keep your campus thriving. We work with you to keep and train your key staff and hire local talent from the community.