Maintenance

• Carpentry—The carpentry shop at SAIC maintains and repairs structures and furnishings and finishes doors, windows, handrails, floors, walls, ceilings, cabinets, and shelving.
• Lighting and electrical—The electrical shop at SAIC keeps your lights on and your outlets powered. IRFM’s electrician covers emergency and safety issues, changes ballasts, resets circuits, checks outlet problems and works with SAIC contingents to provide electrical services for new projects or new equipment.
• Painting—The paint shop at SAIC does all interior and exterior painting of SAIC’s facilities from classrooms to critique spaces to offices. Paint schedules are coordinated around class schedules, semester activities, office availability, and project schedules.
• Paint selection—The type of paint and colors are chosen according to campus standards in order to make maintenance as efficient as possible. In some cases, special colors may be requested at an additional cost to the requesting department. Special colors must still be compatible with standard colors used throughout the building.
• Heating, cooling, and ventilation—Too hot? Too cold? While heating and cooling large or antique buildings like those on the SAIC campus is never an exact science, the HVAC shop will do its best get it right. The HVAC department is responsible for the maintenance of mechanical equipment related to heating and cooling, boilers, air compressors, and ventilation systems. Staff perform periodic safety checks on equipment and repair and install new machinery for more efficient temperature control.
• Plumbing—Sink clogged? Water fountain not working? Spot a leak? Our plumbing crew is there to help. From general maintenance services to installing bottle fill-up stations, the plumbers keep the campus flowing. General services include updating fixtures, repairing water pipes and cracked or broken drain lines, and fixing clogged toilets, sinks, showers, and tubs.
• Locks—Stuck outside a room? Or better yet, stuck INSIDE a room (it’s happened)? Our lock shop is there to help. General lock services include emergency response, lock and doorknob installation and repair, key request and replacements (with the exception of ARTICards which are handled by the ARTICard office.
• Water Cooler—There are several types of water coolers on campus. IRFM is working to phase out the Vertex plumbed line units, which campus engineering maintains, and replace with leased Nestle units maintained by Ready Refresh. Both of these cooler models are connected directly to a water line. Nestle also provides SAIC the Ice Mountain 5 gallon water bottle coolers. All units provided by Nestle also come with a department account to manage billing and request services. If for any reason your Nestle unit isn't working properly or you are concerned about filter replacement, you can contact via the following information: 800.950.9907, RREnterpriseSupport@waters.nestle.com

Small electronic equipment can be dropped off at any of the eCycling bin locations, listed below. Examples include:

• Small computer components (cables, wires, chargers/power supplies, modems, routers, keyboards, computer mice, etc.)
• Batteries of all types, lithiums excepted in CRIT locations ONLY
• Printers, toner and inkjet cartridges
• Incandescent light bulbs, no CFLs
• If you have something that is not listed, just ask CRIT about it

Larger items, such as desktop computers, monitors, and printers, can only be accepted at the CRIT Help Desk at MacLean 905. Please note, CRIT will only accept SAIC assets (indicated by a barcode asset tag somewhere on the device). For the donation of larger items, you can either take them to the MC Help Desk or schedule an on-campus pickup. To schedule a pickup, contact the Help Desk at crithelpdesk@saic.edu or 312.345.3535.

The following items are NOT accepted by SAIC for e-cycling:

• Microwaves
• Refrigerators
• Toasters
• Paper shredders
• Vacuums

eCycling Drop-off Locations

Deposit only what can fit in the bin; do not leave anything laying next to the bin.

280 Building (280 S. Columbus Dr.)

• Hallway outside CO 201, Media Center
• Hallway outside CO 104 

MacLean Center (112 S. Michigan Ave.)

• Hallway outside MC 801, Media Center 
• Hallway outside of CRIT Help Desk MC 905

Sharp Building (37 S. Wabash Ave.)

• Hallway outside SP 307, Media Center

Sullivan Center (36 S. Wabash Ave.)

• Hallway outside of SC 1232, Advanced Output Center

Residence Halls 

• eCycling bins for small equipment located near main Residence Life offices.         

Additionally, if the small electronics you want to dispose of are still in working condition, you might consider donating them to SURPLUS, instead of e-cycling.

SURPLUS is a system for material reuse at SAIC. SURPLUS is a service station where used and excess materials can be made available for other students to take and use for free. Students can bring anything they no longer need—materials, former art projects, etc., as long as they meet the material guidelines posted—and take away stuff that they can use. SURPLUS provides a constantly changing resource for materials for artmaking, and it keeps quantities of used and excess materials that the school produces out of the landfills.

SURPLUS Locations 

• 280 Building, 280 S. Columbus Dr., room 123, Monday: 2:00–3:00 p.m., Thursday and Friday: 2:00–3:00 p.m. 
• Sharp Building, 37 S. Wabash Ave., room 312, open during shop hours