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  • City of Ohio State Podcast Episode 2: Deferred Maitenance with Brett Garrett

    November 9, 2022
    On episode seven of The City of Ohio State Podcast, FOD’s Brett Garrett goes into detail on deferred maintenance. Like homeowners are forced to sink their hard-earned cash into rooftops, air conditioners or other non-aesthetic improvements, Ohio State must invest in vertical infrastructure to keep buildings up and running. Hear the challenges facing aging college campuses, and why Ohio State may...
    city of ohio state podcast with photo of brett garrett - episode 7

  • In the News: Cleaning up the ’Shoe

    November 7, 2022
    It’s dirty, stinky, often disgusting work. But everyone doing it knows how vital it is. “It’s walking and walking, feet hurtin’, perseverin’, digging into bags of half-eaten food, the worst stuff in the world, but it’s essential we do it,” says Maya Hammond, a Zero Waste intern who spends her home football games sorting the waste at Ohio Stadium. Being on the team means spending 10 hours at Ohio...
    Zero waste volunteer chats with man and woman near recylcing bins inside stadium

  • ArboBlitz 2022 brings new trees to campus

    October 28, 2022
    The 2022 ArboBlitz was quite the poplar event on Oct. 28, as nearly 60 volunteers teamed up with FOD Landscaping Services and the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens to plant dozens of trees outside of The Ohio Union in just three hours. To prepare for the big day, FOD’s certified arborist team determines locations for planting, prepares...
    Volunteers gather around staff as they plant a tree.

  • Volunteers Help Beautify Jennings Hall Rain Garden

    October 13, 2022
    On Saturday, October 8, student volunteers joined Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) staff to clean and maintain the Jennings Hall rain gardens. Volunteers, including the Texnikoi Engineering Honorary and the Ecological Engineering Society, weeded, trimmed perennials and mulched 22 garden boxes during the annual fall event, which has taken place since 2013. The rain gardens were among the first...
    Students participating in the Jennings Rain Garden Clean-Up.

  • Cutting-Edge Lawn Care

    August 16, 2022
    Summer is a busy time of year for Mike Koeritzer of Facilities Operations and Development (FOD). The FOD landscape superintendent says he and his team are beautifying Ohio State’s campus as students return to school this fall. “We are cleaning up landscape beds, mulching, mowing, edging sidewalks to get the campus looking good,” Koeritzer said. To aid in the effort, and to address sustainability...
    An electric mower with a landscaper in the background cleaning up grass.

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