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  • FOD Operations Updates

    rahe.21@osu.edu | November 13, 2025
    Our FOD Operations team has been busy all summer and this semester refreshing and preparing campus for all of our students, faculty and staff. From floor waxing and painting to landscaping and road repairs, our last few months have been dedicated to improving your campus experience.FOD Operations has completed many maintenance, repair and renovation projects and custodial staff touched nearly 11-...
    Two men are seen cleaning a carpet.

  • Ohio State ranked 28th on the Princeton Review’s list of Top 50 Green Colleges

    rahe.21@osu.edu | October 30, 2025
    Ohio State has been ranked 28th on the Princeton Review’s list of Top 50 Green Colleges. This is the first time Ohio State has been recognized for this distinction and is the highest ranked school in the Big Ten.More than 25 survey data points were analyzed to tally Green Rating scores. The rating was developed to provide a measure of a school's performance as an environmentally aware and p...

  • Cooling-to-Heating Transition

    rahe.21@osu.edu | October 29, 2025
    Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) maintenance personnel will conduct the annual cooling-to-heating season transition in several academic campus buildings beginning next week, necessitating increased activity of FOD maintenance personnel in and around the mechanical spaces of the buildings.Maintenance personnel will shut down certain cooling systems, where applicable, and perform the pro...
    collage of winter morphing to summer

  • Compost Your Pumpkin This Fall

    bartholomew.185@osu.edu | October 17, 2025
    Don’t let your pumpkins haunt the landfill after spooky season is over! Help next year’s pumpkins grow by composting your old jack-o’-lanterns, gourds, and cornstalks. Now through Tuesday, December 2, faculty, staff, and students living off-campus can drop off pumpkins, gourds, and cornstalks in the labeled roll-off dumpster in the Uniprint parking lot located at 2500 Kenny Road. The site is...
    Compost your pumpkins

  • I Know What FOD Operations and OTDI Did Last Summer

    bartholomew.185@osu.edu | September 24, 2025
    While The Ohio State University campus quiets down in the summer months for many, it’s anything but slow for Facilities Operations and Development (FOD) and the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI). OTDI spent the summer transforming classrooms into modern, tech-enabled learning spaces, while FOD kept campus running smoothly with essential maintenance and upgrades.At Postle Hall, cr...
    A close-up photo of a vacuum on the carpet.

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