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Buildings and Grounds

 The Public Health Laboratory is a 70,000 square foot facility that houses three main testing laboratories, classrooms, office, and support facilities.  The PHL is situated on a 5 acre site in Shoreline, Washington.

 Building, Grounds, and Facilities is part of the PHL Operations Office and is responsible for maintaining the buildings and grounds, managing capital improvement projects, and installing and maintaining equipment throughout the laboratory.  The staff is on-site 11 hours per day during laboratory operations and is on-call during non-business hours for emergencies and special needs.

 Specifically, the Facilities Department is responsible for;

•  Building and laboratory equipment maintenance.

•  Preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance on all building equipment using a computerized maintenance program to generate work orders.

•  Managing the security access system including lock and key control.

•  Managing and evaluating mechanical, electrical, plumbing, landscaping, janitorial, and chemical contractors and vendors.

• Maintaining building life safety equipment.

• Emergency power generation.

• Responsible for record keeping of asset inventories and surplus items. Maintaining State motor pool vehicles stationed at PHL.

•  Relocating offices, repairing office furniture, office equipment, and movable walls.

•  Setting up meeting rooms.