Building Maintenance includes all items related to routine repair of buildings and structures, including normally recurring repairs and preventive maintenance. The following are included:
- Interior and exterior of buildings
- Plumbing, heating, air conditioning and ventilation
- Electrical repairs of all types including primary and secondary systems, certain lamp replacements (requiring special ladders and rigging) and maintenance of outdoor lighting fixtures (excluding energy costs)
- Carpentry and cabinetmaking
- Painting and glazing
- Hardware, locks, keys, closers and records for same
- Roofing and sheet metal work, including downspouts and gutters
- Welding and necessary machine work
- Elevators and similar equipment
- Miscellaneous building repairs such as tuckpointing
- General-purpose classroom furniture and equipment within buildings.
- Utility distribution systems inside buildings - electrical, heating, process steam, water lines, gas lines and sewer lines (storm and sanitary)
- Operating and replacement costs of all equipment, materials and tools used in building maintenance, excluding hand tools furnished by employees