University of Utah Physical Plant and Operations Office records

University of Utah Physical Plant and Operations Office records, 1948-1967

Overview of the Collection

Creator: University of Utah. Physical Plant and Operations Office
Title: University of Utah Physical Plant and Operations Office records
Dates: 1948-1967 (inclusive)
19481967
Quantity: 13 linear feet
Collection Number: Acc0080
Summary: The Physical Plant and Operations Office was responsible for renovation, repair, and maintenance of campus buildings. This collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports concerning the planning of campus building maintenance and repair activities.
Repository: University of Utah Libraries, University Archives and Records Management
University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
666 Guardsman Way
Salt Lake City, UT
84112
Telephone: 8015818242
david.buhler@utah.edu
Access Restrictions: Material must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Languages: English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Physical Plant and Operations Office was responsible for the renovation, repair, and maintenance of campus buildings as well as for custodial services. During the period covered by these records, Dierctors of Physical Plant and Operations were William L. Woolf (1948-1956), Clayton H. Kimball (1956-1966), and Gene Bryant Cross (1966-1973).

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports concerning the planning of campus building maintenance and repair activities.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: University of Utah Physical Plant and Operations Office records, Acc. 080, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 080.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection is organized into three series: 1. Subject and Building Files; 2. Minutes, and 3. Employee Information, Evaluations, etc. The material is arranged alphabetically within each series.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Subject and Building FilesReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 1

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box
1	Alterations, Repairs, and Improvements to Biochemistry Laboratory
Folder
1	Alterations, Repairs, and Improvements	1958-1961
2	Arena, New - Planning	1965
3	Art Museum	1951-1954
4-5	Atomic Energy Commission - Dog Kennels	1956-1964
6	Atomic Energy Commission - Annual Report of Real Property	1956-1965
7	Baseball Field	1958-1962
8	Biochemistry Laboratory	1961-1966
2	Boiler to Budget
Folder
1	Boiler, Old Auxiliary	1961-1964
2	Boiler Inspection	1953-1966
3	Boilers	1955-1960
4	Bookstore	1955-1963
5	Boy Scouts	1961-1966
6-8	Budget	1951-1965
3	Buildings
Folder
1	Building 12a - Photographic Bureau	1950-1952
2	Building 16 - Seisomograph Laboratory	1954 March 16
3	Building 36 - Anatomy Annex, North Stables	1959
4-5	Building 100 - Muscular Dystrophy Research Laboratory	1948-1954
6	Building 105 - Main Annex, Fire Drills, Construction, Reassignments of Space	1950
7	Building 105 - Main Annex, Remodeling, Space Allocations, etc.	1949-1956
8	Building 114 - Muscular Dystrophy, Animal Pen for Dogs	1950
9	Building 183 - Office for Man in Charge of Repairs and Maintenance of Golf Course Equipment	1950
10	Buildings 202, 210, 216, 303, Medical Building Annex	1948
11	Buildings 115, 409, 414, 417, 418, 432, 436, 446, 502	1953-1956
4	Building Lists to Capital Improvements
Folder
1	Building Lists	1951; 1961-1967
2	Building Surveys	1954; 1962-1969
3	Business, College of	1961-1964
4	Campus Planning and Construction, Department of	1964-1966
5-6	Cancer Research	1949-1958
7	Capital Improvements	1964-1967
5	Cardio-Vascular Building to County Hospital
Folder
1	Cardio-Vascular Building	1950-1955
2	Central Hall - Building 112	1953-1964
3	Children's Hospital - Building 523	1959-1964
4-5	Civil Defense	1959-1964
6	Civil Engineering - Building 23	1953-1966
7	Construction in Progress	1962-1963; 1968-1969
8	Coordinating Council	1962
9	Cost and Statistical Studies for Utah's Colleges and Universities	1957-1958
10	Cost Comparisons	1957-1966
11-12	County Hospital	1952-1956
13	County Hospital - 4th Floor Project	1948-1949
6	Dearborn Aqua-Serv to Employee Driver Insurance Records
Folder
1	Dearborn Aqua-Serv of Utah	1964-1967
2	Digging Permits	1966-1967
3	Dorm Storage	1956
4	Drawings	1961-1965
5	Employee and Faculty Information	1958-1961
6	Employee Driver Insurance Records	1964-1965
7	Engineering and Heating Division to Fine Arts Center
Folder
1	Engineering and Heating Division - Correspondence	1960-1967
2	Engineering Hall	1948-1955
3	Equipment	1962-1964
4	Estimating and Special Jobs, Report on	1966
5	Explosive Research Storage	1956-1967
6	Extended Care Center	1965-1966
7	Federal Way	1961
8-9	Fieldhouse	1950-1967
10-11	Fine Arts Center	1949-1953
8	Flagpole to Heating
Folder
1	Flagpole	1956-1962
2	Fletcher's Inauguration	1964
3	Gas Contracts	1949-1953
4	General	1954-1967
5	Grant of 1948	1958-1965
6	Greenhouse	1948-1958
7	Greenhouse, New	1963
8	Gymnasium	1948-1955
9	Health Service	1952-1954
10	Heating	1957-1961
11	Heating - Samples of Daily Logs	1961
12	Heating - Coal	1957-1961
9	Heating Plant
Folder
1	Heating Plant	1958-1961
2	Heating Plant , Old	1955-1965
3-5	Heating Plant Inspections	1955-1967
10	Heating to Hydraulics Laboratory
Folder
1	Heating - Summary of Buildings for Heat Load Analysis	1964 January 23
2	Heating - Supplement No. 1 to "Heating System Extension (Year 1958)"	1964 November
3-6	High Temperature Water Heating Plant	1964-1966
7	Hodson, Paul W., - Business Vice President	1959-1962
8	Home Economics Building	1948-1955
9	Hydraulics Laboratory	1954-1966
11	Industrial Hygiene to Laboratory Air Conditioning
Folder
1	Industrial Hygiene - Department of Health - Building 503	1953-1965
2	Injury, First Report of	1963-1966
3	Insurance	1953-1966
4	Job Sheets	1960-1962
5	Jones, Robert M. - Superintendent of Shops & Utilities	1956-1966
6	Juvenile Delinquency Center - Building 401	1954-1962
7-8	Kingsbury Hall	1948-1956
9	Laboratory Air Conditioning - Kennel #5	1952-1963
12	Lawn Sprinkling to Maintenance Reports
Folder
1	Lawn Sprinkling	1957
2-3	Library	1948-1966
4-6	Maintenance, Deferred	1955-1959
7-9	Maintenance Reports	1958-1967
13	Mathematics Building to Medical Center
Folder
1	Mathematics Building	1949-1955
2	Mechanical Engineering	1954-1967
3	Medical Building	1957-1965
4-5	Medical Building Annex	1949-1962
6	Medical Building Fire Escape	1949-1950
7-8	Medical Center	1961-1965
14	Medical Center Housing to Merrill Engineering Building
Folder
1	Medical Center Housing	1967
2	Medical Center Utilities	1957-1965
3	Medical Department (Epizoology) - Building 518	1965
4	Medical Department (Physiology) - Building 520	1960-1966
5-7	Memoranda	1949-1967
8	Men's Dormitory - Ballif Hall	1955-1956
9	Merrill Engineering Building	1956-1961
15	Merrill Engineering Building to National Association of Physical Plants
Folder
1-2	Merrill Engineering Building	1962-1963
3	Metabolic Laboratory - Building 100	1959-1965
4-5	Meterology Classrooms - Building 406	1953-1963
6	Military Science & Tactics	1953-1960
7	Mineral Industries	1949-1969
8	Mines Building	1948-1952
9	Missle Disposal	1965
10	Music Hall	1958-1963
11	Music Hall (Old Union Building) -	1956-1958
12	National Association of Physical Plants	1957-1961
16	North Campus Landscaping to Park Building
Folder
1	North Campus Landscaping	1961
2	North Stables	1968
3-5	Orson Spencer Hall	1955-1964
6-7	Park Building	1951-1963
17	Park Building to Pioneer Memorial Theatre
Folder
1-2	Park Building	1953-1963
3	Park Building Annex	1960-1963
4	Pathology Department , County Hospital - Building 415	1953-1962
5	Payroll Status	1962-1967
6	Physical Plant and Operations Space Requirements	1959-1967
7	Physics Research	1964-1965
8	Pioneer Memorial Theatre	1957-1962
18	Planning and Construction to Reports
Folder
1	Planning and Construction	1956-1963
2	Plastic Laminating Machine	1957-1958
3	Playbox	1953-1959
4	President's Home	1955-1964
5	Psychology and Sociology Research - Building 403	1962; 1966
6	Pump House	1953
7	Radiation Laboratory	1950
8	Radiological Health - Building 504	1964-1966
9	Radiology - County Hospital	1957-1962
10	Rehabilitation Center	1959-1966
11	Reports - Miscellaneous	1957-1965
19	Roads to Stadium Press Box
Folder
1	Roads	1957-1965
2	Rocky Mountain Regional Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges	1953-1965
3	Safety, Security, and Traffic Complaint Reports	1966
4	Scenery Shop	1951
5	Service Center	1953-1954
6	Signal Generator	1951; 1965
7	Signs, Campus	undated
8	Sound, Garage and Paint Shop	1953-1964
9	South Stables	1957-1958; 1966
10	Special Events	1959-1967
11	Stadium Press Box	1952-1953
20	Stadium Village to Telephones and Communications
Folder
1	Stadium Village	1953-1967
2	Standard Operating Procedures	1951-1959
3	Stewart School	1948-1958
4	Storage Building - Building 409	1955-1967
5	Surgery and Pathology - Building 419	1961-1963
6	Telephones and Communications	1961-1966
21	Tennis Courts to Union Building
Folder
1	Tennis Courts	1951-1963
2-3	Union Building	1956-1964
4	Union Building Kitchen	1953
22	Union Building to Wasatch Hall
Folder
1-2	Union Building - New	1956-1964
3	Utah Association of Physical Plant Administrators	1953-1966
4	War Assets Administration Buildings - Buildings 202, 203, 204, & 205	1953-1955
5	Wasatch Hall - Building 508	1960-1967
6	Wasatch Hall - Building 509	1962
23	Water Main Break to Miscellaneous
Folder
1	Water Main Break	1962-1963
2	Water Reports	1957-1961
3	Weekend Call Directories - Samples	1965-1966
4-5	Miscellaneous	1951-1966

Minutes of MeetingsReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 2

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box
23	Meeting Minutes
Folder
6	Staff Meetings	1966 December-1967 October
7	Organization Analysis Meeting	1966 May 26
8	Engineering Division Meetings	1963-1967
9	Heating Division Meetings	1963-1967
24	Meeting Minutes
Folder
1	Shops and Utilities Division	1953-1955
2-4	Superintendents Meetings	1953-1962; 1964-1967
25	Meeting Minutes
Folder
1-2	Superintendents Meetings	1965-1967
3-6	Traffic Planning Committee	1964-1967

Employee Information and Evaluations, etc.Return to Top

Container(s): Series 3

(Series 3 is restricted)

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box
26	Employee Information
Folder
1-4	Employee Information	1958-1966
5	Employee Evaluations	1966
6	Employee Discharges	1966-1967

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

College buildings--Utah--History--Sources
College facilities--Utah--History--Sources
Universities and colleges--Utah--Salt Lake City--History--Sources

Personal Names

Cross, Gene Bryant
Kimball, Clayton H.
Woolf, William Layne

Corporate Names

University of Utah--Archives
University of Utah--Buildings

Form or Genre Terms

Correspondence
Minutes
Reports

Archives West Finding Aid

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