Higher education institutions face shrinking budgets, higher costs, aging infrastructure, staffing challenges, greater expectations, and more. You must do more with less. ɫ����can help.

For more than a century, schools have turned to ɫ����to address their most pressing campus challenges. We are experts dedicated to making a difference by bringing innovation, efficiency, and a service mindset to your entire campus and the wider community.

Our full suite of specialized services work together (and our teams work right alongside yours) to deliver integrated solutions that help make your operations more streamlined, more dependable, and more cost-effective.

Value

Our custom, expert-driven programs enable you to control costs and maintain your high standards for your buildings—inside and out. Since campus buildings are almost always in use, we make operating and maintaining them more efficient with effective staffing and labor utilization, process management, and innovative tools. We give employees the training, technology, and incentives to ensure consistent, quality service, allowing managers more time for proactive inspections and staff support.

Financial strategies

We understand the unique financial challenges our education partners face. ABM’s comprehensive financial solutions give you the ability to address critical facility needs without the need for capital investment. Our expertise in developing creative financing strategies allows educational institutions to generate capital within their existing operating budgets, taking them from reactive to proactive through long-term capital improvement programs.

ABM’s expert services and creative financial programs offer cost-saving strategies while maintaining high standards to improve your learning environments.

ɫ����Performance Solutions

ɫ����Performance Solutions provides a single-source solution across your school for cleaning, maintenance, facilities engineering, energy, parking and transportation, and more. By providing these offerings under one umbrella, ɫ����ensures greater service consistency, performance, and guaranteed energy and operational savings throughout your campus.

Elevating the campus experience

Cleaning Services

• Daily, routine cleaning
• Green cleaning
• Dorm turns
• Sanitation and disinfection services
• And more

Waste Management & Recycling

Specialty Services

• Kitchen and dining hall maintenance
• Carpet and floor care
• And more

Construction Services

Power Services

• Energy performance contracting
• Solar power infrastructure
• Preventative maintenance
• Guaranteed energy savings programs

Building Engineering & Maintenance

• Building automation systems (BAS)
• Preventive and predictive maintenance
• Equipment inspections
• Handyman services
• Plumbing and piping

EV Charging

• Design, build, and install
• Site consultation and analysis
• Integrated technology and reporting
• Preventive maintenance
• Warranty service and repairs

HVAC Services

• Preventative testing
• Commissioning
• Installation
• Maintenance
• Repairs, upgrades, and retrofits
• Test and balance

Lighting

• Retrofits and upgrades
• Installation
• Maintenance

Landscape & Turf

• Campus grounds and landscapes
• Athletic turf and sports field maintenance and renovation
• Irrigation systems
• Exterior pest and plant fertilization management
• Arbor care
• Aquatic maintenance

Electrical Services

• Repairs, replacements, and upgrades
• Energy savings
• Power and acceptance testing
• Energy saving retrofits
• Predictive and preventive maintenance
• Advanced controls
• Safety training
• Thermal imaging

Parking & Transportation

• Parking management and enforcement
• Revenue enhancement and expense control
• Cell phone and web-based solutions
• EV charging ports
• Shuttle and transportation services
• Valet and special event services

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Why ABM?

A trusted leader

Our nationwide resources give you many benefits, including easily adding temporary staff for special events or summer dorm turns, extensive support for maintenance projects and emergencies, and a variety of employee benefit packages to foster retention.

ɫ����is a trusted leader in the comfort, efficiency, and safety of shared environments across many industries. We are an authority in cleaning and disinfection, engineering, HVAC and mechanical, indoor air quality, energy management, mobility and parking, and so much more. ɫ����solutions work together to keep spaces and places safe, healthy, inviting, and productive.

Community

ɫ����is an essential workforce of 100,000+ diverse specialists who care for occupants, the communities we serve, and each other. Your campus will be staffed by team members who serve your needs while respecting your school’s culture. Your students and visitors will be greeted with one cohesive image—your image.

Culture & Inclusion

Our C&I efforts foster fair opportunities for all team members and cultivate a culture where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued.

ɫ����Cares

We encourage and empower team members across the company to volunteer and donate to causes important to them and their communities.

Impact Groups

Employee Resource Groups drive awareness, change, and innovation.

Career growth

Having a team made up of loyal, long-term personnel allows us to maintain service consistency, accountability, and cohesion with your staff. To encourage retention, ɫ����is dedicated to individual and professional advancement through leading training and career development programs.

Sustainability

ɫ����enables you to optimize and transform your campus to achieve sustainability goals. To validate your progress, we implement measuring tools and reporting platforms.

Sustainability is integrated into everything we do:

• We incorporate sustainability criteria across our value chain by ensuring that our suppliers use environmentally-preferable chemicals, paper, and equipment.
• We ensure that the products that we bring to our clients meet the highest environmental standards.
• ɫ����power, HVAC, lighting, and EV charging services improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
• We manage waste and recycling to reduce landfill use and meet zero-waste goals.
• We aim to bring consistency between our services and the way that we operate as a company by reducing our environmental footprint.

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Innovation

ɫ����applies data-driven insights supported by AI and machine learning to anticipate needs and advise clients proactively. ɫ����Connect improves service delivery and fosters stronger partnerships by keeping clients and teams connected to the campus' real-time needs and to each other. Through ɫ����Next, our innovation incubator, we prototype and assess new technologies and use living labs to test them in real-world environments. We continually explore new thinking and approaches to optimize operations and improve effectiveness for our clients and our teams.

ɫ����knows education

ɫ����provides facility, engineering, and infrastructure solutions for hundreds of schools. Every day, we improve health and safety, resilience, productivity, and sustainability.

• Serving schools since 1921
• Over 200+ institutions served
• 18,000+ Team members in education
• 4.5 Million students served every year
• 1 Billion sq. ft. cleaned every year

Compared to the national average, schools that prioritized campus appearance and partnered with ɫ����have...

• 2x Higher application rates
• 1.5x Higher new student enrollment rates
• 5% Higher student satisfaction scores
• 7% Higher retention rates

To learn more about our HigherEd Solutions call 866.624.1520.