Central Shops: Paint

Brian Wallar, Supervisor
49-44904

• Painting Guidelines (PDF)
• Painting Guidelines (Word document)

The Paint Shop is a team of professionals dedicated to maintaining the physical environment of the interior and exterior of all academic campus buildings. This includes painting and wall-covering in classrooms, corridors, laboratories, offices, restrooms, stairwells, and building exteriors. In addition, we support new construction projects and all self-supported entities such as Athletics or Housing and Food Services. We provide specialized services to academic departments for their research, equipment, and prototype projects. We also provide consulting services to other departments on coatings application, material selection, specifications, inspections, and project planning.

The Paint Department is comprised of a supervisor who also supervises the roofing shop, the mason shop, and the sign center, two crew chiefs, one booth painter, and eleven 8th level painters. The department also utilizes the services of an in house technical paint specialist when it is necessary to write specifications, and provide technical consulting or estimates to Architects, Engineers, and other departments.

In addition to our stewardship responsibilities we support our internal customers, Central Shops, Project Teams, and Zones, as well as many external customers. The shop operates an environmentally controlled spray booth for custom finishing of wood, cabinets, doors, trim, furniture, equipment, and fabricated metal work. Also, we custom match existing colors, finishes, and textures. Whenever feasible, spray-painting equipment is utilized on building projects to expedite the process. Such equipment would include airless, conventional, electrostatic, and high volume low-pressure spray equipment. Wall-covering installations include paper, textiles, vinyl, laser prints, and wall-carpeting. We also apply multi-colored coatings and work closely with the Police and other departments to accelerate graffiti removal on campus.