University Center Building Services and Event Support
UC Building Services and Event Support team works with a wide range of students and staff members located in the University Center, ensuring people are following policies and procedures. Building Services team takes pride in the work done all year round from maintaining the cleanliness of the building, to building maintenance, and keeping the patrons safe.
The Event Support team consists of setting up and tearing down event spaces in the UC. Working early morning to late at night to ensure a successful event.
if you are needing assistance between 8:00am- 4:00pm, please call (406) 243-5082 or come see us in the Administrative office, UC 232
If you are needing assistance after 4:00pm, please call or text (406) 531-5586
UC Garden History
Initially, the 1965 planning commission designed the UC as three separate buildings connected by a courtyard. The gardens of this first plan were designed to tie the three structures together. But before the building opened in 1969, the roof and glass entrances were added to the project due to concerns of drifting snow and the cold Hellgate winds. The planters in the atrium were landscaped with plants indigenous to Montana and other temperate plants. Those plants died shortly after their first year because they didn't receive the cold period they needed for their buds to break dormancy.
Between 1971 and 1972, a change to the interior plants was made, and new plants from more tropical climates were planted. Many of the tropical plants, including primitive Cycads, the banana like Heliconia (Lobster Claw), and the South African Strelitzia Nicolai (Giant Bird of Paradise) were donated to the UC by the University of Texas. They also donated the now three-story tall Ficus lyrata (Fiddle-leaf fig tree). The tree was planted in 1972 when it stood only 8 feet tall.
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Standard Response Protocol (SRP)
This includes weather events, fires, accidents, and any other threat to personal safety. The (SRP) utilizes (5) standard responses:
- HOLD(New)
- “In Your Room or Area”
- Hold is called when halls or common areas need to be temporary cleared
- Recover people in the hallway
- Lock door
- Account for visitors and others
- Do business as usual
- SECURE (formerly LOCKOUT) “Get inside. Lock outside door”
- Recover student, visitors, and staff from outside building
- Lock exterior door
- Increase situational awareness
- Account for students, visitors, and others
- LOCKDOWN “Locks, Lights, Out of Sight”
- Recover people from hallway if it is safe to do so
- Move away from sight
- Maintain silence
- Prepare to evade or defend
- Lock door
- Lights out
- Do not open the door
- Prepare to evade or defend
- EVACUATE“To a location” – unless identified to respond to emergencies
- Bring roll sheet and to go bag
- Lead people to evacuation location
- Account for students, visitors, and others
- Report injuries or problems to first responders using red card/green card method
- SHELTER“state hazard and safety strategy”
- Hazards include
- Tornado
- Hazmat
- Earthquake
- Tsunami
- Safety strategies
- Evacuate to shelter area
- Seal room
- Drop, cover, and hold
- Get to high ground
- Lead appropriate safety strategies for hazards
- Account for students, visitors, and others
- Report injuries or problems to first responders using red card/ green card method
- Hazards include
- “In Your Room or Area”
For additional emergency preparedness information, follow the link below: