North Carolina Central University's campus is 136 acres of hardscape, landscape, roadways, and utility distribution infrastructure that is maintained by the grounds team. Along with the campus, the grounds team also maintains properties throughout Durham. In order to accomplish all the necessary work and variety of tasks, the grounds team is organized into four subsections.
The campus landscape crew maintains all campus quads, ceremonial gardens, and other university property. Typical duties include daily trash and recycling pickup, mowing, watering, weeding, planting, sweeping, and de-icing. Other duties include snow and ice removal (which is an enormous task), manhole and storm drain maintenance, events support, building cleanouts and large-scale trash removal, graffiti removal, parking lot and sidewalk maintenance, and campus landscape support.
