The engineering facility of 500 New Jersey Avenue is staffed to provide necessary curative and preventive maintenance required to keep the building in top operational condition as well as address your service requests.

The engineering staff is responsible for repairs and maintenance of common areas of the building as well certain repairs and maintenance in tenant spaces. For questions regarding repair and maintenance services provided in your lease agreement, please contact the Property Management.

Repair and maintenance responsibilities include:

• Lighting maintenance (building standard light bulb replacement)
  
• Ceiling and floor maintenance (ceiling and carpet tile repairs/replacement)
  
• Door hardware and locks (additional keys, locks changed)
  
• Plumbing (leaks)
  
• HVAC (hot calls, cold calls and filter changes)
  
• Electrical (power failure)

From time-to-time tenants may require additional services typically not outlined in their lease agreement. Should you require this type of service, our maintenance staff would be happy to assist you for a fee of $40.00 per hour for the Maintenance Mechanic or $65.00 per hour for the Lead Engineer.

Should you require an outside contractor, Building Management will be happy to provide you with a list of approved contractor or secure a contractor for you. If you would prefer to utilize the services of a contract not listed, click here for additional information regarding service contractors, in the Tenant Alterations section of this handbook.