Crews prepare Museum of Anthropology for new exhibit’s opening night
The exhibit opened on May 11th with over 1,000 guests and remarks by Prince Amyn Aga Khan, the younger brother of His Highness the Aga Khan, and a lifelong supporter of the arts.
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Top Stories Attendance at Delta Career fair helps build awareness for careers at UBC UBC participated in the inaugural career fair hosted by the Municipality of Delta. The goal was to reach out to the community and market ourselves as an employer with trade specific opportunities. The Building Ops team met some candidates, secured resumes, […]
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Top Stories LOWER MALL DES CONSTRUCTION WORK MOVING FURTHER SOUTH With construction work moving further south along Lower Mall, access from Oberlander Lane to the north side of Lower Mall will remain open. Access from Agronomy Road will be restricted. With the change in traffic pattern, use extreme caution when driving through the USB yard. […]
Preparing (spaces) for student exams
Over the past two weeks staff with the Custodial and BOLD teams laid out 169,091 thousand exam booklets, set up 1,350 temporary desks and 1,362 chairs and ensured it all happened without a hitch.
Roofing BC magazine features our capital renewals
This past fiscal year Building Ops identified and Project Services delivered 11 roof and two skylight renewals at the Vancouver campus. Roofing BC ran an article on our approach to these capital renewals and our overall preventative maintenance strategy toward these important assets.
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Top Stories Electrical PM are now completed as part of high voltage shut downs With a new process for the Electrical PM program, we’re better able to direct our resources and ensure that critical equipment is not missed. This new process will also enable us to: Improve tracking of our effort against the assets Limit […]
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Top Stories FLOOD DAMAGE REQUIRES CONTRACTED RESTORATIONS SERVICES?–CALL CUSTODIAL SERVICES If there is a requirement for a restoration company to come in and do a clean-up of flood related damage, please contact Custodial Services. Going forward, Custodial Services will manage the contractor to do this work. NEW JOB POSTINGS ON BUILDING OPS Have you been […]
Reconciliation Pole also succeeds as a real-time construction project
Beyond the deeply symbolic meaning of the pole and the installation, the many individuals that took part in successfully managing the engineering and logistics of this project were instrumental.
Replacing our fluorescent lights with LEDs
UBC Building Operations and Energy & Water Services have teamed up with BC Hydro and the Province of BC to replace existing T8 fluorescent lights on campus with LED lights.
Repair, renew, or replace? The financial strategy for our campus assets
As buildings age their condition naturally deteriorates. During that time, we invest in maintenance, repairs, and renewals—until we ultimately replace the building with a new one. The question is, how do we define when and how much to invest before we consider replacing the building altogether?