Building Operations Weekly
Top Stories Time is Ticking! We have selected a software vendor for the TimeCard Improvement project The Building Operations TimeCard Improvement (TCI) project was undertaken in an effort to better serve our operations by eliminating/reducing the pains of our current manual, paper-based time system. The TCI vendor evaluation committee judged Kronos to be the best suitable […]
Power Outage—a great test of our emergency response
On Monday, February 6th, at 11:15 a.m., the Vancouver campus experienced a power outage. here’s how we got the campus working again.
Building Operations Weekly
Top Stories Coming soon, Service Centre launches Twitter account @UBCFixMySpace UBC students and visitors have been looking for a way to easily report non-emergency service requests, and we have been looking for an easy way to collect feedback on the spaces we operate and maintain. Voila! To meet this need, we are creating a Twitter […]
Building Operations Weekly
Top Stories Power Outage — a great test of our emergency response Monday’s brief power outage was terribly inconvenient for the campus but it was a great test of our emergency response. Around 11:15am power went out on the UBC campus. The VOIP phones were still working and calls were coming in to the service […]
New equipment and new helping hands for Snow & Ice
UBC has now purchased small brining units that can fit on our small Kubota tractors that can fit between buildings and on narrow walkways.
Help us fine-tune UBC’s new District Energy (DES) hot water system
Our ambitious conversion of UBC’s District Energy System (DES) from steam to hot water is almost complete. If you’re too hot or too cold—before you plug in a heater or a fan—we need you to tell us if something doesn’t seem typical for your building.
Building Operations Weekly
Top Stories Transitioning new assets from construction to operations We have talked a lot over the past year and a half about how we are improving the transition process for new buildings so that we can be better prepared to operate and maintain new facilities and we can help improve construction deficiency identification and resolution. […]
Building Operations Weekly
Top Stories New Aquatic Centre opens January 23 Demonstrations at the new Aquatic Centre are happening this week and next week. Handover to Building Operations will happen once the demos are done and we are confident in the operations of the systems. Note that media are being invited to tour the new facility tomorrow, January […]
Building Operations Weekly
Top Stories Custodial Delivering Exceptional Space Performance at IK Barber When we talk about our EAOS program and transitioning from reactive to proactive, we talk about how this will help the reliability of our campus and ultimately how we help spaces perform their best which creates exceptional teaching and research outcomes. This week we received […]