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Top Stories   Employee Engagement Please Don’t Drive to the Holiday Lunch and Dinner This Wednesday Remember, on Wednesday December 12, is the day shift holiday lunch and the evening shift holiday dinner – both happening at Life Sciences Centre. We look forward to seeing the over 550 who have RSVP’d for this event but […]

Grab a sweater and prepare for a cooler campus

From Dec. 12, UBC will be slightly reducing campus building temperatures in Vancouver in order to conserve natural gas. Be prepared for a cooler campus and take appropriate action.

Winter is coming

While you may only now be thinking about pulling your snow shovel out of storage, Building Operations and Facilities Management staff at UBC been planning for weeks for any winter weather event that may strike the campuses.

Building Operations Weekly

Top Stories   Employee Engagement Vanpool Pilot Program Information & Sign-Up Sessions December 5 and 6 UBC, Translink and Modo are providing information regarding the Vanpool Pilot Program. Vanpooling is a great opportunity to reduce the cost to travel to work each day. It is also an opportunity to meet our sustainability goals by reducing […]

Building Operations Weekly

Top Stories   Asset Stewardship Know What To Do for Extreme Weather at UBC? Check out www.buildingoperations.ubc.ca/snow When extreme weather comes to the Vancouver campus, Building Operations is responsible for managing snow and ice. The weather at UBC can be unpredictable–as UBC has its own microclimate which can be quite different from lower lying areas. […]

Preparing for extreme weather at UBC

A message from: Andrew Szeri, Provost and Vice-President, Academic; Peter Smailes, Vice-President, Finance and Operations, Barbara Meens Thistle, Vice-President, Human Resources; Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, Provost and Vice-Principal Academic, UBC Okanagan

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Top Stories Asset Stewardship Training for Updated e-Procurement On November 20, 22 and 27 As part of the transition of Purchase Order processing from Finance to the Procurement team, we are back to using electronic requisitions in PeopleSoft as the method for requesting supplies and/or services. The heads/subheads will no longer need to send emails […]

Building Operations Opens New Custodial Centre in UBC Life Building

Building Operations Opens New Custodial Centre in UBC Life Building

Building Operations has added a third custodial deployment centre to minimize custodial travel time to buildings. It’s a big change for after 25 years at C&CP2 for day-shift, night-shift, and weekend staff.

Building Operations Weekly

Top Stories   Employee Engagement UBC Vanpool Pilot Program Anticipated Implementation January 2019 In the July 17, 2018 newsletter, we announced that Campus Planning and Translink are looking into a Vanpool Pilot Program open to all faculty and staff of UBC. Before launching the program, information sessions will be held late this November. Final pricing will […]

Building Operations Weekly

Top Stories   Asset Stewardship Winter Is Coming…Back-Up Vehicles Safely As we enter the darker winter months with more severe weather conditions, here is a reminder and tips for safely backing up vehicles. Studies by the National Safety Council have shown a disproportionate number of collisions take place when reversing, estimating that 25 percent of accidents […]