Building Operations Weekly archive

Building Operations Weekly is published by email each week on Tuesday. It contains a summary of the news and events published that week to the Building Operations digital signage network. Below, organized by date in descending order, is the content of each week’s email newsletter since January 2015. Calendar events are not archived.

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Top Stories   MILLWRIGHTS SYNERGIZED WITH ESB ELECTRICAL FEEDER SHUTDOWN TO PERFORM PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE The Millwrights took advantage of the electrical feeder shutdown and scheduled maintenance on Bio-safety Cabinet Fume Hood Fans 1 – 17 for a proactive approach to preventive maintenance. These fume hoods are in critical areas where disruptions can affect research. They […]

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Top Stories Our Mission and what this means for you Our Mission answer the questions: Why do we exist as a department? What do we do? How do we do it? And who do we do it for? “UBC Building Operations proactively and cost-effectively manage the operations and maintenance of all assets on campus—creating enriching and […]

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Top Stories   SHARING OUR STORY AS CAMPUS AND ASSET STEWARDS THROUGH THE APPA SELF-ASSESSMENT REPORT For the past two years we have been talking about EAOS and what that means to enable us to move from reactive maintenance to planned proactive operations and maintenance (read more about EAOS here).  We have achieved a great […]

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Top Stories Brief lull in teaching schedules was our opportunity for proactive and preventive maintenance in Chem B Chemistry South (B-wing), is primarily teaching labs and so we took advantage of the time between teaching sessions to perform preventive maintenance on all the supply air handlers and exhaust fans for fume hoods. We cleaned heating […]

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Top Stories Convocation Ceremonies at Chan Centre May 24 – June 1 During the convocation period please refrain from disruptive work along Main Mall from the Reconciliation Pole to the Rose Garden Parkade, and along University Boulevard from the Martha Piper Pond to Alumni Centre. We want our new grads and their loved ones to […]

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