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 North Entrance of USB Yard will be closed during the ADES work along Lower Mall On Friday, March 24, the contractor along Lower Mall will be moving southward. The north entrance to USB will be closed. Access will be restricted to the south entrance. Reminder, with the south gate used both as entrance […]

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Top Stories If you park a UBC Vehicle in UEL regulated areas, you will be towed. review map and rules carefully All UBC vehicles, including Building Ops fleet, must follow the same parking regulations as the public when parking around the University Endowment Land (UEL). A UBC parking permit is not valid. Grabbing lunch in […]

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Top Stories Missed the Aquatic Centre mechanical systems presentation? Link to video presentation available We continue to improve our new building and new asset handover processes. One of the key milestones in any new building handover is getting demonstrations and training on the new systems and equipment. When we understand what we are responsible to […]

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Top Stories Reading Break provides great opportunity for preventive maintenance on the Chem C fume hoods Last week was Reading Break and we planned to make use of this downtime to get in and refurbish the fume hoods in the Chemistry C wing teaching labs. Thanks to all for this proactive work. One of our […]

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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 […]

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