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 Building Ops Goes Above and Beyond to Prepare campus for exams Proactive exam room preparations With DES now heating 70% of the core campus Building Ops staff took it upon themselves to take a little extra care to ensure that exam rooms would not be adversely effected by system commissioning. FMs and custodial […]

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Top Stories UBC’s Ladner Clock Tower clock mechanism to be replaced by February A wind storm at the end of August caused electrical surges across the UBC. These surges caused electrical damage to the Ladner Clock Tower—the drive mechanism, which moves the hands on the four clock faces of the clock, has remained still ever […]

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Top Stories Building Operations celebrates the season to be jolly!   Dart Tournament — sign up with Martin by November 27th   The annual Building Operations dart tournament is just around the corner.  Sign up with Martin Varma in the Carpentry shop before November 27th.  No experience necessary — if you are a beginner you […]

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Top Stories Congratulations Mike Paley, for completing your electrical apprenticeship   We saved $292,675 in the 2nd quarter thanks to your bright ideas: We are on track to our $1.3M goal for 2015/16   Please refrain from blocking the Bookstore loading docks UBC Bookstore staff are requesting that we park our service vehicles in a […]

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Top Stories Will you be this year’s emcee at the Building Ops Holiday Lunch?   Plumbers take pride in repairing the main water station Under a tight timeline, with a large task at hand, Dave Wenzel, Paul McLaughlin, Sean Roe and Alan Zarkovic worked feverishly last October 24, to make significant repairs to the main […]

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