Building Operations Weekly
Top Stories Everyone can head home at 2nd coffee (1:45 p.m. for day shift) as long as campus operations are running smoothly. This will apply to custodial evening and graveyard shifts as well. MoA appreciation The Museum of Anthropology hosted a coffee and doughnut event to show their appreciation to the Yellow and […]
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Top Stories AND THE WINNERS OF THE DART TOURNAMENT ARE…. Congratulations to Tony Fabiano and Mike Kupfer!! Runners up: Erwin Santos and Benny Castres Thank you Martin Varma for organizing this fun and exciting event. Everyone had a great time. REMINDER…DESIGNATED SMOKING AREA IS AT THE BUS SHELTER BY THE YARD EXIT With the addition […]
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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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Top Stories Kudos to all who helped with the Fraser River Parkade/Longhouse Power Outage A true multidisciplined effort, power to the Fraser River Parkade and International Longhouse would not be up and running without the help of: Dan Lappin and his carpentry crew Mike Giannias and his labour crew Steve Windle and Jason Harmon in […]
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Top Stories Rat chewed cables causing power outages Labour and Electrical crews worked quickly to minimize impact of the power outage that affected the First Nations Longhouse and the Fraser Parkade. A mighty rat chewed some cables in the transformer causing the power outage at around 5:30 this morning. Crews had the power back […]
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Top Stories Labour Crew saves owl A Saw Whet Owl was injured when it flew into a window at the Ike Barber Learning Centre. Emily Reno from CTLT called Owl Rescue and protected the owl by fending off other birds until Mike Giannias’ crew arrived. Rick Mitchell and Joseph O’Driscoll rescued the owl from […]