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Building Operations Weekly

Top Stories Kudos to Rick Mitchell & Henry Chow for solving a huge problem! Roger, from Earth Sciences Building, was in need of assistance when the truck he hired, to ship equipment, was unable to get close to the loading dock off of Biological Sciences Road due to its size.  Seeking assistance from Building Operations, […]

Building Operations Weekly

Top stories Job well done to those who worked on the annual feeder shutdown on June 13 Kudos to all who worked tirelessly to perform preventive maintenance on the high voltage building service switches at 8 major locations.  With the superb coordination of Marcus, Stan and Mo, the shutdown was without major hiccups. This is […]

Building Operations Weekly

Top stories CUPE 116 Ratification vote results are in The CUPE 116 membership voted 73% in favour of accepting the tentative agreement reached between the Union and the University. We would like to thank all those that participated in bargaining on behalf of the Union and the Employer for their time and effort. Shared computers […]

Building Operations Weekly

Top stories Bright Idea: we’re looking into replacing strobic air fans with a fanwall system Thanks to a bright idea, we are looking into replacing strobic air fan systems with a fanwall system. Maintaining and repairing strobic fans prove to be quite costly and require additional equipment rental such as a 150-ton crane for approximately […]