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Top Stories Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer and Paul on their recent awards We’re so proud and happy that they’re getting recognition for great work. Jennifer Sanguinetti of Infrastructure Development received the Canada Green Building Council’s Volunteer Leadership Award. Paul Holt of Energy and Water Services received the International District Energy Association’s Innovation Award for […]
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Top Stories THANKS TO THE 400 BUILDING OPS PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE UBC CENSUS SO FAR We need everyone to complete the UBC Census and we’re about 50% of the way there. You can do it online from home (log in via msp.ubc.ca and then click the U Count at UBC box), or paper copies will […]
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Top Stories UBC welcomes Dr. Santa Ono as 15th President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Ono joins UBC from the University of Cincinnati (UC) in Ohio, where he has served as President since 2012. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Provost at UC. Under his leadership, UC achieved its largest […]
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Top Stories Leadership development program update: staff workshops on June 14th Following on the successful heads and sub-head meetings yesterday, there will be workshops held next week for any staff to attend. This is your opportunity to help shape the leadership training for our future so come participate. Sessions will be held on June 14th from Noon […]
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Top Stories Spring Graduation on May 25 – 27 and May 30 – June 1 Spring graduation is commencing on May 25 – 27 and May 30 – June 1. This event will place a large demand on the Rose Garden, Fraser and North Parkade between 7:30 am – 4:30 pm each day. Expect to […]
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Top Stories Learn how to rock your next interview When: Wednesday May 25 Time: 11:30 am – 12:00 pm Location: USB Conference Room 1020 Facilitator: Chris Panadero, Senior HR Associate Bring your lunch, gain skills and learn tips on how to prepare for interviews at UBC! This interactive session will focus on familiarizing participants with […]
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Top Stories Town Halls start next week with time for Q&A… so start preparing now Our Town Halls are coming. We have heard that some people would like more opportunities for Q&As. For a while we’ve been trying to get the Q&A portion to happen in our crew talks, where people can have a better […]
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Top Stories Woohoo…exams are over! It’s a time worth celebrating since we had no major issues during this session of exams. If you think back to any exam you have written, it’s a stressful time and we at Building Operations play a critical role in ensuring the logistics of these milestone events run smoothly. So…a […]
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Top Stories Sm’ART’ Car…Building Operations Vehicle as Art Often, students or professors ask the help of Building Operations with their experiments or projects, and we provide help as much as we can. Recently, we received a request from Ted Yadeta, a UBC Art History and Visual Art student, to borrow a Smart car for his […]
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Top Stories EAOS one year later…UBC supports our new direction by approving budget ask…details to in May town halls One year ago the hallways at USB were filled with your ideas to help us transition to becoming a planned operations and maintenance organization. We’ve taken these and built a plan that will work and will […]