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Building Operations Weekly

UPDATED SAFETY PLAN AND NON-MEDICAL MASKS An updated version of the Building Operations Safety Plan has been added to the Building Operations website here: https://buildingoperations.ubc.ca/staff/ The new plan includes the Swing and Nursey spaces and important information regarding non-medical masks (Safety Plan page 4).  Please take a minute to familiarize yourself with the policies below regarding […]

New Enterprise Maintenance Management System (EMMS) Sustainment Team

As the Facilities team prepares to move forward for Planon go-live on November 2, 2020, we have been working on solutions for on-going system maintenance, support and improvements needs — also known as sustainment, to help contain costs while ensuring that the supports are in place for system users. The EMMS Sustainment team will ensure that Planon continues to meet the long-term business objectives and requirements of current and future system users.

A beautiful plaque for Professor Santa J. Ono’s reappointment

In celebration of Professor Santa J. Ono’s reappointment as President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC, the teams on Building Operations’ Sign Shop and Carpentry Shop created a beautiful plaque and presented it to President Ono.

Building Operations Weekly

Top Stories PLANON 101 FOR MOBILE IS ON CANVAS! If you’re a technician in Building Operations or Energy & Water Services, or you’re interested in Planon for mobile, you can now register and complete Planon 101 for Mobile! Visit https://wpl.ubc.ca/browse/planon/courses/planon-101-for-mobile   Planon 101 is designed to help UBC technicians get started with Planon to learn about key Planon concepts: how to access and navigate Planon; and key […]

Building Operations Weekly

STARTING TODAY: UBC REQUIRES NON-MEDICAL MASKS TO BE WORN IN ALL SHARED INDOOR SPACES ON CAMPUS Effective today, Wednesday, September 16, 2020, UBC students, faculty, staff and visitors are required to wear non-medical masks, when indoors on our campuses. Your head or supervisor will be providing you with a UBC-branded washable cloth mask for your […]

Construction office update: September project list available

The September 2020 project list and status update is now available.

Building Operations Weekly

CANVAS COURSES FOR COMPLETION BY SEPTEMBER 30TH Online training via Canvas will be an ongoing journey for everyone in Building Operations for mandatory and elective courses.   Our next two goals are to have all staff who perform a supervisory role complete the mandatory Safety Supervision at UBC course, and for all staff to complete the […]

Working in your building

The Facilities team recognize that various units in our team, by nature of their work, are required to enter different UBC buildings to carry out their task. As such, a safe work procedure to outline the measures that our workers will be following has been developed by Safety & Risk Services.

Building Operations Weekly

Top Stories WORKDAY HR 101 COURSES AVAILABLE ON CANVAS On November 2nd 2020, UBC goes live with Workday. Everyone at Building Operations will be using Workday for everyday tasks such as; requesting vacation and other absences, checking vacation and sick time balances, checking paystubs, submitting expenses, updating personal information and benefits information In preparation for Workday go-live, we strongly encourage you to familiarize […]