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 Coming soon, Service Centre launches Twitter account @UBCFixMySpace UBC students and visitors have been looking for a way to easily report non-emergency service requests, and we have been looking for an easy way to collect feedback on the spaces we operate and maintain. Voila! To meet this need, we are creating a Twitter […]

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Top Stories Power Outage — a great test of our emergency response Monday’s brief power outage was terribly inconvenient for the campus but it was a great test of our emergency response. Around 11:15am power went out on the UBC campus. The VOIP phones were still working and calls were coming in to the service […]

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Top Stories Transitioning new assets from construction to operations We have talked a lot over the past year and a half about how we are improving the transition process for new buildings so that we can be better prepared to operate and maintain new facilities and we can help improve construction deficiency identification and resolution. […]

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Top Stories New Aquatic Centre opens January 23 Demonstrations at the new Aquatic Centre are happening this week and next week. Handover to Building Operations will happen once the demos are done and we are confident in the operations of the systems. Note that media are being invited to tour the new facility tomorrow, January […]

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Top Stories Custodial Delivering Exceptional Space Performance at IK Barber When we talk about our EAOS program and transitioning from reactive to proactive, we talk about how this will help the reliability of our campus and ultimately how we help spaces perform their best which creates exceptional teaching and research outcomes. This week we received […]

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