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 No parking in the new fire lane on the south side of War Memorial Gym   Building Operations staff photos now available as part of UBC’s official collection In May and June this year we worked with photographers Martin Dee and Jamil Rhajiak of Marketing & Communication to produce photos of Building Operations staff for […]

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Top Stories First Quarter budget forecasts puts us on target and allows us to hire   Our financial reports are out! The good news is that savings from salaries and materials for the first three months of our fiscal year total $125,000. As discussed in our May town halls we have a significant savings target […]

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Top Stories Bright Ideas – Ideas for Capital Improvements Needed Earlier this week UBC was granted some funds from the provincial ministry for advanced education (AVED). Building Ops has put our hand up and said that we can help spend it, so we need your ideas. We have our 5 year plan for capital improvements […]

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Top Stories Utilities Plumbers and Labour Crew save major pedestrian thoroughfare On Fri Jul 30 there was a water main break outside the Old SUB.  The Utilities Plumbers and Labour Crew worked together to promptly resolve this issue. Great teamwork! The Central UBC Lost & Found has moved. Effective Aug 4th Lost & Found will […]

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Top Stories Campus Security taking our after-hours service calls starting August 4 Historically, the Power House handled Building Operations’ urgent after-hour calls.  Because of the decommissioning of the old Power House,  Building Operations has been working with Campus Security over the last several months to prepare their department in handling these calls.  Effective Tuesday, August […]

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