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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High voltage crew and labourer crew working together The Utilities Electricians, Rob Schwarz, Mike Robson, Case McMaster; apprentices Mike Paley and Dariusz Jaworski work together to remove a high voltage cable from the manhole on West Mall in front of USB. With the help of Foti Alexiou, Rob Sommerfeld and Quentin Benedetti, they manage to […]
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Top Stories ________________________________________ SOFT LANDSCAPE AND LABOURERS WORK TOGETHER TO RESTORE MOA POND The entire soft landscape team took an hour and a half out of their day to take part in the restoration of the Museum of Anthropology (MoA) pond. The labour crew contributed by vigorously re-establishing the original cut of the shorelines. Rocks, […]
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Top Stories ________________________________________ WATER, STEAM AND SMOKE HAVE KEPT FOLKS BUSY THIS PAST WEEK There was a water main break between Woodward Library and the UBC Hospital last Friday which resulted in flooding of a hospital mechanical room. The break on the domestic water line fed into the steam line chamber which created a plume […]
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Top Stories ________________________________________ INTRODUCING THE REVISED NEW EMPLOYEE ONBOARDING PROGRAM ON JULY 6TH Do you remember your first day at UBC? Trying to digest a mountain of information during a full day of orientation and training isn’t easy. We know that the first day on a job can be challenging in itself without an information […]
