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 Job well done to those who worked on the annual feeder shutdown on June 13 Kudos to all who worked tirelessly to perform preventive maintenance on the high voltage building service switches at 8 major locations.  With the superb coordination of Marcus, Stan and Mo, the shutdown was without major hiccups. This is […]

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Top stories CUPE 116 Ratification vote results are in The CUPE 116 membership voted 73% in favour of accepting the tentative agreement reached between the Union and the University. We would like to thank all those that participated in bargaining on behalf of the Union and the Employer for their time and effort. Shared computers […]

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Top stories Bright Idea: we’re looking into replacing strobic air fans with a fanwall system Thanks to a bright idea, we are looking into replacing strobic air fan systems with a fanwall system. Maintaining and repairing strobic fans prove to be quite costly and require additional equipment rental such as a 150-ton crane for approximately […]

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Top stories Accident/Incidents are on the rise in the month of May Historically, there is an increase in accident/incidents during the summer vacation period from May to August.  Please discuss with your crew ways on how to keep the accident rate from increasing.  Anticipate and adjust to workplace hazards. Remember, safety first! Kudos to the […]

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Top stories Bright Ideas has started to work For us: 10 bright ideas so far We have received about ten ideas through our bright ideas mailbox. We’re still working on the program… but so far, our first steps are: We have an email at brightideas.buildingops@ubc.ca We have a webpage at buildingoperations.ubc.ca/brightideas Every submission gets a response directly […]

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