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 Purchasing process under review We heard and we listened.  As a result, it has been recognized that the purchasing process has a great potential for savings and a positive impact in our budgets.  Discussions have begun to review and to streamline current processes. Thank you all who have provided feedback and suggestions.  Cost […]

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Top stories Submit your Town Hall questions to brightideas.buildingops@ubc.ca A lot has been changing in Building Operations over the past year—and that is certain to have created some questions. In the coming weeks were going to be hosting a series of Town Halls to share some of our progress and to answer as many of your questions […]

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Top stories Mini-baby boom in USB: Maternity leaves start soon for Denise Tang, Pearle Tuason, and Lisa Higuchi Our expectant moms are getting ready to start their maternity leaves in the coming month. Pearle will be off first on May 8th, followed by Lisa on May 15th, and Denise June 12th. Congratulations to everyone. John Owen Building […]

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Top stories Students move out April 30, watch for students April 30 is move out day for student residences and vehicles parked by residences can impact your operation: Parking and Access Control Services will have traffic control persons on the west side of Lower Mall in front of Marine Drive Building 5. This will be […]

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Top stories 2015/16 Budget: help us invest in our future by sharing your savings or revenue ideas While the senior leadership team has ideas of where we can find budget savings to help the university’s reinvestments for the 2015/16 budget, we want to know where YOU see our opportunities. You’re the closest to the work […]

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