Category: Facilities Operations Update

The Operations & Facilities Management Department is sending this communication as a reminder about the requirements for proper furniture disposal on the School of Medicine campus. Many campus members have been dumping furniture on the docks, which has created safety and funding issues related to the disposal of these assets. The dumping is happening in […]

The 105th annual Greek Festival held by St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church will take place Labor Day weekend, Sept. 2-5. The Greek Festival chairs have graciously invited Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, and BJC Shared Services team members on the Academic Campus to the event. Festival volunteers will expedite […]

The second delivery of steel for the new Neuroscience Research Building pedestrian link is rescheduled for Tuesday, August 30th. Duncan Avenue will be closed, just west of Newstead Avenue, from 7 pm to 5:30 am tonight. For any questions, please contact Senior Project Manager, Mitch Snyder.

Sent on behalf of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The greater portion of the MDAS (in-building cellular system) infrastructure construction has been completed for the buildings listed below. On Saturday, August 27th, On Air Solutions (OAS) will “turn down” the existing “Sprint Only” in-building cellular system and “turn up” the new MDAS; the existing Sprint in-building cellular system […]

Starting August 29th, workers will demolish the Neuroscience Research Building exterior façade mock-up in the Couch lawn and restore the grounds. This will take approximately 2-3 weeks. There will be construction traffic in the food truck parking lanes Monday-Thursday during this time period. For any questions, please contact Senior Project Manager, Mitch Snyder.

Sent on behalf of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Starting September 6th, work at the Ameren substation in Hudlin Park at the corner of Clayton and Euclid avenues will entail construction barriers in Clayton Avenue and the closure of the sidewalk on the north side of Clayton (see map). Two-way traffic will be maintained on Clayton Ave. The […]

Sent on behalf of Metro Transit Metro Transit opened the Blue Line MetroLink train service and returned service to all Blue Line stations on the 46-mile light rail system on Monday, August 22. Three weeks ago, record rainfall and flooding heavily damaged the MetroLink system in the City of St. Louis and in St. Louis […]

To make improvements to the exhaust system there will be no exhaust available to the 7th floor on Saturday, September 3rd 5:00 am – 1:00 pm. This will effect fume hoods and general exhaust throughout the floor. Please cap or store any dangerous materials and close the sash on the hoods prior to the start […]

On Friday, September 2nd 6:00 am – 10:00 am exhaust fans 3 and 4 will be down for maintenance. There will be no exhaust available to the fume hoods for the duration of this outage.

Sent on behalf of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The greater portion of the MDAS (in-building cellular system) infrastructure construction has been completed for the buildings listed below. On Saturday, August 27th, On Air Solutions (OAS) will “turn down” the existing “Sprint Only” in-building cellular system and “turn up” the new MDAS; the existing Sprint in-building cellular system […]