Category: Facilities Operations Update

WUSM facilities will temporarily be taking the elevators out of service to replace the existing flooring in the elevator cabs in MCC. The east bank of elevators will be out of service from Monday, July 25 from 6 pm until 6 am of the following day. Facilities will leave the west bank of elevators in […]

We are excited to announce that starting Monday, August 8th, Shell Café will be open and offer a variety of made-to-order grill items, soups, a fresh salad bar, grab-and-go items, fountain beverages, and bottled beverages. Their hours will be Monday-Thursday 7:00 am-2:00 pm. Please contact Director, Continuous Improvement, Lacey Luitjohan, with any questions.

We are extremely excited to announce that we are piloting a food truck program again. We will have food trucks on campus each Friday beginning on Friday, August 5. All food truck vendors are strongly encouraged to advertise on the STLFTA calendar so that you all will know who will be here each week. Please […]

One of the elevators in the Clayton Garage has been out of service recently. The encoder for this elevator has failed and there is a 16-week lead time to get the new one. We asked our elevator contractor to run a utilization rate for the elevators and found the two elevators on the south end […]

Elevator 102 will be out of service on Sunday, August 7 at 8 am for 4 hours to perform preventive maintenance. The elevator will be back on service at noon.

On Thursday, August 4th from 4 am to 7 am there will be a building wide electrical outage for 1234 Kingshighway building to install a new electrical panel for the pharmacy expansion there will be no power in this time frame. Please ensure that you save anything you may be working on Wednesday, August 3rd […]

Sent on behalf of Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Construction is underway for the new 16-story patient care tower on Kingshighway at Barnes-Jewish Plaza and the team is preparing to pour the foundation on which the building will stand. You are invited to be a part of this exciting Campus Renewal Project milestone. Complete this form by Tuesday, […]

Starting the week of July 18th, contractors will repair a few leaking windows on the north face of BJCIH facing the construction zone. The company will use the tower crane to lift a swing stage in the appropriate location and will attach it to davits on the roof to scale the building. The windows they […]

On Wednesday, July 27, starting at 7 am – 3:30 pm, Western Waterproofing will begin phase 1 of repairing the northeast corner facade and will perform demolition on that day. This will require brick removal and will therefore cause some noise and vibration that may affect nearby building occupants. The demolition will take place on […]

Due to the impacts of the pandemic and the war with Russia and Ukraine, the construction industry has had to deal with an increasing amount of material shortages, manufacturing delays, labor shortages and delivery delays. In addition, impacts have spread to other sectors, including furniture, equipment and IT. As a result, market and schedule effects […]