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On Thursday, November 7, 7-11 am, facilities will conduct an emergency power test to determine if the 1800 Kw generator can support both SIRF and SIRF-East together, along with the chillers. There will be no loss of power to the SIRF building. SIRF-East will be the only building affected by this outage. SIRF-East utilities will […]

On Sunday, November 3rd 7-11 am, facilities will be conducting an electrical outage of the entire building. The purpose of this outage is to clean the (6) 5Kv. switches located in the basement of the MIR building. In order to safely perform the required work, the utility power must be turned off. The generator will […]

On October 9th from 4 am to 7 am Air handling units 1 and 2 will be down for scheduled cleaning in the Biotechnology Center. In this time there will be limited to no air flow, heating, or cooling to the building.

On Thursday, October 10th 1:30-4:30 Pm maintenance work will be completed on the humidifier of the terminal equipment serving the NTA 452/462 suite. Although facilities do not expect any impact to the performance of the BSL3 lab as a precaution NO work shall take place in the 452/462 lab suite during the above-noted times.

On Monday, October 14th, 17th, 5-7 am, Barnes facilities will be transferring normal power to emergency power to conduct maintenance on their switchgear. The affected floors will be the 6th, 7th, and 8th. There will be a blip during the transfer. There will be three outages: Monday, Tuesday Part B, and Thursday Part B.

To support the steam tie in for the sterilizers on 10th floor construction project all the Autoclaves and sterilizers in the LER hallway floors 3-10 will be out of service. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

To support the 10th-floor fit-out construction project, we will turn on the heating to the whole 10th floor, EXCLUDING the animal holding rooms, which will maintain normal temperatures. All areas can expect to be warmer than usual on the 10th floor.

On Saturday, October 26, from 6 am to 2 pm, contractors will turn off air handlers serving floors, lower levels 2, and 9, and sections 3, 4, and 5 to make necessary repairs. During the above-noted dates and times, these areas will experience a loss of airflow and fluctuating temperatures.

On Saturday, October 19th 7 am – 5 pm contractors will turn off the air handler serving the lower level to make necessary repairs. The lower level will notice fluctuations in temperatures and airflow.

On Sunday, October 13th, 7 am – 5 pm contractors will turn off the air handler serving the lower level to make necessary repairs. During the above-noted dates and times, the lower level will notice fluctuations in temperatures and airflow.