[Entm-researchstaff] FW: 2024 Annual Steam Shutdown Notification Multiple Buildings — 7/12 to 7/21

[William K Sutton]

From: Facilities <facilities at ucr.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2024 1:30 PM
Subject: 2024 Annual Steam Shutdown Notification Multiple Buildings — 7/12 to 7/21

[UC Riverside Facilities Services logo]
Planned Shutdown Notification

DATE & TIME
Friday, July 12, starting at 12:00 pm, through Sunday, July 21
WHAT TO EXPECT
Heat and steam will be off to facilities throughout campus. This will affect building heating, hot water, sterilization, autoclave operations, and other laboratory processes.
PURPOSE UCR’s Central Plant will be conducting a routine inspection and maintenance of the steam utility distribution system. The inspection ensures continued, reliable delivery of pressurized steam and hot water for campus buildings. This is for sterilization and other laboratory processes, and climate control. July requires a minimal demand for steam, due to warmer weather and smaller campus population, and has the least impact on the campus community.
Campus boilers will be turned off to cool for two days, and work will commence on July 15. The shutdown is labor intensive, both in the Central Plant and the steam tunnels. Skilled trade staff will work 10-12 hour shifts to: shut down boilers; drain the system; make necessary repairs; reignite boilers; reintroduce high-pressure steam; check the entire system for leaks; and bring buildings back online. The work is done in an environment that has no climate control and temperatures exceed 110 degrees, 24 hours a day, in a confined space. Boilers are planned to be relit on the morning of July 21 to have steam fully restored by July 22.
LOCATION
Anderson Hall
Athletics & Dance
Batchelor Hall
Biological Sciences
Bourns Hall
Boyce East Vivarium, trailer
Boyce Hall
Boyden Lab
Chapman Hall
CHASS Interdisciplinary
Chemical Sciences
Entomology Building
Fawcett Laboratory
Fine Arts
FS Annex B
Genomics Building
Geology Building
Greenhouses
Growth Chamber Facility
Highlander Union Building, HUB – Limited availability
Hinderaker Hall
Humanities & Social Sciences
Insectary & Quarantine Facility
Life Sciences & Lecture Hall 1500
Materials Science & Engineering
Multidisciplinary Research Building, MRB – Limited availability
Olmsted Hall
Orbach Science Library
Physics Building
Pierce Hall & Pierce Annex Wing
Psychology Building
Rivera Library
School of Medicine - Education Building
School of Medicine Health Science Research Building
Science Laboratories 1
Soil Sterilization Station
Spieth Hall
Sproul Hall
Student Academic Services, SASS
Watkins Hall
Webber Hall
Winston Chung Hall
The following are not impacted:
•    Housing facilities will not be impacted.
•    HUB Dining will have a backup boiler for hot water.
•    Multidisciplinary Research Building/MRB, will have boilers to provide steam from July 16-18, 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
CONTACT
Client Support Services Team
(951) 827-4214 / facilities at ucr.edu<mailto:facilities at ucr.edu>
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