In the event of leaks, strange smells, non functional elevators and the like. Please feel free to call 5-2550 directly and then contact me. There is no need for anyone to be a bottleneck in getting facilities out to look at a serious situations. 

For everything else, certainly give me a call to triage the situation.

Thanks!

I spoke with Mike Pound yesterday and one of the concerns from the cleaning people are the use of red bags for autoclave waste. Red bags are generally designated for incineration and are considered more dangerous than the orange bags. The cleaning people are more accustomed to the orange bags and if we can avoid misunderstanding in the future, I'd like to do so. Let's use up our current stock of red bags, but try to order the orange waste bags in the future. 

Thank you all for your attention and understanding. 

We had a glitch earlier today in the Card reader system and it appears to have been addressed.

The system should be active and functional in a few minutes. 

Sorry for the interruption. 

I got an email from Mike pound pertaining to autoclave waste. I know things are being autoclaved. Please make certain autoclave indicator tape is attached to each bag of waste prior to autoclaving.

Please see below:

The web-checkout function for the ILSB study rooms has been successfully implemented. Students are now able to reserve rooms in two hour time blocks throughout the week. Valid ID cards will be required to access the rooms after you have made the reservation.

To reserve a room, go too the ILSB website and hover over the gold navigation bar for "Teaching and Learning", there you will see the link for study room reservations. 

To help you through the process I have a short video on the announcement boards in the lobby and attached below. 

Thank you all for your patience!

We are planning a power outage for this evening at 9:00 PM. The outage will be at least 4 hours.

Please remember to turn off any sensitive equipment and vacuum pumps prior to leaving for the day. The outage is to assess the critical systems in the basement vivarium.

Thank you  all for your patience and understanding.

Contractors will be out next week Monday through Wednesday to continue work on the seals on the exhaust fans on the roof. Hopefully this will be the last time they will need to be working on the units. Air pressure will continue to be less than optimal, but this hopefully will bring us much closer to getting us normal operations with the temperature, humidity and balancing.

With the number of people coming in, I'll leave the building an a normal Monday schedule, even with the University Holiday.

Siemens was able to jump through some hoops and confirm that they would be ready for the retest of the Loss of Power Test on Tuesday, 01/21/2020 at 9:00PM.  This was really the last opportunity to perform the test prior to the Vivarium being prepped for animals.  

Please let everyone in your labs know. All sensitive electronics and vacuum pumps should be turned off at the the end of the day on Tuesday..

The loss of power test has been cancelled for now. I'll let everyone know when it gets rescheduled. 

I’ll make sure the phones get straightened out Monday, but those are unlikely related to the wireless. I have folks investigating wireless issue now, can’t give an eta just yet but we’re on it.

Sorry for the disruption.